Originally Posted by JimmyStephans

Simple thinking answers the questions about filelockers hurting the business.

1- They are hugely profitable while selling your content and to sell that content they are accepting the very same credits cards we all wish would be used on our own sites. Filelocker users are customers - they have cards and money (but buy from filelockers to get tons of content cheap).

2- If filelockers didn't make good money from their business model (99% piracy) why are they there and why do they keep fighting back when they lose a payment system?

If it was chump change they make - wouldn't they just go do something else once they lost a method to collect chump change?