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TisMe · 11-26-2014, 12:40 PM

Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents
Senator tells Visa and MasterCard to stop serving ?cyberlockers?
Sen. Patrick Leahy says 30 named locker sites have "no legitimate purpose."

by Joe Mullin - Nov 26 2014, 11:50am CST

The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent letters to the two leading credit card companies, asking them to stop serving 30 Web storage services, including Kim Dotcom's Mega, that were called out in an earlier report attacking Internet "cyberlockers."

"The cyberlockers listed in the NetNames report (PDF) bear clear red flags of having no legitimate purpose or activity," wrote Sen. Patrick Leahy in letters addressed to the CEOs of MasterCard and Visa. 29 of the 30 sites accept Visa and MasterCard, and some of them bear the credit companies' logos, which "lends the sites a harmful imprimatur of legitimacy," stated Leahy.

"I ask MasterCard to swiftly review complaints against those cyberlockers and to ensure that payment processing services offered by MasterCard to those sites, or any others dedicated to infringing activity, cease," the senator wrote in the letter (PDF) to MasterCard. The wording in the letter to Visa is nearly identical.

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hadden · 11-26-2014, 05:39 PM

The two leading cases of antitrust if any ever existed.

arock10 · 11-26-2014, 07:33 PM

Interesting though I have no idea how interesting

Captain Kawaii · 11-26-2014, 08:40 PM

Senate going after filelockers
Russia going after piracy sites
China going after financial refugees...

Shit something is up.

AdultKing · 11-26-2014, 09:32 PM

They key to the commercial piracy problem is to take the money away.

Visa and MasterCard process millions of dollars in illicit payments for file lockers every month. This needs to stop.

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TisMe Confirmed User Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 1,719	Senator tells Visa and MasterCard to stop serving ?cyberlockers? Law & Disorder / Civilization & Discontents Senator tells Visa and MasterCard to stop serving ?cyberlockers? Sen. Patrick Leahy says 30 named locker sites have "no legitimate purpose." by Joe Mullin - Nov 26 2014, 11:50am CST The head of the Senate Judiciary Committee has sent letters to the two leading credit card companies, asking them to stop serving 30 Web storage services, including Kim Dotcom's Mega, that were called out in an earlier report attacking Internet "cyberlockers." "The cyberlockers listed in the NetNames report (PDF) bear clear red flags of having no legitimate purpose or activity," wrote Sen. Patrick Leahy in letters addressed to the CEOs of MasterCard and Visa. 29 of the 30 sites accept Visa and MasterCard, and some of them bear the credit companies' logos, which "lends the sites a harmful imprimatur of legitimacy," stated Leahy. "I ask MasterCard to swiftly review complaints against those cyberlockers and to ensure that payment processing services offered by MasterCard to those sites, or any others dedicated to infringing activity, cease," the senator wrote in the letter (PDF) to MasterCard. The wording in the letter to Visa is nearly identical. Continued... Senator tells Visa and MasterCard to stop serving ?cyberlockers? \| Ars Technica

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arock10 Confirmed User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 6,218	Interesting though I have no idea how interesting __________________ Sup

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hadden So Fucking Banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 1,440	The two leading cases of antitrust if any ever existed.

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Captain Kawaii So Fucking Banned Industry Role: Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 6,748	Senate going after filelockers Russia going after piracy sites China going after financial refugees... Shit something is up.

11-26-2014, 09:32 PM	#5
AdultKing Raise Your Weapon Industry Role: Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Outback Australia Posts: 15,605	They key to the commercial piracy problem is to take the money away. Visa and MasterCard process millions of dollars in illicit payments for file lockers every month. This needs to stop.