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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mp3@lemmy.ca to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

After trying endlessly for two years to run a file sharing site with user anonymity we have been tired of handling the extreme volumes of people abusing it and the headaches it has created for us. Maybe it is hard to understand but after tens of million uploads and many petabytes later all work of handling abuse was automated through all available channels to be fast as possible. We have auto banned contents of hundreds of thousands files. Banned file names and also banned specific usage patterns connected to abusive material to the point where we did not care if we accidental delete thousands of false positive in this process. Even after all this the high volume of abuse will not stop. This is not the kind of work we imagine when acquiring it and recently our proxy provider shut us down.

This can not continue.

Domain 4sale.

domain@anonfiles.com

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[-] ShrimpsIsBugs@feddit.de 179 points 1 year ago

Classic "this is why we can't have nice things" moment

[-] dingus@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 year ago

Sometimes I wonder, considering how high the volume of the abuse, how much of the "abuse" is copyright holders purposefully flooding such services with shit like CP to force a shutdown.

Like, either there's fucking millions upon millions of pedos out there, or they have the financial backing of a giant corporation and/or government.

[-] PirateRock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Sadly even if 0.1 percent of the world population is a disgusting pedo that's still 9 million people, even more unfortunate is that the actual percentage is somewhere in the 1-3 percent range.

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