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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
The smaller one's, as I said, were set up for the sole purpose of content theft. From the sounds of it, this can be easily proven. I doubt they could show a lot of legitimate long time users. In RS case, I bet they can.
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This is pretty accurate, there is a very clear line between the ones that are trying to run a legit business and those that are just fronts proliferating theft.
For example, I've had some content appear on Rapidshare occasionally, but I send one DMCA and within a day they take it down. They don't pay users, they block the files from being reuploaded and it generally is a very minimal issue. Then there are people like 1hostclick that ignores all takedown requests and would only remove things after Paypal got on them and it would take over a week. Even losing Paypal they are still a pain and it's even harder now to get things removed. I am sending along to their host, now which is, of course...wait for it...LEASEWEB! The biggest facilitators of these illegal practices. They also process with Paypal.