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Originally Posted by FShoppe
It is unfair to say they are on our site. On our servers? Sure. But to call us pirates because copyright material has existed on our server is a bit much.
Are the guys at media fire pirates? I would bet that they have more copyright material than us by a factor of a million!
Content is user generated. Just as this forum is. The owners of this website is not responsible for it's users comments. Likewise, it is unreasonable to expect they monitor every single post. They must be informed of any breach of their own rules.
We WILL remove content from our servers if it breaks our TOS. We are not pirates. We have been more than compliant. We have been proactive. Which is more than I can say for AK and your good self.
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For the record, MediaFire is an infringing site and we're going after them too. The same applies to RapidShare. Neither are legitimate businesses and the business model is based upon the theft of content from others. Our goal is to deprive them of funds and cause them to shut down.
However this isn't about them, it's about you and the fact that you are a pirate.
It seems your "user generated content" is so well managed that you have sorted it by category, genre and long descriptive file names. It also seems your "users" have created folders in directories on your servers to house this categorised material.
A nice archive of literally thousands upon thousands of instances of piracy, examples:
Essential Buddhism
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Budd.../dp/0671041886
Book $11.95 on Amazon, Illegal download from FileShoppe is 73 cents.
Basic Neurochemistry, 8th Edition
http://store.elsevier.com/Basic-Neur...9780123749475/
Book $147.95 from Specialist Book Stores, Illegal download from FileShoppe is $1.99
Everything in the archive is infringing, none of it is original works uploaded by the rights holder.
You're engaged in wide ranging, commercial piracy on a mammoth scale. Ripping off publishers, music studios, movie studios, adult content producers, game studios and anyone else whose content you can illegally monetize.
Thousands and thousands of infringing files, all categorised and archived on your servers in directories made by you.
When we say you are hosting and profiting from thousands of infringing files we mean that you're a pirate and you can come here and bleat about how clean you are but you're no different from every other common parasite who complains that we're hurting their legitimate business model.