More than half a year after Megaupload was shuttered by the U.S. Government and the file-hosting industry is still in peril. Hollywood has painted a target on sites such as MediaFire , Putlocker and DepositFiles , but these legal threats are not their only worry. In recent months, PayPal has stopped working with these and dozens of other file-hosting services, citing piracy concerns. To be accepted by PayPal, file-hosting services now have to comply with a list of far-reaching demands entirely targeted at copyright-infringing and otherwise illegal files. Just how far PayPal is prepared to go is explained by Putlocker.

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PayPal Bans Major File-Hosting Services Over Piracy Concerns