Mediafire now profiting from copyright infringing downloads, sort of

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Exterminator

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Life is not easy if you are running a web hosting service that users from all over the world can use to host files on. While you certainly get your fair share of users who upload private files to the servers, or files that they make available to a limited audience, others use cloud hosting services like Mediafire to spread copyright infringing files.

Most file hosts react to these downloads when they receive DMCA requests to take down those files. Recently, file hosting sites have started to become pro-active. Mega for instance runs scripts to automatically invalidate links it finds on sharing sites. According to Mega, this is done to protect the privacy of its users.

Mediafire, another popular file hosting website, recently began to become pro-active as well. The site scans its public downloads for copyright infringing materials and if it finds any, makes them either unavailable or replaces the public download with a buy it now button that leads to online shopping sites like Amazon.[...]

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imsoadude

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Thats pretty smart on their part, not only are they doing their part legally they were smart enough making money doing so.
 

3link9

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Even though they are doing steps to reduce piracy, I still have this feeling this will happen soon when we go to mediafire one day:

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McLovin

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I've already received a strike against my account, as the YouTube Templates I had were taken down.
 
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