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Piracy drives billions of visits to file locker websites

article published on 11 January, 2011

Anti-fraud firm MarkMonitor has said that file locker and easy file-sharing sites like RapidShare, Megaupload and Megavideo, receiving enormous amounts of traffic due to piracy. The firm monitored traffic levels to illegal files on 43 file sharing sites and found that it amounted to about 53 billion visits per year. RapidShare, Megaupload and Megavideo alone received more than 21 billion ... [ read the full article ]

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xaznboitx
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_ 		11. January 2011 @ 22:19 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
going to rent renting videos from now on, I mostly use megaupload that's why
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DXR88
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_ 		12. January 2011 @ 17:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i conducted my own study and found that, 99.9% of pirated materiel is available from Redbox,Blockbuster,Netflix, and slew of other video rental places.

We have come to the conclusion, that to stop piracy hollywood must close its doors,Forever.
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ST2006
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_ 		13. January 2011 @ 11:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow people r really fast on news these days.. ! :/
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ST2006
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_ 		13. January 2011 @ 11:37 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Wow people r really fast on news these days.. ! :/
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elitepunk
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_ 		13. January 2011 @ 15:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hotfile rulez right now, others r 2 slow.
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champman
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_ 		15. January 2011 @ 15:17 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Priced Out: Well, bring down the silly prices of music albums, and blu-rays. I'm very selective over purchases and mainly rent all my movies. Otherwise I watch them via Sky HD.

Also great to hear more artists/studios going indie.

Greed gets you nowhere.
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