At this moment webmoney is better.
d) use WEBMONEY TRANSFER for legal purposes only; never use WEBMONEY TRANSFER to accept payments for illegally obtained, received products or services, including deals infringing copyright of third parties (piracy products);
http://www.wmtransfer.com/eng/cooperation/legal/syagreement1.shtml
Seems OK until your site gets notified for piracy. :facepalm:
Except that file hosting is not a piracy product. File hosting is perfectly legal, if the provider stays within the bounds of the DMCA or the safe harbor law applicable in the payment processor's jurisdiction.
The amount of infringing content or the number of copyright complaints have no bearing on whether the file host is within the law.
There are likely a lot of file hosts which due to their own culpable conduct or specific knowledge aren't covered by the DMCA or the equivalent EU safe harbor, but the SFL is really stretching the definition of piracy facilitation beyond what the law actually provides.
There is no legal duty on the party of a file host to proactively monitor user generated content. Predicating liability on a service provider's lack of proactive monitoring or filtering may in fact violate EU law.
Your sponsors should be very careful before impugning that any identified file host is illegal. It may well not be doing what you think it should to stem piracy, but claiming that a file host is facilitating piracy may amount to defamation.
The defamation burden in Australia law is very plaintiff friendly. Any file host company or owner may sue SFL in any jurisdiction whose courts are willing to entertain a libel action.
And it's obvious why you don't dare to go after Rapidshare. They are big and have defended themselves in other real lawsuits.
If Manwin were fully behind it the devastation would be far worse.
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