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yoyo888

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Hi Guys,

Read this today HERE

Uploaded.net Terminates Accounts of Persistent Pirates

Popular file-hosting service Uploaded.net terminated the accounts of many users this week, citing frequent copyright infringements. The account holders in question, many of which used the site to generate revenue, are no longer able to share their files and are actively looking for alternatives.

With millions of visitors per month, Uploaded is one of the largest file-hosting services on the Internet.

Like many of its ‘cloud-hosting’ competitors, the service is also used to share copyright-infringing material, which is a thorn in the side of various copyright holder groups.

This has already led to legal trouble for Uploaded’s parent company Cyando AG, which is currently involved in a legal battle with copyright holders in Germany.

The rightsholders believe that Uploaded is not doing enough to prevent repeat infringements and argue that the company should therefore be held liable for the infringing actions of its users.

While Uploaded hasn’t commented on the accusations out of court, recent developments show that something has definitely changed behind the scenes.

This week, Uploaded terminated the accounts of a large group of users who presumably used the site to share infringing material. The German news outlet Tarnkappe suggests that this is likely a direct response to the legal proceedings.

On several forums, including WJunction, users are reporting that their accounts have been permanently suspended by the file-hosting service.

“Due to the high frequency of reported copyright notifications and evaluation of our compliance department, we regret to inform you that – according to our Terms and Conditions – your account with ID ***, was deactivated,” the message sent by uploaded reads.

Those who login to their account will see a similar notice, confirming that their account has been suspended. “This account has been permanently suspended due to violations of the Terms and Conditions,” it reads.

Suspended…

While Uploaded has terminated accounts for similar reasons in the past, the number of complaints this week is unusual. Some even suggest that the site may not be around for much longer.

“So all our accounts are banned on the same day? I think very soon they will close the site!” one uploader wrote.

For now there is no indication that Uploaded is shutting down anytime soon. However, the recent terminations suggest that the site is getting tougher on users whose files are frequently flagged by rightholders.

The suspensions will mostly impact people who upload and share many pirated files on the site, often for profit. This is also the group of users copyright holders are most concerned about.

Uploaded’s actions are reminiscent of Rapidshare, which also took measures to ban frequent copyright infringers from its service. The company adopted one of the most restrictive sharing policies, but had to shut down after a while, as the company became less profitable.

TorrentFreak reached out to Uploaded to find out more about the apparent suspension spree, but we have yet to hear back from the company. The affected users, meanwhile, are looking for alternatives to share their files.
 

dragonscub

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Not my favorite "free" host due to slow-ish speed, but sad to see it go: Uploaded was always a good alternative for older clips that had been taken down earlier by other hosts. And posters with rare, hard to find non-porn files seemed to prefer Uploaded by far over other hosts.

Unfortunately, the sudden, unexpected collusion of nearly all international governments with Hollywood and the FBI is behind this (just as it caused the deaths of many other popular hosts starting three years ago). Until very recently, most countries outside North America had a much more liberal attitude toward file sharing- many were even outspoken in their disdain for Hollywood edicts. Then suddenly something changed diplomatically, and en masse these countries began raiding hosts in cooperation with global FBI efforts. We had a very bad moment a few years ago when we lost nearly all the popular hosts in one month alone.

Of course the file hosting business is tempting, so there are always new hosts popping up to replace the ones that close, but they're usually not as fast and each new one is more loaded with malware than the last (the new ones also tend to cheat their uploaders). Rapidgator and Uploaded are possibly the last survivors of the mass raids: too bad Uploaded is now to become a zombie site like Rapidshare, and Rapidgator is confusing users with inconsistent service. With UL going down and RG getting weird, all we're left with are the newer hosts like Uploadgig (which may be good to their uploaders but absolutely suck for free downloaders, being all but useless with their 15 KB/s free service).

R.I.P., Uploaded- we didn't really love you, but we'll miss you just the same...
 

warp9

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I use UL for years now, never read such a note. All Uppers use it still in my favourite forums. Not one is suspended.
 

haiducii

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Another filelocker that will be gone soon....but the pirates will simply move to another file sharing website and upload there...there are better alternatives out there! ;)
 

warp9

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I will use it 'till the end. :p
 

hugmebear

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It seems to me that North American visitors are denied access to the site but it is usually fully functional if you use another ip.
 

Whtrbbit

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It wasn't my favorite, but it was still usable.
 
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