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No they weren't, we sampled them, don't assume that we haven't done extensive investigation into your site, because we have. We know much more than we have published.
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I find that hard to believe. You don't seem to know much at all. And those links were mostly dealt with before. They are certainly all dealt with now!
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You can't come here with half baked excuses and expect them to fly, we are not amateurs, we forensically investigate sites and ensure that all of our reports will stand up to the scrutiny of legal teams if necessary.
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You certainly sound like a lot of bark, but where's the bite. All words but no substance.
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The difference between your operation and the operations of these major web hosting companies is that they do not incentivise their hosting, so people can't get paid to download from the host by the host. They also do not have a majority of infringing content.
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You do realize that FileShoppe is a digital sale platform? The whole point is for content providers to sell their stuff in order to MAKE money right? We don't incentivise file sharing. We encourage file selling. Selling files is the only way we can make money. And we take a very reasonable fee, unlike many other providers offering 'similar' services.
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I would like you to show us a list of examples of original files, uploaded by their creator and being monetized. Show us examples of rights holders using your system to earn money for their work. I'm pretty sure you have very few examples compared to the thousands of examples of infringement that we have.
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This is a bit of a joke. I have already answered this and provided a number of links showing original content being sold. As for your claim of THOUSANDS of examples of infringing content, please do share it. I'de like to see how many files you can actually find still on our system.
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Does Carrot still accept Paypal ?
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No they do not.
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I'll tell you what more can be done. Immediately institute a policy making it an AUP violation to post any link to any warez or piracy forum, blog or index and accept reports from us and delete all of those links.
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We already have an AUP that prohibits the use of our service for copyright infringement, and the point of my coming to this forum is to inform you all how to contact us, and cooperate to the fullest extent.
As links being posted on 'warez' forums, how exactly do you suggest we police this? Through reports? And why not let a copyright owner post their own links/content on Warez forums if the result is they get paid for what is theirs.
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Provide us with complete back end access to your systems and allow us to audit your whole operation at random times.
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Who is 'us'? You? I'm sure we can arrange some read only access to what information we do have for auditing purposes. But it certainly won't be to you. Perhaps an organization with actual authority. Or a person who has a little more respect for others. Besides, you claim to know a lot but I'm not seeing evidence of such. And if you had access to our back end, you probably wouldn't believe what you saw.
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Halfpint, I know from the sidelines it looks like we are giving FileShoppe a hard time but you don't know what we know about them. We're more than willing to work with the management of file locker services to bring them into compliance, however in this case FileShoppe is being disingenuous and appealing for public sympathy with lies.
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We're not appealing for public sympathy. We are here in a show of good faith so that if our services result in your copyright material being illegally shared, we are here to take it down. You haven't once contacted us to take down any material. In fact, NO ONE HAS. Just ask us to remove content if you find it, and it will be done. Don't believe me, TRY IT! What do you have to lose? Your dignity for totally screwing up? Don't worry, you didn't have much to begin with (but I'll give you some for at least TRYING to fight the good fight).
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FileShoppe was set up with the intention to make money from the booming market for western copyright material in China.
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Untrue but actually an excellent idea!
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By using a micropayment system, Carrot, they thought they could take small micro payments for individual files rather than an outright membership fee for a period of unlimited downloading.
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If you look at other systems that small content producers have to sell their goods like Chrome store, iTunes, or whatever else is available, the fees they charge are enormous. CarrotPay is designed for SMALL transactions. We created a store to sell files of small value. What's nefarious about that?
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Unfortunately because our operations against FileShoppe are still ongoing I cannot add more, except to say that FileShoppe has already demonstrated considered willingness to knowingly profit from infringing content and this belief extends beyond Stop File Lockers but also other rights holder groups and payment processors.
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I'll be surprised if you know where our servers are hosted, much less anything of actual interest. Why are you so against requesting files to be taken offline? If this is your attitude towards file hosts THAT DO what you are saying, it's no wonder they are still operating, since they aren't getting any take down requests.
I'm sorry but you're loosing the good fight. Take a page from Nate Glass. He boasts sending out many a take down request, and I believe with some success. You should try it!