Originally Posted by AdultKing

There is a common misconception held by some people in this industry that file lockers aren't a huge threat. The fact is they are. The largest of them are making millions of dollars a year by charging people to access stolen content in massive amounts. They pay uploaders a portion of that money but the bulk of a file lockers finances is pure profit.

Recently a large file locker offered a bucket load of money to me to help them look cleaner and help them regain their Paypal account. When that offer was rejected a personal threat was made.

In the Oron case an unbelievable amount of money was frozen and it's likely there was much more hidden away elsewhere.

There are tens of thousands of sites linking to infringing files on file lockers and there are some big sites with massive amounts of traffic offering file locker search engines that allow people to find complete site-rips in seconds and then download an entire site worth of content for a few dollars, thus making it unnecessary to join the site to see the same content.

There is no doubt that free porn via tubes is a challenge to the traditional affiliate model and to paysites in general. However the fact is that compared to the file lockers, torrents and USENET there if relatively little piracy on the larger tubes (with a few exceptions).

It's important to separate the model of free porn (as on tubes) and stolen content (on file lockers). Sure, you'll always find some stolen content on tubes, but not on the massive scale found on file lockers and torrent sites.

As for an expanded role for this project, there are many different things I'd like to be doing. However we do not have the resources to solve all of the adult industry's problems at once.

The Stop File Lockers project has a way to go yet, I am already pushing hard over USENET. As for torrent sites, I have a plan to start attacking them, however the Stop File Lockers project needs to stem the bleeding to file lockers first.