General Discussion

Jenny48549 · June 14th, 2017, 02:13 AM

Please use this thread for general discussion about the shutdown.

dolfinator · June 14th, 2017, 07:39 AM

I've been wondering why they are shutting down? I'm starting to get a bit worried about image hosts in general. Last year it was Someimage, now Imagebam and Imgbox, which are even more established than Someimage was. Are they shutting down because they aren't making enough money or is there something more sinister to this, like maybe lawsuits against them?

**PoloMintGuy** · June 14th, 2017, 08:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dolfinator

I've been wondering why they are shutting down?

Hi there dolfinator!

From what I've been able to find on the web, the main theory is the shutdown is connected to a copyright infringement lawsuit by ALS Scan.

Image hosters are being accused of hosting copyrighted images.

Possible that closing is easier than fighting a lawsuit.

Typing into Google:

ALS Scan lawsuit Imagebam

Brings up a few interesting discussions on the matter.

Hope this is of use!

dolfinator · June 14th, 2017, 08:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PoloMintGuy

From what I've been able to find on the web, the main theory is the shutdown is connected to a copyright infringement lawsuit by ALS Scan.

Damn, so it's exactly what I was afraid of. This is really bad news...

**buttsie** · June 15th, 2017, 12:52 AM

Imagebam has gone from being largely off the radar to number 680 ranked site for daily visits.You can blame many things but posting the best of the best - full HD sets - would be the main reason for their rise to the top.

I'd imagine their eating into some heavy hitters bottom line profits

Hence the lawsuit thats brought them undone - they were linked to Steadfast

The 3 named - Cloudflare , Hivelocity Ventures Corporation , Steadfast Networks

These 3 dont have DMCA protection so they can be made to co-operate
https://torrentfreak.com/images/cloudpartial.pdf

Basically any site thats had dealing with the 3 American firms named in the law suit is dead in the water because their happy to hand over details to the courts to save their own hides.

Everything that occurs on an imagehost is filtered through their servers

If their owners are American they close rather than face the courts
Presumably to keep previous profits intact.

Cloudflare, Inc. is a U.S. company that provides a content delivery network, Internet security services and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the Cloudflare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites.

Cloudflare was ranked 7th among the top 50 Bad Hosts by HostExploit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudf..._controversies

Timeline - has been bubbling away for quite a few years

2017

Cloudflare Fails to Limit Scope of Piracy Lawsuit
By Ernesto on June 10, 2017

Contains PDF which contains the law suit document - names the 3 companies being sued
https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-...awsuit-170610/

2016

Hosting Companies Dragged into Piracy Lawsuit Alongside Cloudflare
By Andy on November 26, 2016

https://torrentfreak.com/hosting-com...dflare-161126/

Cloudflare: We Can’t Shut Down Pirate Sites
By Ernesto on September 27, 2016

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-...-sites-160927/

Cloudflare Faces Lawsuit For Assisting Pirate Sites
By Ernesto on August 23, 2016

https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-...-sites-160823/

2015

Cloudflare: We’re Not Aiding and Abetting Piracy
By Ernesto on May 30, 2015

https://torrentfreak.com/tag/cloudflare/

RIAA Drags CloudFlare into Piracy Lawsuit, Scolds LeaseWeb
By Ernesto on May 27, 2015

https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-drags-...aseweb-150527/

**Al Gebra** · June 15th, 2017, 01:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buttsie

Basically any site thats had dealing with the 3 American firms named in the law suit is dead in the water because they know who the owners are and are happy to hand over details
to the courts to save their own hides.

Can you list other possibly affected image hosts used on VEF or discussed as alternate hosts here?

We need quickly an overview before reupping to hosts that could be next to be shutting down.

**buttsie** · June 15th, 2017, 01:55 AM

The sites listed in the law suit are as good as it gets i'm afraid

Aside from that script blocking extensions like noscript / script safe (chrome) will show up the names of any reverse proxies / companies their associating with

The question of ownership and how far this court case will effect foreign sites is anyones guess

The full list of the pirate sites in the complaint:

a. i m g c h i l i .net.net (Dolphin, Cloudflare, OVH) - banned on vef
b. namethatpornstar.com (Hivelocity)
c. slimpics.com (Cloudflare)
d. cumonmy.com (Cloudflare)
e. bestofsexpics.com (Cloudflare)
f. stooorage.com (Cloudflare, OVH) - closed apparently
g. greenpiccs.com (Cloudflare)
h. imagebam.com (Steadfast)
i. imgsen.se (Cloudflare)
j. i m g s p i c e .com (Cloudflare) - banned on vef
k. imgspot.org (Cloudflare)
l. img.yt (Cloudflare)
m. vipergirls.to (Cloudflare)
n. pornwire.net (Cloudflare)
o. fboom.me (Cloudflare)
p. imgflash.net (Cloudflare)
q. i m g t r e x .com (Cloudflare) - banned on Vef

source

https://torrentfreak.com/hosting-com...dflare-161126/

**cuzzyman927** · June 15th, 2017, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by buttsie

The sites listed in the law suit are as good as it gets i'm afraid

Aside from that script blocking extensions like noscript / script safe (chrome) will show up the names of any reverse proxies / companies their associating with

The question of ownership and how far this court case will effect foreign sites is anyones guess

The full list of the pirate sites in the complaint:

a. i m g c h i l i .net.net (Dolphin, Cloudflare, OVH) - banned on vef
b. namethatpornstar.com (Hivelocity)
c. slimpics.com (Cloudflare)
d. cumonmy.com (Cloudflare)
e. bestofsexpics.com (Cloudflare)
f. stooorage.com (Cloudflare, OVH) - closed apparently
g. greenpiccs.com (Cloudflare)
h. imagebam.com (Steadfast)
i. imgsen.se (Cloudflare)
j. i m g s p i c e .com (Cloudflare) - banned on vef
k. imgspot.org (Cloudflare)
l. img.yt (Cloudflare)
m. vipergirls.to (Cloudflare)
n. pornwire.net (Cloudflare)
o. fboom.me (Cloudflare)
p. imgflash.net (Cloudflare)
q. i m g t r e x .com (Cloudflare) - banned on Vef

source

https://torrentfreak.com/hosting-com...dflare-161126/

Why isn't Imgbox on that list, they are pulling the plug too.?

**buttsie** · June 15th, 2017, 05:33 AM

Imagebam
https://www.whois.com/whois/imagebam.com

Imgbox
https://www.whois.com/whois/imgbox.com

The list is who is in the lawsuit - most likely the worse offenders in the eyes of ALS
not who else might be at risk of a similar fate

solarbear · June 15th, 2017, 05:37 AM

I first saw this when...i was googling my ihg problems and found hot-honeys.com. they were posting galleries of DDF and nadine jansen and score and a slew of others, nice while it lasted, but their host of choice was img.yt....then they went kaput, this happened a few months ago..

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June 15th, 2017, 12:52 AM	#5
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,275 Times in 12,746 Posts	Court case stories on torrent freak Imagebam has gone from being largely off the radar to number 680 ranked site for daily visits.You can blame many things but posting the best of the best - full HD sets - would be the main reason for their rise to the top. I'd imagine their eating into some heavy hitters bottom line profits Hence the lawsuit thats brought them undone - they were linked to Steadfast The 3 named - Cloudflare , Hivelocity Ventures Corporation , Steadfast Networks These 3 dont have DMCA protection so they can be made to co-operate https://torrentfreak.com/images/cloudpartial.pdf Basically any site thats had dealing with the 3 American firms named in the law suit is dead in the water because their happy to hand over details to the courts to save their own hides. Everything that occurs on an imagehost is filtered through their servers If their owners are American they close rather than face the courts Presumably to keep previous profits intact. Cloudflare, Inc. is a U.S. company that provides a content delivery network, Internet security services and distributed domain name server services, sitting between the visitor and the Cloudflare user's hosting provider, acting as a reverse proxy for websites. Cloudflare was ranked 7th among the top 50 Bad Hosts by HostExploit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudf..._controversies Timeline - has been bubbling away for quite a few years 2017 Cloudflare Fails to Limit Scope of Piracy Lawsuit By Ernesto on June 10, 2017 Contains PDF which contains the law suit document - names the 3 companies being sued https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-...awsuit-170610/ 2016 Hosting Companies Dragged into Piracy Lawsuit Alongside Cloudflare By Andy on November 26, 2016 https://torrentfreak.com/hosting-com...dflare-161126/ Cloudflare: We Can’t Shut Down Pirate Sites By Ernesto on September 27, 2016 https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-...-sites-160927/ Cloudflare Faces Lawsuit For Assisting Pirate Sites By Ernesto on August 23, 2016 https://torrentfreak.com/cloudflare-...-sites-160823/ 2015 Cloudflare: We’re Not Aiding and Abetting Piracy By Ernesto on May 30, 2015 https://torrentfreak.com/tag/cloudflare/ RIAA Drags CloudFlare into Piracy Lawsuit, Scolds LeaseWeb By Ernesto on May 27, 2015 https://torrentfreak.com/riaa-drags-...aseweb-150527/ Last edited by buttsie; June 15th, 2017 at 10:36 PM.. Reason: adding

June 15th, 2017, 01:55 AM	#7
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,275 Times in 12,746 Posts	The sites listed in the law suit are as good as it gets i'm afraid Aside from that script blocking extensions like noscript / script safe (chrome) will show up the names of any reverse proxies / companies their associating with The question of ownership and how far this court case will effect foreign sites is anyones guess The full list of the pirate sites in the complaint: a. i m g c h i l i .net.net (Dolphin, Cloudflare, OVH) - banned on vef b. namethatpornstar.com (Hivelocity) c. slimpics.com (Cloudflare) d. cumonmy.com (Cloudflare) e. bestofsexpics.com (Cloudflare) f. stooorage.com (Cloudflare, OVH) - closed apparently g. greenpiccs.com (Cloudflare) h. imagebam.com (Steadfast) i. imgsen.se (Cloudflare) j. i m g s p i c e .com (Cloudflare) - banned on vef k. imgspot.org (Cloudflare) l. img.yt (Cloudflare) m. vipergirls.to (Cloudflare) n. pornwire.net (Cloudflare) o. fboom.me (Cloudflare) p. imgflash.net (Cloudflare) q. i m g t r e x .com (Cloudflare) - banned on Vef source https://torrentfreak.com/hosting-com...dflare-161126/ Last edited by buttsie; June 15th, 2017 at 03:01 AM.. Reason: adding

June 15th, 2017, 05:33 AM	#9
buttsie Porn Archeologist Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: earth Posts: 12,714 Thanks: 92,252 Thanked 241,275 Times in 12,746 Posts	Same owner = same risk Imagebam https://www.whois.com/whois/imagebam.com Imgbox https://www.whois.com/whois/imgbox.com The list is who is in the lawsuit - most likely the worse offenders in the eyes of ALS not who else might be at risk of a similar fate Last edited by buttsie; June 15th, 2017 at 05:38 AM.. Reason: adding

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June 14th, 2017, 07:39 AM	#2
dolfinator Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 78 Thanks: 22,382 Thanked 1,221 Times in 75 Posts	I've been wondering why they are shutting down? I'm starting to get a bit worried about image hosts in general. Last year it was Someimage, now Imagebam and Imgbox, which are even more established than Someimage was. Are they shutting down because they aren't making enough money or is there something more sinister to this, like maybe lawsuits against them?

June 15th, 2017, 05:37 AM	#10
solarbear Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Posts: 462 Thanks: 62,317 Thanked 5,248 Times in 459 Posts	I first saw this when...i was googling my ihg problems and found hot-honeys.com. they were posting galleries of DDF and nadine jansen and score and a slew of others, nice while it lasted, but their host of choice was img.yt....then they went kaput, this happened a few months ago..