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… moment myPDFScripts is suffering a bit of a crisis after Mediafire blocked the site’s locker account so whether Repo Man and the other …
… hosted on cyberlockers such as Hotfile, 4Shared and Mediafire. FilesTube refers a significant amount of traffic to these sites, but not all of them are very happy about it. In fact, Mediafire don’t want to be indexed at all, took action to block all incoming …
Since the unexpected shutdown of Megaupload in January there has been significant realignment in the cyberlocker market, with many sites changing their business models and some pulling out of the business altogether. For RapidShare, one of the market le …
… wants to be gone. The exec identified Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker and Depositfiles as targets that might be … players. After Putlocker refuted the claims earlier, today MediaFire responds to the allegations. “It was both shocking and … that Mr. Perry referenced us as a ‘rogue’ website,” MediaFire co-founder Tom Langridge told TorrentFreak. “It’s my opinion …
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 disable …
… hosting services in the MPAA’s spotlight – FileServe, MediaFire, Wupload, PutLocker and Depositfiles. At the weekend MediaFire insisted that they aren’t run by some criminal gang and today we’ve …
… The prime targets on this shutdown list are Fileserve, MediaFire, Wupload, Putlocker and Depositfiles. The movie studio claims that …
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