shamu726 Posted March 25, 2015 Share Posted March 25, 2015 Five key operators of the cyberlocker site Ryushare.com have this week been jailed for spreading "depraved content". After making available masses of pornographic videos the popular file-hosting site is said to have illegally generated close to $7m in profits. Site founder Nguyen Duc Nhat was sentenced to 3.5 years behind bars.Three years ago file-hosting site Ryushare was a rising star in the so-called cyberlocker scene. Operating healthy affiliate and rewards schemes the site became a magnet for those looking to upload popular content.After mere months online the site was already pressing the market leaders and by early 2013 was looking to break into the Alexa 500. Progress continued for another year but in April 2014 the site suddenly disappeared without explanation.Rumors began to circulate that the site’s operators had been arrested but it took weeks for the arrival of an official announcement. The Vietnamese government eventually delivered the news that Ryushare had been closed down following the arrest of site owner Nguyen Duc Nhat plus three of his associates. Cars, motorcycles, and around $350,000 were seized.While arrests are not a particularly unusual development in file-sharing cases, copyright issues weren’t at the heart of the site’s problems. It transpired that the authorities had taken offense at the huge amounts of “depraved content” being made available via the site.Following the arrest of another individual, five men stood trial in Vietnam this month for their crimes.The Ryushare defendants on trial The court heard that the vast majority of the site’s 803,000 users didn’t pay a cent to access Ryushare, but around 77,500 VIP members paid between 10 euros per month and 60 euros per year for special access to the service. And it paid to introduce new VIP members to the site, with up to 60% of the sign up fee paid back to referrers.The authorities claim that this system of commissions, VIP accounts and access to free (largely pornographic) content was the driving force behind the operation and the reason that people took the time to upload so much to the site. And it was profitable to do so, the prosecution said.The Court was told that since Ryushare’s inception in 2012, 32-year-old site creator Nguyen Duc Nhat generated profits of around $7m, collected via payment processing company OnePAY. Around $230,000 was paid out to four individuals who uploaded around 18,000 porn titles to the site.The numbers aren’t particularly surprising considering the size of the Ryushare operation. According to a local report the site hosted more than 11.3 million files hosted on 700 servers hired from companies located in France and the Netherlands.This Monday the five defendants – Nguyen Duc Nhat, 32, Huu Hieu Le, 29, Ty Le Van, 27, Vu Ich Nguyen, 30, and Vinh Quoc Doan Van, 32 – were found guilty and handed custodial sentences ranging from nine months to three and half years. The five also received relatively small fines totaling a few thousand dollars.But while the original Ryushare operators are now behind bars, the site itself returned several months ago and remains online today. While it hasn’t yet retained its former standing in terms of traffic, its business model appears untouched and currently charges exactly the same rates for premium membership.Source: TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lurch234 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 One of the worst file sharing site possible! The uploader can decide whatever file size needs to be downloaded with a premium account! As small as 100 MB!As compared to Rapidgator where you need a premium account to download files of 1 GB or more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Vietnamese law says your not allowed to distribute porn from or too there country and this guy was not following there laws , Many porn blogs ban Vietnam ips form accessing there site. And this guy is from Vietnam selling accounts and giving rewards for uploading huge amounts of it to different blogs. there very strict about this . He got took down . He should have closed down or changed the rules at his site already .He had plenty time to get his act together but didn't and he took his employees down with him. There not strict at all about normal media on free filehost in Vietnam . This guy is making money while in jail . :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GRiM Posted March 26, 2015 Share Posted March 26, 2015 Vietnamese law says your not allowed to distribute porn from or too there country and this guy was not following there laws , Many porn blogs ban Vietnam ips form accessing there site. And this guy is from Vietnam selling accounts and giving rewards for uploading huge amounts of it to different blogs. there very strict about this . He got took down . He should have closed down or changed the rules at his site already .He had plenty time to get his act together but didn't and he took his employees down with him. There not strict at all about normal media on free filehost in Vietnam . This guy is making money while in jail . :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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