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Originally Posted by RegUser
By not paying upload monkeys some sites have bought themselves enough time to recoup script cost but still, I expected to see the field riddled with corpses.
Hasn't happened yet.
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There is a fair number of them that are dead already, such as:
http://www.vidhuge.com
http://www.vidbox.net/
http://www.deditv.com/
http://www.supermov.com/
http://www.freakmov.com/
http://www.royalvids.eu/
http://www.mooshare.biz/
http://www.videokoo.net/
http://www.ultrafiles.com/
http://www.flashstream.com/
http://www.filereactor.com/
http://www.azushare.net/
http://www.filestat.com/
http://www.shareupload.net/
http://www.shareupload.com/
http://www.1hostclick.com/
Even more of those who are formally still online but either do not have any payment options or do not pay uploaders, such as:
http://www.pigsonic.com/
http://www.squillion.com/
But of course there's still plenty of those who are active and keep stealing, some of the reasons why:
1. There is the absurd amount of them thieving things around - 500 file lockers by the very least estimate, most likely more than that. Taking care off all of them will take time.
2. Many pirates are extremely resilient and protective of their income - most of them are really unimaginative or outright dumb persons, often living in some fucked up countries, and stealing is the only way for them to ever make it big in this life. When they get a taste of these easy money that they can make just by starting a file locker using standard scheme that doesn't require any thought or imagination, it is getting way harder to stop them because many of them will go at length to protect these miraculous money and to keep them pouring in.
You just love how pro-piracy press is calling them "innovators" who somehow "suffer" from the "draconian" copyright laws that protect "outdated" business models for evil copyright holders. While in reallity none of said "innovators" have a single original idea of their own - unlike people they're stealing from.
3. Paypal isn't the only payment processor around. There are many others and it will take time to get all of them on board (or dealt with accordingly if they do not cooperate).
The bottomline is that despite there's already a noticable effect, it will take several more months to destroy file lockers ecosystem completely. And even longer for the ad supported piracy.