Originally Posted by WDF

Anyone that believes there is not a shitload of money in the rogue file locker business is either very poorly informed or just out right clueless.

These people make mad money, scam the users, close and return with a new $10 domain to do it again. Some of them do not even spend money on the XFS Pro platform they use to operate. Ad Networks love them lots of traffic and imprints, some of them have figured out how to keep AdSense on their sites for extended periods and draw payments from Google.

How many of you would like $20 or $30K a month from ads on your sites?
Can you imagine 1 complaint I heard from 1 of these guys was he took in $30K from AdSense but had to pay over half of it to his users!

You only need to spend some time reading their posts to realize they pay people a few bucks an hour to build traffic and back links. They get tons of traffic that they can heavily monetize. There are several income streams from a file host site. You need to study and grasp the way the cash flows with these people. When you do you begin to understand that the cash flow is the most vulnerable place to attack.

Take away the money and most of the people uploading stolen content will disappear.