Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

Tubes running legal or licensed content are one thing.

Most file lockers thrive soling on indexing someones entire portfolio of work.
Several site rips have been shown here as an example and the fact that fileserve.com, filesonic.com, and a few others folded there sites to only people can download what they uploaded is direct proof they knew what they were doing was illegal.

I honestly think it takes a level of intelligence that is a fair portion above average to understand the extent of the problem, based on the peoples' response to the problem and understanding.