How do these sites get away with this

shindig

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If you look for 3d models you come across all kinds of ripped game assets, or even better, forums that allow group-buys and open file sharing, and even better, private torrent sites.

What I'm trying to figure out is how to do something similar, without going to jail....

Are they hosted in china? Do you have to hire a frontman to buy the domain in their name?

The site doesn't actually handle the files, just the links to the files at various filesharing servers and update them as they get taken down.... Ideally it would fetch the files, zip them, and give a temporary download link, so the real files wouldn't get taken down as easily...

One site, is a "club" and you have to upload to get bandwidth or pay money. Is the paypal account they use likely a front business?

It's a good amounts of users I've noticed, a thread will get 3K+ views in hours, and I have a lot of stuff they don't have.

Do I need to find a chinamen or russian, or something? If bitcoins were easier for people to get I'd just use those, but they're not.
 


Look at how long Megaupload lasted until it was taken down...

Even rapidshare is still alive.

Also it's like forums, if I was to post a Photo from getty images MYSELF on WF, Jon wouldn't be liable unless he straight up refused to remove it..

You can skirt the boundaries by mixing good intent to cover up "bad" user actions.

See: BHW's download section. Fronting as the seo advice, and sales stuff, etc. But they have a download area that's 100% illegal ripped files that the users post.

The basics..

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Get a server out of the USA, etc. you can make all your stuff private. Get a fake virtual office to appear legit, etc.

Operate a "legit" company, ie like dropbox. Use paypal if you must, and when the time comes you can say hey.. I have real customers who share family photos, documents, etc. Only a small % share pirated stuff, and we do our "best" to remove and stop it.

Reality is not a single fuck is given. But they don't know that, lol.

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There are tons of file sharing sites, forum areas with downloads that are stolen, etc. It's not hard to setup, just don't be uploading files yourself and hosting them all on your server...