Where are most of these earnings from? On the PPD or PPS?
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File Hosts would starve if they were relying solely on legal users, your rewards programs are set up to encourage people to upload popular content not home movies. The business model most successful file host follow relies on traffic from and to works not owned or made by the uploader.
I'm afraid I would strongly disagree. Certainly many file hosts do benefit from popular content, but our model is more of a 'shop', hence the name 'FileShoppe'.
We do not reward users for free downloads, and if a reward only comes from a paid download, this is certainly a deterrent for copyright file sharing is it not?
In any case, it is our belief that producers of content, perhaps photographers, or musicians who wish to publish their own content, and ensure they are paid for their works, we most certainly enable that and they can benefit wholly for their legitimate use of the service!
If they are looking to promote themselves and offer content to their users free of charge, then there is no need for a reward scheme. However, if a sale of 'free' content is made, should they not be rewarded as well?