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What does Filehosts Have Against Hong-Kong ??

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Fileserve & Now Filesonic have banned users from Hong-Kong and just wanted to know why .

Note for Hong Kong Users

Please note that FileSonic no longer pays for downloads from Hong Kong. Also, please note that we no longer accept premium account purchases from Hong Kong.
Thank you for your understanding.
 
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It's possible that there were lots of fraud purchases from Hong Kong. Or other theory would be that uploaders from Hong Kong were infecting the files.
 
I cannot speak for filesonic but I noticed a lot of hong kong users cheated. More then anyone else so I removed them from cat b on imgkeep
 
According to RickyFS of Fileserve, he said the reason for disallowing Hong Kong membership was not because of fraud but he refused to explain why. This made me even more curious. I suspected some sort of pressure by the government but that was just pure speculation. But now, I think it does appear so....if you add up all of the pieces together....

Ever since the Edison Chan sex scandal incident where the accused stored their photos on Crapidshare, the HK Police mentioned on the news it took them great length to acquiring those photos from offshore filehosts. Then there's also this article:

http://guanyu9.blogspot.com/2010/01/piracy-via-paid-file-hosting-services.html

Also, which 3 filehosts block Hong Kong from accessing?

Answer: Megaupload, Filesonic and Fileserve!

Megaupload and Filesonic are Hong Kong companies and have offices in Hong Kong. Although it doesn't seem like Fileserve is a Hong Kong company but RickyFS's presence always make me wonder otherwise. RickyFS is situated in Central, Hong Kong. Many months ago I had a chat with him and he mentioned that Fileserve's primary customers are not in Hong Kong. That moment I thought to myself, "then why the need for a tech support with an office in HK?"

You don't see other filehosts banning Hong Kong access, do you?

The way I look at it, the HK Police and Custom are trying to curb software and media piracy. If so, our days with filehosts are numbered...!

In the future we may have to rely on other filehosts that don't have a Hong Kong office. It's time I move my files to Bitshare....

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iTwins said:
According to RickyFS of Fileserve, he said the reason for disallowing Hong Kong membership was not because of fraud but he refused to explain why. This made me even more curious. I suspected some sort of pressure by the government but that was just pure speculation. But now, I think it does appear so....if you add up all of the pieces together....

Ever since the Edison Chan sex scandal incident where the accused stored their photos on Crapidshare, the HK Police mentioned on the news it took them great length to acquiring those photos from offshore filehosts. Then there's also this article:

http://guanyu9.blogspot.com/2010/01/piracy-via-paid-file-hosting-services.html

Also, which 3 filehosts block Hong Kong from accessing?

Answer: Megaupload, Filesonic and Fileserve!

Megaupload and Filesonic are Hong Kong companies and have offices in Hong Kong. Although it doesn't seem like Fileserve is a Hong Kong company but RickyFS's presence always make me wonder otherwise. RickyFS is situated in Central, Hong Kong. Many months ago I had a chat with him and he mentioned that Fileserve's primary customers are not in Hong Kong. That moment I thought to myself, "then why the need for a tech support with an office in HK?"

You don't see other filehosts banning Hong Kong access, do you?

The way I look at it, the HK Police and Custom are trying to curb software and media piracy. If so, our days with filehosts are numbered...!

In the future we may have to rely on other filehosts that don't have a Hong Kong office. It's time I move my files to Bitshare....

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Nice guess. but the bad news is bs have a storage limit even u are a premium member.
As far as I know there is not many hosts providing unlimited storage.
 
I only have 2 TB files. And I am sure eventually they will set to unlimited. If not, I don't mind paying for more storage. I am already grateful they gave me a free premium account.

There's always a way. You can even workaround the HK blockade too. I tried many ways and they seem viable.... There's always a way :)
 
pinkgagcom said:
Nice guess. but the bad news is bs have a storage limit even u are a premium member.
As far as I know there is not many hosts providing unlimited storage.
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That's true, Bitshare has a storage limit of 3 TB but according to Bitshare you can create an additional account to store an additional 3 TB, and so on. However, whether you have to pay for an extra premium account is an unknown at this moment. Bitshare hasn't replied me yet (or chose to ignore me probably because they haven't decided what to do yet)

Nonetheless, like you said, there are a lot other file hosts out there. As long as that file host doesn't have an HK office, then I think its safe. Hotfile is also a candidate if you don't care about its ripoff ranking system. It pays good if you can get it to Silver rank.
 
^ If you've filled an account with 3TB, it shouldn't be a problem paying $9 a month to keep those files anyways.. it's just annoying for big uploaders that need to open accounts again and again ;)
 
Yes, I totally agree! I would rather pay extra for add an additional 3TB (but for a cheaper price than regular new members). I really don't want to manage several 3 TB accounts.
 
iTwins said:
My suspicions were right! It's a government thingy!

Filesonic Support came back with the answer!

http://www.wjunction.com/showpost.php?p=552886&postcount=954

I always knew it wasn't fraud. Hong Kong people are rich, they don't really care about pocket changes that come from file hosting commissions!
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No wonder. HK Government is famous to its loyalty to enterprises so that all copyright related entities must be in trouble.

I suppose the file hosts regard HK as an offshore safe place but in fact not as much as they think.
 
I thint this has nithing to do with the goverment:) Look at any PTC site, they don't pay Chin/HK users, some even go further, and dont pay to Malaysia, Vietnam...

There are 2 reasons: 1) they cheat 2) they get great number of referrals in short amount of time, but they don't invest a single penny:)

This money doesn't mean much to us, but it's a world to them :)
 
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