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Originally Posted by UploadMonkeyHacker
You have to ask yourself the question, why are people paying for file lockers, tubes, camsites and not for my content? In my opinion this is the most important thing, even more important than asking yourself why people pirate your content, because that's obvious, they're making money from it.
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Simple. You can get A LOT of content very cheap from a file locker, albeit pirated.
The missing part of the equation here is that content is very expensive to produce, of course if you sell pirated content it's going to be 100% profit.
One $10 file locker membership can give you access to more than billions of dollars worth of content. Don't believe me ? How much do you think it's cost to produce the biggest movies, software titles, games, tv shows, porn and so on ? The producers of these digital products need to recoup a profit from their products in order to stay in business.
Re-investment in development by software companies in the US alone is several billion dollars. None of that would happen if everyone just paid $10 for a file locker "all you can eat" membership.
As I said, the only way infringing file locker operators make money is to do so on the backs of others and by exploiting the fact that many people think it's ok to steal.
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I don't have a problem. AK has a problem. Making money misleading you on one side, destroying legitimate businesses on the other side. He doesn't care about infringing or non-infringing file lockers. He will go after them all, as long as he can show you results of payment processor terminations. AK is even accepting donations from people that don't want him to target them. And I can't stand this greedy fucker.
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1. We're not making money, we're operating at a loss. I know you guys see a few thousand dollars as a lot of money however I have outlined the costs of doing this work before.
2. Name one, just one, non infringing site we have gone after. You can't, because every site we have gone after has been infringing.
3. DownloadNoLimit.com contacted us wanting a partnership in the past few days. We haven't accepted because the service and what they do is toxic. We do not accept any money from any organisation that runs illegal sites.
4. None of the sites that we have impacted would have had a problem had they followed the law. The fact is the every site we have targeted has either (a) hosted infringing content and paid people to upload infringing content; or (b) not complied with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act; or (c) hosted illegal content such as child pornography; or (d) provided direct support to a site which falls into one or more of these categories.
We don't shut down sites, or impact their payment providers, if they comply with the law.