FileServe and Wupload Exit The File-Sharing Business

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April 3, 2012
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Following the shutdown of Megaupload in January and comments made by Paramount Pictures’ vice president for worldwide content protection on Friday, both Wupload and FileServe have effectively exited the file-sharing business.

FileServe initially disabled all 3rd party sharing and discontinued its rewards program back in January following the Mega raids. Although the affiliate program never returned, users reported that sharing had been re-enabled. Nevertheless, traffic continued to nose dive.

But now, after being called a “rogue site” by Paramount last week, FileServe has reinstated the full ban. Users trying to access files uploaded by others are now greeted with the following message.

Wupload announced in November 2011 that they would discontinue their affiliate program and as can be seen from the graph below, that took a toll on their traffic.

However, according to a new announcement from the site, Wupload is now withdrawing from the file-sharing business altogether.

Like FileServe, Wupload will now only offer cloud storage for people to access files they personally uploaded. Time will tell how that affects their business in the months to come.

Also mentioned last week by Paramount was PutLocker. TorrentFreak spoke with its operator and our report can be found here.

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http://www.bbgamer.co.uk/ Ben

At least people who are using those services for legit reasons are able to retrieve their files. I wouldn’t recommend using those services however. If you want ‘cloud storage’ go with Dropbox, Microsoft SkyDrive. Box.com or Mediafire.
- Shogun
  
  MediaFire is now one of the five sites being targeted by Paramount Pictures, so it might not be safe to store your precious files there.
  - Globefriends
    
    store all your file’s on http://www.globalupload.net we have the most advanced term’s of service in the world and we are hosted in Germany and have over 8 etabytes of total drive space all free user’s get 2gb of file storage we comply with all DMCA takedown request’s even tho it is not a requirement for us to do so we do so out of good will to all people concerned to keep people’s private file’s safe and too keep copywrite content provider’s happy
  - http://www.bbgamer.co.uk/ Ben
    
    I guess. Mediafire are pretty darn good at removing copyrighted files though and they don’t have any of that ‘premium account’ to get faster downloads bullshit which is where Megaupload/Fileserve/Wupload made their money from.
Wupload FAN! Please Reopen!

:( I m very sad!
- Globefriends
  
  one word http://www.globalupload.net has the world’s most advanced service term’s to keep people’s private files safe and to keep content provider’s happy
Telezarz

As i said in an other article :

“Fuck Wupload, Fuck Fileserve ! Just…Fuck em both !
They just cut their sharing system without any informations, without telling their users !
Nowadays, the ways of communication online are more than easy, Facebook, Twitter, just to tell these two.
They havnt even think of display a signal like “Our sharing service will be over on [date here], save you files now” . Nooooo of course not !

And even worse, a lot of people bought premium account, they will never get a refund, nothing….

That shows that they dont even DESERVE to be use and REMEMBERED !

Fuck you Wupload and Fileserve, we will NOT miss you and we will surely FORGOTTEN ! ”
- http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
  
  Who is we? Stop typing for everyone were you a sucka for paying premium?
  - Telezarz
    
    I never paid for premium accounts on any filehosters out there (or dead)
    - Globefriends
      
      http://www.globalupload.net
- Wupload Is Pussy
  
  I’m asking for a refund
  - Mental Extension
    
    You should know that by doing so, you’re destroying the opportunity for other file sharing services to use paypal (if that’s what you used ). I got a refund from FileServe via paypal, which i now regret.
    
    @Telezarz: Like I said under your other (identical) post, Wupload handled this much better than those other companies. You obviously don’t know much about this.
    - Telezarz
      
      Like I said in my reply to you on my other (identical) post, you should read my comments from the begining to the end.
- Globefriends
  
  one word globalupload.net
http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman

R.I.P.’s fileserve you were great then the crack-heads in Hollywood destroyed it that means it’s time for me to start going back on twitter and protesting and petitions DEMANDPROGRESS we have some petitioning to do!!!! As wupload didn’t know you much but you’re suckering out…
- Globefriends
  
  try globalupload.net the ultimate file sharing site boasts having the world’s most advanced service term’s to people’s files safe and to keep content provider’s happy…peace and enjoy
http://twitter.com/happyizpunjai happy

Good luck fileserve always the fastest way to get ubuntu iso when needed. wupload can go cause there download took forever.
John Space

My uTorrent chose a bad moment to go like a rheumatic turtle…
Name1

I feel sorry for filestube in all this … they’re running out of sources >_<
- 278
  
  Lol
http://twitter.com/CryoAnon CryoAnon

So effectively what the MAFIAA has attempted to do for years to the Torrent communities they did in a couple of months to the cyberlockers.
- Name1
  
  And MAFIAA is winning against cyberlockers simply because they are centeralized and they host the content rather than links to a 3rd party torrent(which isn’t even linking to the hosted file) …. torrents will rise. Hail torrents.
  - Globefriends
    
    The only problem with cyberlocker’s is there service term’s globalupload.net has the most advanced service term’s in the world to protect private file’s and to keep content provider’s happy it comply’s with all DMCA takedown request’s even tho not required as it is hosted in Germany but does so out of good will for all party’s concerned globalupload.net forever
Lolek Bolek

Wheee, right beside other hosters months before – FileServe & Wupload share the one way road to ACTA n’ sorts :P Hands in the air for your US Dictator 0Pama *puke*
- Shibaiz
  
  ACTA is never ratified and “0Pama” has no involvement in this. Read some news, nerd.
Anonymous

The next crop of file storage services will use encryption on upload, probably with an upload app. Then they can legitimately say they have no idea what is stored. Uploaders can then share file location and passwords by private channels.
Rekrul

Out in Hollywood, the sound of champagne corks popping is deafening…
- Fredrika
  
  > “Out in Hollywood, the sound of champagne corks popping is deafening…”
  
  As they did when Napster went down, and Limewire, and in 2006 when Pirate Bay was taken off-line for a few days. And as a result of every such single celebration, piracy continuous to increase, today counting hundreds of millions of pirates.
  
  I’m not sure i understand their reason for celebrating, but then again, i don’t understand fascist companies that refuses to operate on the free market, but instead resort to extortion and threats, to get rid of fully legal competition.
  - Shibaiz
    
    Fascist? Legal competition? Cut the crap, that’s bullshit. While I’m also mad with this phenomenon, piracy is still a piracy. Get over it.
    - Fredrika
      
      > “Fascist? Legal competition? Cut the crap, that’s bullshit.”
      
      It is not. They demand the dismantling of several human rights, as in the right to private communication, the right to anonymity, and the right to be considered innocent until proven guilty, and they demand the dismantling of these human rights for all citizens, not just the once pirating. Demanding this, causing a huge collateral damage amongst innocent people not pirating, is indeed fascism.
      
      Yes legal. No higher court has ever found any mode of business amongst cyberlockers to be illegal in a precedent sentencing. Therefore the judicial system considers their operations legal. And they do indeed offer the effect of competition to the monopoly holders, otherwise they wouldn’t care. Legal competition.
      
      In no way is any of my clams crap. They are based on facts and the correct used of those above mentioned terms.
      
      > “While I’m also mad with this phenomenon, piracy is still a piracy.”
      
      That piracy is piracy does not mean that faschism isn’t fascism, or that something that no legal system has declared illegal is illegal.
      
      > “Get over it.”
      
      I certainly will not. I have a huge problem with the fact that some weak failed entrepreneurs that can’t handle themselves on the free market demand the dismantling of human rights to uphold their legislative monopoly, to stop a behaviour that no scientific evidence ever has found to be harmful to either society, creators, culture or the content industries current record revenues.
      
      And i most certainly will use the correct terms to point out what politics these companies advocate, as in fascism, and i will most certainly continue to point out that both torrentsites and bitlockers are considered fully legal according to all relevant judicial systems.
      
      If you have a problem with me pointing out facts, try to argue for your opinion in a meaningful and substantial manner, instead of just calling something crap. As it is now it seems you just don’t understand the actual issues.
- Cyberlocker FTW!!!
  
  It ain’t over yet ;) bet they’ll simply move their server somewhere… outside of US jurisdiction. Central America or those little islands for eg.
  
  Problem? :)
  - Globefriends
    
    yup globalupload.net has the most advanced service term’s in the world and comply’s with all DMCA takedown request’s all tho it’s not required to it does so out of good will to keep both content provider’s and private citizen file’s safe and secure
- I Download Movies
  
  … for making flop movies. Cheers!
DH

why my comment was being removed?
May I know why?
- Iwfew
  
  Me too I’ll like to know why
  - Dudu
    
    me 3
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Cavelord

WUpload needs to get rid of the moniker The Ultimate Experience. It should read, The Lackluster Experience.

Or change it to: The Ultimate* Experience
*=Ultimate experience will very…actually be non-existant.
Anon

You everyone here doesn’t understand is the reason fileserve and wupload have stopped their service is simple. The government has stopped playing by the rules and is literally on a witch hunt. No matter how “legal” the sites are, the feds/hollywood are out for blood…. They will cross oceans, jurisdictions and even break laws such as the DMCA law that protects people like Fileserve, Wupload and yes…. MegaUpload.

They stopped their service because they know it’s a lost battle. That they will be arrested without cause but only “Conspiracies” will be thrown at them, the feds will seize the domains and any other properties/belongings and put them in a local prison awaiting extradition… It’s just not worth it. The battle is lost and there is nothing anyone can do about it. The USA is broke and Hollywood threw money at them to “take care” of this for them like as if they were ordering a hit. The USA gov in this case was the Hitman. When laws don’t protect you anymore.. it’s time to move on and say… “ok, you win….i’m out…. just don’t put me in jail”

I feel mostly bad for the thousands of people that used the service legitimately and now can’t. Was a good run…. the USA Gov / Hollywood say “The internet is not free…. it belongs to US now” Soon you will all be paying to use the internet… not via ISP but the internet itself..

This is a very sad day for me as well…. more than you will ever know.

[Anon]
- Name1
  
  Actually, they are playing by the rules …
  
  If they sue WUpload/FileServe it’d be for criminal charges (profiting from piracy) or some other way.
  
  They play by the rules but they try sneeky ways around them.
  
  As for Megaupload they had a lovely amount of evidence – he shared pirated 50 cent, his service made a lot of money etc. Although he has a real reason for sharing 50 cent … it all makes Hollywood happy. Sure, they didn’t attempt to sue them first before seizing everything. Yet don’t forget everything they’ve done is *within* the law.
  
  The law needs a serious tweak – it’s written in such a way things can ‘override’ things in a sense. If they can’t get them closed down due to piracy … they’ll claim the company is a terrorist organisation then get it legally closed down ‘to help the country’ … the madness will go all the way.
  - Name1
    
    “it’s written in such a way” … hehe, it sounded like I was talking about SOPA/PIPA acts then … I guess it’ve just shown SOPA/PIPA is already in place .. just these acts made it a slightly quicker process to take sites offline.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    No, they don’t have a ‘lovely amount of evidence’ and he has already busted the assertions of those companies by pointing out that:
    
    1. It was his own private upload that was never shared with anyone (the data shows that it was downloaded a grand total of one time) to test a new site feature.
    
    2. That the thing in question isn’t copyrighted in New Zealand, therefore even if it had shared it, it wasn’t illegal.
- http://www.twitter.com/echoman74 echoman
  
  Just because a legit company had people uploading copyrighted material should not be the sites responsibility and if they handle the situation by removing the copyrighted material they can do that. The mpaa nor the riaa are a government agency they are both watch dog organisations. Actually the mpaa is a ratings system, which is what they are supposed to do. When both the mpaa/riaa became too big for their head. THEY BECAME GREEDY NASTY AND NON INNOVATIVE.
  They even made enemies with those artist and producers directors etc that are contracted to . So believe me i know more than you think i know.
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Anonymous

“Now you see us, now you don’t…” for heaven’s sake! You’ve got a business model, stick with it.

You complied with all laws and regulations, honoured takedown requests and removed infringing content? You ran a legitimate business and are protected under the DMCA safe harbour law. It doesn’t matter that some lawyer bullies claim you’re a thug. They’re wrong, you’re right.

You took an “anything goes, and hey, while we’re at it, let’s make even more dough with it” attitude and violated the regulations that would have granted you status as a service provider rather than an accomplice? Then pussing out last-minute because your name has appeared on some list won’t do shit for you. Remember MegaUpload? The main things that were pinned on them, they had stopped doing for months. It doesn’t matter if the complainant has proof that you *were* knowingly doing it before!

Either way, they’re killing their own business. If they were striving to be a cloud storage service—who in their right mind would store their files at a hoster that is known to disable and reenable their services at a whim? Honestly, you don’t belong in the business, get lost.

On the upside, this might finally wake up some corporate sheep to the realities of cloud computing. Giving up control over your own files and infrastructure—not necessarily a good thing!
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DH

Thanks Fileserve for quitting this!
I would say everything is still peaceful if no Fileserve!

That crazy Hong Kong company running the Fileserve also launched the uploadstation, filepost, filejungle, filesonic, videobb, videozer, etc.

I am sure everyone is familiar with their big floating “EARN MONEY” banner. Their staff also spread over the forum to ask people to upload illegal content to make money.

In simple math, how much traffic in total of all their website? And they did make this industry looks very bad and crossing the line.

You guys need not to feel sad about Fileserve, they’re just looking for quick money but not a real business.
- Anonymous
  
  Sure you’re home-brewed evidence can back this up… Rumours stay rumours and Kony 2012 will live forever.
  
  In simple math, why the f*ck do you care?
- Globefriends
  
  Ok everyone, retards, stupid people, smart people, handycap, rich assholes, listen to this http://www.globalupload.net boast’s the most advanced service term’s in the world and comply’s with all DMCA takedown request’s even tho it’s not required to because it’s hosted in Germany but does so out of good will for content provider’s and private citizen’s alike hope you enjoy this one it is there to stay forever!
Javion1990

Wupload was the best you will be miss
- Globefriends
  
  yup and now globalupload.net is the best! and it’s there to stay forever!
- Globefriends
  
  yup and now globalupload.net is the best! and it’s there to stay forever!
  - Brendo
    
    GlobalUpload sucks, it’s using a script http://filehostingscript.com/
suomynonA

really gay they are just pressuring. the megaupload thing hasn’t even finished court right, the legal system, it is not determined yet who can be held responsible for what, to which degree and so forth.

these companies are afraid of the what they could get convicted for, most likely on a personal level. where those in charge will get prison and unrepayable fines. hence they play along. but not all of them will. many will stand on their principles and it is left to see what will happen.

my prediction is based on how easy and widespread sharing has become over the past 10 – 15 years. for multiple years we have been in a peak and i feel the past ish years has it became so insanely widespread, maybe cuz of facebook n stuff (gets “people” on the internet using the pc), that it’s no wonder a fight breaks out. its good because we need to see what the actual rules are gonna be.

as for my prediction. we will just go back and smarten up again. it has been dumbed down so fucking much. there’s a reason we can have that peek now and that 10 years ago the growth was pretty slow. i don’t know what the invention will be but things like expanding p2p, integrating tor like stuff, bouncing traces, putting up smokescreens. war times always grant the most technological advance. and i truly believe that once that ball gets rolling the “play/control/advantage” will be in the hands of the internet users.
- Globefriends
  
  yup and globalupload.net is the ultimate file sharing site on earth and it’s there to stay it boast’s the most advanced service term’s in the world and comply’s to all DMCA takedown request’s even tho it’s not required to because it’s hosted in Germany but does so to keep both content provider’s and private citizen’s happy globalupload.net is there to stay forever! and all activity on the site is logged forever!
Anonymous

If you link to a file on fileserve, it tells you you can’t share. But If you just go to the site, or got to purchase premium, they don’t say anything about it. Rat bastards.
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Anonymous

Latest Britannica definition:
Fileserve and WUpload: contemp slang=cojones-less. (ENG = “lacking balls”)
Example usage:
“I am a [Fileserve/ WUpload] coward fleeing with tail firmly (very firmly) tucked under rear. Testicles absorbed into abdomen”.
- Anon
  
  you would be doing the same. don’t make yourself stand out like robin hood for file sharing when you have done nothing more but share on torrents, a service and been leeching like a creep on young school girls.
  - http://profiles.google.com/zerianis10 Christopher Kidwell
    
    No, a lot of us wouldn’t be ‘doing the same’. If I was running a company that complied with relevant federal law like Fileserve did, I would give them the big middle finger and tell them where to stick it.
    
    But then again, I am a bit more willing to ‘confront’ and ‘speak out’ than most people are.
shadypotential

FUCK NOT PUTLOCKER!
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Geraldspace2010

I don’t think Fileserve and Wupload are really not keeping their promises when regarding the safety of other internet users, however they talk about file sharing disablement between them and perhaps they are scared that the F.B.I will target them and throw them before a court in the U.S.A. But both file sharers have said they will not shut down despite the threat of police involvement from the united states of America, or are they doing for some other type of action that we the general public do not know about.
John Dow

The US government did it.

They shut down the whole file sharing. The big companies will be VERY HAPPY – and Obama will get millions in cash for his campaign.

Big money corporations are always the winner.

One day, they will dispose of the people – with FEMA’s help.
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Anonymous

Sounds like a pretty good business to me dude.
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Big K

Ridiculous, fileserve screwed lots of people with active accounts, they just lost their cash basically?
Corey Cohen

I don’t get this, why aren’t these sites fighting back? The law is on their side. They are protected by the same DMCA provisions that protect YouTube. Why are they all simply rolling over and complying to these accusations that, if actually brought to court, would fail?

Can someone please explain why these cyberlocker sites are not fighting back against these unsupported accusations?
- brudda
  
  Because fighting would take money. Isn’t it obvious these guys are just taking people’s money and running. They’re slime. They don’t believe in file-sharing. They started these companies to make a profit, probably knowing that they would have to cut and run after a while. If they were smart business people, they probably had a plan on how to deal with this situation when they started their business. Now is the time to implement that plan. See ya…
  - Anonymous
    
    Perhaps you cant fight an organization which has strong connections to politicians who have strong connections to the US law enforcement and can get everything signed off with the blink of an eye. You can’t fight a monster (in a fairy tale you can as it has weak spots) that will dominate you, rinse you for money …and wtf are we as a public going to do? Cheer & applaud? No. We’re all going to wait, silent on the side and hope for the best while we don’t contribute for the cause of them going in battle.
    ..You think they want to stand up for you when the vast majority lack integrity and can turn around and tell them to fuck off when times are troubled? I think they would all be happy to pool in a large sum of money to attack the MPAA for libel (and that’s about it), while the MPAA will start a criminal court case against all of them.
    See ya…
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wikiBuddha

Um. How about passing the password to your “personal” account out? Problem solved.
- Wubarrt
  
  True, its not like you have personal stuff in there anyway
  - Playerkiller
    
    There’ll always be a douchebag who will change the password or delete the files
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Dvdwalls5

JUST SMOKE SOME BUD1
buddley bill

JUST SMOKE SOME BUD!!!!!!!!!
Anonymous

Bitupload is still allowing filesharing though?
http://www.bitupload.com
Anno

Shit SOPA !!!

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