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Originally Posted by AdultKing
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This is Dutch hosting provider; now this is interesting that so many piracy it is hosted in the The Netherlands (even Megaupload was), so ther emay be a migration, into where?
Quite different from USA where hardly hosting it is liable for anything: "The unlawful characteristics of the (activities on) SumoTorrent were evident. Moreover they were obvious to XS Networks? the verdict reads.
It is also interesting for the non-anonymity: The Court also ordered XS Networks to hand over all personal information they have on the operator of SumoTorrent or pay a penalty of 10,000 euros a day.
So as an update there is 4 "issues" in run a pirate site for profit:
1) Affiliate uploaders: Paypal lost within days; Visa / Mastercard via rogue pages also unstable.
2) Some hosting providers (dutch only for now?) will be fined and forced to tell the pirate site operator's name and address.
3) Some courts (in USA) will force advertising networks to stop deliver adverts to pirate sites.
4) Domain names, there was Enom and others hit by courts, but I think this is not relevant as the previous 3 as to change into strange tld on strange mantainer it is easy.
Also if you are very big as it was Megaupload, you may get federal agents enter your home from windows like in a movie.