Some file sharing services suspend

It seems that anti-piracy organizations are slowly getting their way. At least after the arrest of the administration of the project Megaupload and the closure of the project itself, some file-sharing services decided not to wait for their turn, and removed the functions of sharing files. This is exactly what the owners of the FileSonic service, who seem to be so “white and fluffy” in the eyes of copyright advocates, did. FileSonic Administration announced yesterday that the sharing of files on FileSonic is closed.

Instead, the service began to work as a file storage for individual users. That is, any user can upload any file to the FileSonic server, but only those who put it there can use this file. In other words, users of the specified service will no longer have access to each other’s files. Apparently, the FileSonic management is terribly frightened by the events that have taken place, and the administration is even ready to put up with the decline in the popularity of the service, which is associated with loss of income.
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It is worth noting that the FileSonic service is one of the ten largest file-sharing resources in the world. True, no accusations have been put forward to this service for a long time. FileSonic tried to work legally, without violating the rights of record labels, filmmakers and other personalities. Interestingly, according to the documents, FileSonic is an asset of a certain company from Hong Kong, and only part of the servers of this service is located in the USA. But in the case of Megaupload, everything was the same, but this did not save the project and its administration.

At the very end of last year, FileSonic decided to cooperate with the rights holders, or rather, with the Vobile company, which develops technologies for tracking pirated content. So far, there is no information on how effective such cooperation turned out to be, and whether any of the users of the service was punished for the illegal exchange of files whose rights belong to someone.

Together with Filesonic, the work was also suspended by the service FileServe and Uploaded.to, plus several lesser-known projects.

Via usatoday