The campaign is fine, people that were originally enthused may not be showing up but so it is with the pirates as they aren't doing outright attacks like they were before.
Remember when they attacked GFY?
This is a steady campaign that is focused. It's just too bad only AK and a few others can see that.

Keep up the great job AK! Hopefully corporate risk departments at Visa/MC start to take action from the top down as well.

In the past few days Paypal has terminated the accounts of:

http://moviedownload.pro
http://softwaretube.org/
http://extreme-board.com/payments.php

We have also seen Paypal removed from 6 resellers and 2 file lockers.

2CO has cancelled the accounts of 5 file lockers.

Moneybookers has cancelled the accounts of 2 file lockers and 7 resellers.

I'll post a more complete update at the end of the week.

Thanks for your work AK!

Did you know that this thread has the second highest number of views? It's only after the official statement from epass thread when they imploded.

Lets bump this back up

That's a lot of views. Sounds like a lot of people missing paypal checks too.

And a lot of servers not getting paid.

AK is showing Pirate's weak link, money flow. Let's hope others outside porn take notice.

A bump before bedtime.

Excellent news.

How many sites have you closed down operating now? Must be loads.

Keep fighting the good fight!

Question is how many checks for piracy has he stopped? Guessing lots! :thumbsup

I wonder if this thread gets so many views because content producers like what he is doing, or people that make money from piracy hate it?

Keep fighting the good fight AK :thumbsup

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I think this is what causing so much Anti Fighting Piracy posts.

It's pretty easy for someone with knowledge of how piracy works to put up a file Locker. Or run a forum supporting one. Who knows what some here really do?

Asking this question was a real thread killer! :1orglaugh

Everyone may continue saying how AK is wasting his time now. :thumbsup

he actually didn't 'stop' any checks. he only 'delayed' it for 180 days. They'll still get paid, and they move to a real processor other than paypal, and it's business as usual.

:2 cents:

I reported this before. TOday I tried again and I still can not send a message in this contact form:

http://stopfilelockers.com/contact-a...a-enquiries-2/

At send, I get "Failed to send your message. Please try later or contact the administrator by another method."

So I tried 3 different emails, 2 different IP address, and 3 browsers (ie9, ff15, chrome) and got same result. Shortened topic and content as "test" and still failed...

We're receiving emails through that email contact form, I'll look into it again. It may have something to do with the caching that our cloud front end does.

He stopped em for 180 days! :thumbsup

We've been operating for 66 days, have not shut off all forms of payment processing for all sites so of course not many have failed completely. However we have disrupted piracy and will not stop until these sites lose ALL forms of payment processing and ad network support.

Our aim is to remove all forms of monetization for file lockers.

Given that many replies in this thread have been anti our efforts I would imagine that file lockers operators watch this thread like a hawk, in fact we have seen evidence to suggest exactly that.

We do not believe we are wasting our time. Anybody who thought this would be over in a few weeks is delusional. This is a sustained long term effort that is costing money, time and resources to run.

Paypal is able to "fine" merchants who are repeat offenders against Paypal's AUP. In other words in some cases these accounts will NOT be paid out and in those cases Paypal provides the funds to charitable organisations such as the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children.

Netload.in have been terminated by Paypal.

"The recipient is currently unable to receive money"

ALL HAIL THE KING!

FileSonic have been in trouble most of this year, it was only a matter of time before they went.

There's some current mitigation taking place against some file lockers which started recently and will continue for some time.

yeah yeah yeah
a real processor like
http://sibsoft.net/forum/the-truth-a...cam-t5058.html

LMAO:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orgl augh

In 180 days their debts will have grown and who knows if the upload monkeys will get paid.

When Paypal is taken out, the next processor probably with stricter rules comes in. And there could be bigger processing fees. If you're going to fuck around with file lockers processing, might as well earn from it.

POSOnline have a nice anti-Paypal message at the bottom of their home page.

In any case, POS Online will end up closing up shop, we've got special plans for them.

you take them one by one
and it's so lovely!

It's interesting to see that hotfile.com is completely off the radar for the SFL project. Being previously one the worst offenders, after series of legal battles in US, they employed several methods to prevent copyright infringements, and seem to have no problems at the moment. It means that there are indeed legal models for a classic(focused on sharing files, and not storing like dropbox) file locker operations. Just kill repetitive infringement accounts, react on DMCA complaints quickly, and prevent reported files from being uploaded again by storing and comparing md5-hashes.

And they also use DFP for videos and music if I'm not mistaken.

While we understand that there is a perception that some sites are not receiving attention, the fact is that nothing could be further from the truth.

We do not discuss our targets in advance of them being dealt with unless strategically imperative for us to do so and there are many different reasons why some sites may take longer than others to deal with.

While I am not commenting on Hotfile.com, I can say that in some cases the investigations required to acheive a result can be extremely lengthy and the body of evidence required is sometimes huge. There are also other issues at play in some cases including third party investigations.

As I said, we do usually do not reveal targets until they are dealt with and we do not discuss operational matters, so for the moment I would suggest that you simply watch this space.

megashare seems to have closed & redirected to their attempt of a 'legitimate re-creation'. same old scammers and pirates behind it though.

also uload.to had their paypal closed it seems.

the big hosts seem to be finding ways to continue, usually shady payment processors nobody has ever heard of.

Those processors will be demanding more from them. The time will come to move onto them and the CC Companies.

Uploaders are in despair about Netload over at WJuntion.

Meanwhile Netload are saying they have "technical issues"


Netload are misleading their Uploaders for some reason, that Paypal error message only happens when your account is restricted.

MegaShare's new business JustCloud.com have had their Paypal account terminated tonight.

New kids on the block terabit.to have had their account terminated by Paypal.

New piracy threat ( a site which may have become a problem ) FileBand.com have had their Paypal account terminated.

Edit: FileBand.com have also had their Payza account terminated leaving them with no payment methods at this time.

Can you elaborate more on this? It appears that even though fileband.com wasn't a problem and may not have had anything to do with piracy at all that you still went ahead and targeted them? What made them a threat? Affiliate program?

I thought your goal was to target piracy...not any site which might not have anything to do with piracy now but could in the future.

Are you suggesting the files hosted by FileBand.com were all original uploaded by the rights holder ?

Nice edit. Let me change it up so that it included your original post.

As per your post, they were not a problem but could have been, which is why you went after them. Had they been a problem, which would mean they contributed to piracy, then you would have clearly labelled them as such. I'm giving you the chance to clear it up.

As for your "troll" comment. There is no need for name calling. I've never called you names and I would like to think that at this point in our lives we are able to have a meaningful conversation without hurling insults...But then again maybe you haven't hit that level of maturity yet.

We've found thousands of infringements on FileBand.com

They could have been a problem as they were gaining traction and could have become much bigger.

Gaining traction isn't really a huge deal. You've had processing for larger sites terminated. The fast they did have thousands of infractions would mean the site was a problem and not on its way to becoming one. None the less, good job, i guess.

fileband still using paypal
 

are you sure they were terminated by PP.
Still seem to work fine using [email protected]

They weren't working an hour ago, however if they are now they will be dealt with again.

Poor fellas. Another village in India will go without food tonight.

FileBand.com have been terminated (again). That's twice in two and a half hours.

Hahaha that's nice, the most telling phoenix paypal account name I've ever seen :1orglaugh :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Carrot.org an e-wallet system which used Paypal to fund e-purse accounts has been terminated by Paypal. They were happily accepting payments for FileShoppe.net and other file lockers.

shazaam!

That was a quick one.
If only rest of industry gears up to take action on some of remaining pirate sites, it will be all over in next 2 months at the most.

We could definitely use more support.

As things stand all work is done by volunteers and our finances could be much better than they are now, we run pretty close to the bone.

Think of what we could do if we were able to employ staff on the project.

Found this through another webmaster forum.

http://bitshare.com/premium.html

We know BitShare all too well, they are the same people as run FreakShare.

We're working hard to get their payment processing shut down however both are large sites and it takes time.