Hotfile Goes To War Against Copyright Infringers

[koullis]

Hotfile, one of the rising stars on the file-hosting scene, appears to be taking a tougher stance on copyright infringement. Perhaps with an eye on the litigation recently instigated by the MPAA, this week Hotfile has been deleting premium accounts ? along with all their files ? en masse. Furthermore, Hotfile are reportedly not paying out the money these accounts have earned in the site?s rewards program.


As bandwidth and storage capacity have increased, so have the capabilities of file-hosting services. Perhaps inevitably, not only are they used for the storage personal files, but increasingly for the distribution of movies, music, games and software.
Although the MPAA and RIAA have named two of the market leaders ? RapidShare and MegaUpload ? as ?rogue?, to date both sites have avoided becoming a target for litigation from the pair. The same cannot be said about Hotfile.


?In less than two years, Hotfile has become one of the 100 most trafficked sites in the world,? said the MPAA when announcing its lawsuit against the company. ?That is a direct result of the massive digital theft that Hotfile promotes.?


Furthermore, the MPAA insists that Hotfile?s business model encourages users to upload ?illegal copies of motion pictures and TV shows to its servers.? Even if this statement is true ? and there?s no evidence presented thus far to prove it is ? a development this week suggests that Hotfile is taking its DMCA responsibilities seriously.


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koullis Reviewed by koullis on 20th Feb 2011. Hotfile Goes To War Against Copyright Infringers Hotfile, one of the rising stars on the file-hosting scene, appears to be taking a tougher stance on copyright infringement. Perhaps with an eye on the litigation recently instigated by the MPAA, this week Hotfile has been deleting premium accounts ? along with all their files ? en masse. Furthermore, Hotfile are reportedly not paying out the money these accounts have earned in the site?s rewards program. As bandwidth and storage capacity have increased, so have the capabilities Rating: 5

[iMage]

there are already several of these Hotfile threads