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Old 10-21-2012, 10:32 PM  
johnnyloadproductions
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Originally Posted by beaner View Post
Do you think it might be easier to go after the forums which faciliate the links to the filelockers? Without the links they won't get the traffic and they (filelockers) will be forced to promote their own sites which will open them up to vulnerability.
Remember that indexing links is rarely prosecuted. Granted the case in the UK http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_O'Dwyer

with TVshack.net

Hosting the content is the illegal part, that's why some of these forums get away with it. The file lockers just get away with it because of the DMCA loophole. I bet half of file lockers are bootstrapped by the owners uploading everything they've ever downloaded and then getting it off the ground with affiliates.
Hard to tell without detailed logs, and who's going to do that without fear of incriminating themselves?
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