John Adami, operator of OTEUpload (site now closed) and FileHaste (having payment processing problems) sent a DMCA for the Stop File Lockers site. In it he made the following claims.
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The links are screenshots of our copyrighted web design and other features of our site that are copyrighted. It is against our terms of service as well to take screenshots without the consent of our company and place them on outside websites. There are other images that are infringing on the website as well we have sent DMCA Requests to the website prior to this and the links and images were not removed so we see the next step to send it to you here.
Because of these outrages claims on this website our business has suffered and unfortunately we have been forced to close our doors on this company. We would like to see as much as possible done to this infringing site.
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Obviously we will file a counter notice however there is some irony in a site hosting thousands of titles which are all copyright infringing complaining of copyright infringement, especially when there are no grounds for such a complaint.
Everyone may remember a few pages back in this thread the panicked emails to us trying to set up a deal in order to save OTEUpload.
The new venture of this crowd, FileHaste.com, has already lost some forms of payment processing and we are well advanced toward shutting down their methods of paying uploaders.