Monday, July 16, 2012

PayPal closes siege of file sharing sites

Some months after the crisis from Megaupload, it seems that PayPal seems to be taking their horse to prevent any rain from processes of the entertainment giants. A change made in terms of using the tool listed a series of rules that file-sharing sites should follow.


Among the demands made by the giant of payments, is the restriction of illegal users can upload files, including piracy. Sites that do not prove to PayPal that monitor the shared files and have a piracy prevention are at risk of being banned permanently from the tool. This means that any site that has followed the same line of business Dotcom Kim will have to arrange alternative payment.

A representative of the MediaFire site TorrentFreak spoke to on the subject. Since last month the site no longer accepts payments by PayPal after a series of conversations with the company that made too many demands about how they dealt with users' files. Already the British company said it withdrew PutLocker use PayPal for finding invasive the new policy: "We already have a strict policy against this sort of thing, we do not feel comfortable with any one other company snooping the data of our users."

Apparently the turbulence caused by the case have not yet passed Megaupload. This is not the first time that PayPal changed its policy prohibiting or services to use your tool. In 2010, the company has blocked all donations received by Wikileaks.