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Join Date: Dec 2005
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The people stealing your content are at war over the right to steal your content
Okay this is a little bit strange.
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Dear *******,
You have received a new private message at Perved the free porn forum from Fourtytwo, entitled "Important Info - read now".
To read the original version, respond to, or delete this message, you must log in here:
http://perved.com/private.php
This is the message that was sent:
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Dear members,
As you might know, some time ago the account of one of our mods was cancelled and a 4 digit payout withheld. The money was intended to fund server and content. The company doing this was FILESONIC. After a week of getting no answers and finally setting an ultimatum, FILESONIC issued a statement.
"We do not want of your business on FileSonic.com. You have uploaded and promoted Underage Content and we have a zero tolerance policy regarding this."
*Really?*
Filesonic _activly protects_ the copyright of underage sites like Kailyn-Teenmodel.com. According to the site the model is 13. They help this webmaster to make money! Interesting double standards, also from a legal point of view, as you will see further down the page.
The files they complain about origin from a perfectly legal site - and filesonic does not deny that. Today, they even named other files then before. Changing reasons, same result: After having sold their accounts to many of our members, they are not interested anymore in new accounts (the don't make money with that, only renewlas make money, as they don't share them with perved.com).
More then a week after complaining, May 4th, they finally donated the money they had not paid out, acting like a dealer who throws away the crack before the cops arrest him. No loss for them, they had to pay it anyway. But they had never donated it if we had not insisted again and again to not keep it.
Also, we found out that Filesonic statics should be taken with extreme caution.Either noone wants these links, or not all downloads are counted. Also, there is clear evidence that membership sales have not been counted. 4 perved members bought liftetime memberships, but only 1 showed up in the statistics (member sent us the transaction-numbers to verifay that)
Now, look at this: In April, Filesonic payed 80% of earnings, plus 25% bonus, plus 5% to site owners. *This makes up for 106 %!!*. If something sounds to good to be true, it most likely is....
If this wasn't bad enough, FILESONIC tries to blackmail us. They don't want us to tell you what happened, so they wrote us this:
"If you wish to go public, we will also go public with this screen capture of a donation we made of your earnings http://www.filesonic.com/sonic-preview/1292011. We are not afraid "Mr. JBwannabe" aka "OldBlue" aka "Miket587" ... We can and will forward your information to authorities if you wish to go that way."
So, going to the authorities does not depend on legal standards, but on the fact THAT WE GO PUBLIC. That's plain blackmail. If we would allow that once, we would sell our souls.
Well guys, imagine this company gets a visit from the film industry... guess if they report your data... they most likely will!
Filesonic, there is nothing to hide, so we go public ourselfs. The content posted was legal, and the authorities are much more interested in your business then in the sets you deleted.
A Hoster that is a risk for our members cannot been tolerated. For that reason, we had to permanently ban FILESONIC. We are sorry about this, but we had no choice, and no way to resolve the issue could be found. We ask you to inform your friends on other boards. Give them a warning. Post it in blogs. Send it on Facebook and Twitter. Post it in the newsgroups: Let the world know.
We know there are problems on other boards as well, so we will work together on this.
AND we encourage everyone to backup their data via remote upload and CANCEL their account.
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Make of it what you will. I just find it amusing that somehow there is a legal conflict between two entities who have absolutely no right to distribute or profit off the content over which they are arguing??? I don't know. But it is kind of interesting that these forums are getting into bed more and more with the filehosters? Does anyone understand this? |