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Originally Posted by ottopottomouse
Those sort of sites are collectively like a hydra though. Chop off one head and two more appear.
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yep and there are companies from within our industry who are starting new ones up - the affiliate programs are becoming slicker.
for legal reasons none of the file hosting sites have an index or search engine to find what's on their servers - they let others like Google and Filestube do the dirty work.
arghhhhh - i could spend all day doing nothing but dealing with these sites. Oron is the one that is fucking with me the worst and I would love to sue - I will be following this case closely to see if it's worth suing. if they dig deeper they will discover that the file hosts are also buying up forums and blogs. the little thieves who do all the uploading will switch file hosting companies for a better deal. i've seen a guy who is one of the biggest Japanese video uploaders change the file hosting company he uses a bunch of times - once a file hoster becomes big it works against them, most of the surfers who download an uploader's files will already have a premium membership so the uploader doesn't get his % of a premium membership.