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And I repeat what you seem to have missed - 200 000 (!) artists and labels are getting royalties from Spotify. That amounts to probably half if not more of all people who own rights to music in the entire world. That's what you call the overwhelming majority of non-infringing uses. For any infringing song that may occasionally slip through every now and then, they can show that staggering number of legit "uploaders".
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We DO pro actively remove content. Hence most of the links posted here were already dead. And now they are ALL dead thanks to the reports some of you had made.
As I said, it is OBVIOUS that certain material is infringing on someone elses copyright. If we see 'STAR TREK EPISODE 1' or 'EXPENDABLES 2', and notice the LARGE file size, this of course rings alarm bells and we remove them. This discourages people from uploading further material hence the small number of files actually hosted on our servers, and the low traffic rank on Alexa. If we were hosting files available for downloads, do you not think we would get more hits?
But we're not going to check every little MP3 file. Particularly if they are never or rarely downloaded, or have an obscure file name. Take that AV3 file for example. How are we to know what it is? It has an obscure file name... do you want us to download it, extract it, view it, track down the creator, and ask if the person who uploaded is authorized to do so? I don't think that's reasonable. If someone finds it, they should report it. Simple as. If you can't be bothered to report these things, then you are just as responsible! If you can't be bothered to protect your own content, why should anyone else?
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The question is, what you can show in the way of legitimate uses of your service? Just show us legit users who're uploading materials that they own, it shouldn't be that hard to find them if what you tell about the nature of your service is true. I tried to find something that may appear to be legit at fileshoppe through Google but failed. But maybe I did it wrong?
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We host files, not websites. We don't note down the websites of which their content is sold. But here is a list of files from one of our bigger users.
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mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/UBUcqwNdWpvgbv10m4O-wPo/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+01.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/3OCCVIUxiIC6bzdb*TqMcMU/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+02.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/3OCCVIUxiIATEDh2uDnKdsQ/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+03.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/E1z7gKFoSesBFPYubzQ4j8c/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+04.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/E1z7gKFoSes0z-o9FfjRB8Y/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+05.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/2UHIxmYL*aDEKu07FztTzcE/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+06.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/7HTeAZZGmdMPRVpIjJVu9sc/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+1+Track+07.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/2dD77OP9nnQ-dLNQJOvdpG0/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+02.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/2dD77OP9nnQ-dLNQJOvdpG0/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+03.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/cQYdHBaJ51SZZ0kr4LzRH2w/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+04.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/WdccgGA8wJRkXutZy2oAfNg/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+01.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/cQYdHBaJ51TTPtWSWtKWMQA/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+05.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/ZC9kl9jeVNTT7SK6dI9MHwM/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+06.mp3
mercury.fileshoppe.net/file/LqYd*UzPYtfnoSA*2z2TWw4/%E7%A6%AA%E7%87%88Disc+2+Track+07.mp3
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Their website is dbi.org.hk/web/index.htm
They have hundreds more if you like.
Like I said, most of our users are in HK and China so you may have difficulty finding links in Chinese.