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[Sensei]

@WBZ

Thanks for your message.

Cryptic names and passwords could not save me. WebShots people
scanned WShots.Net forum and read my post.

I cannot prove that, but MediaFire used my mail address known to
WebShots (I was a free member of WebShots before American
Greetings bought it).

I used different mail address when I registered with MediaFire. They
did not send anything to that address and nobody contacted the
other upload mirrors, so other links still work.

[Parasite]

Cryptic names and passwords could not save me. WebShots people
scanned WShots.Net forum and read my post.

I hardly believe that someone [a human] is killing his life in browsing websites and contacting the hosters.
Instead if that - copyright-holders can provide the major hosters (like MF) with the filehashes of their copyrighted materials to be blacklisted by the hoster once it detected in uploads.
Thus, the encryption of the file WILL do the trick - it changes the hash dramatically, and it won't be restored and rehashed at the hoster's side without the password, thus won't be blacklisted this way. And nobody at MF is sitting days and nights in hunting for your WBZs and try the any found passwords - they have TONNES of wares being uploaded daily.

PS: after all, you MAY store your legally-bought WBZs @MediaFire. Those are YOURS, and you're free to do anything you want, and they simply have no any rights to blockdelete your files. The legal uploading/storing is not punishable - the illegal DOWNLOADING is. And it is just another story [with another ways to bypass it, too. For example - use TOR or proxy... :) ]

[Sensei]

@Parasite

I found this forum using Google, and WShotsNet was on the first results page
so it was easy, because the whole forum was visible by guests (now it is not).

MediaFire used my mail address from WebShots to send me the ban message
(I was free WebShots member on the old site), not the address I used to
register with MediaFire. In the message they said that the links to
illegal files are part of my post at WShotsNet FAQ page, and they
quoted the exact URL. That was true. It was the only place where I could
post at that time.

BTW, even if I buy images, I still may not distribute them, because I am
not the copyright owner, and WebShots does not permit image
distributions. I may only make backup copies and keep them
in my home for personal use.

You are right. Copyright holders usually do not search manually,
but in my case it was very easy for WebShots, so they did it.

Best regards,

Sensei

[Parasite]

MediaFire used my mail address from WebShots to send me the ban message
(I was free WebShots member on the old site), not the address I used to
register with MediaFire. In the message they said that the links to
illegal files are part of my post at WShotsNet FAQ page, and they
quoted the exact URL. That was true. It was the only place where I could
post at that time.

Hmmm.... perhaps someone @WS just sent a complain to MF, so they acted regardless the automatic file checks.
An human-written messade is also a sign: normally they do not send anything, just remove the files w/o any notice.

BTW, even if I buy images, I still may not distribute them,

Storing is not distributing. The line is thin of course, but you can always stand on that.
Say, store files from one MF account, and post'em here from another username/email. Thus noone can bind THAT "stored" account and THIS "piblished" account without contacting the site admin here. And the site admin has the right to ignore such of requests - just like I am ignoring the continuouis requests to remove this and that from the FTP.

I may only make backup copies and keep them in my home for personal use.

They can say whatever they want in their so-called "Licence agreements" - it is just useless, as ANY licence agreements cannot be above the law of your homecountry.
The judjes will judje you based on the laws, not any lic.agreements [for more - witten in another country based on their laws, not yours].
I hardly believe that your country of residence INDEED has the law "I may only make backup copies and keep them in my home for personal use". What if you are living in the rented house (NOT yours) - then what, you can't make backups of your data at all? And how about all of those "Cloud online disks" - are all of'em illegal, too? Including MF, iDrive, MS Live Cloud etcetcetc...

C'mon. Don't scare those licence agreements too much - they are useless and powerless IF you have your country's laws saying the very opposite (or NOT saying something exactly as per lic.agreement do). For example, here we do NOT have the law of "only 1 backup", thus NOONE is gonna sue me for my 2nd++ backup even if I sign a hundred of agreements pushing me to that.

[WBZ]

I found this forum using Google

BIG "BROTHER" is watching you...

[WBZ]

...and Google is no member of this forum

[Parasite]

...and Google is no member of this forum

You may notice the differen color ot he username.
That is just a mark the GoogleBot is indexing the page[s]. Bots are not members - they are Guests with an IP known by this board.

PS: BTW Google is ABLE to reach to these pages, even these are for members only. How? Easy: have someone ever registered here using GMail's account? 99% yes - means 99% that Google already HAS their login/passwords and technically ABLE to access to here just as that member.
This is applicable to any member-email-verification-enabled site. You yourself presented your logpass to Google just by the fact of using their so-called "free" service. Nothing is free on this world, dudes - expecially "free" from a corporation which is well-known by it's ability of data scanning, parsing and storing.

A story:
- Hey, Paul! I found a word which is not known by Google! It is ";jlkjlshdfhhfasf1231241sdjbf"! I keyed that in - and it found 0 results!!
- Mmm...really, Serge? Lets try again...!
<keying in>
"Google has found 1 match so far: user Serge had searching for this 5 minutes ago - and now you are loggeg along, too."

[WBZ]

That is just a mark the GoogleBot is indexing the page[s]. Bots are not members - they are Guests with an IP known by this board.

Thanks for the explanations !