Batu69 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Three large file-hosting services have announced that they will shut down at the end of the month, citing reasons beyond their control. Lolabits, Abelhas and Partageurs are among the most popular file-sharing sites in Spain, Brazil/Portugal and France respectively, and the operators of the sites are encouraging their users to backup any stored files. While the largest file-sharing sites are targeted at an international audience, there are also many localized versions tailored to users in smaller regions. This is also the case for the file hosting services Lolabits.es, Abelhas.pt and Partageurs.com. The three sites, which are linked, target users in Spanish, Portuguese and French respectively and have grown to become very popular in countries where these are the native languages. However, this will soon end. After several years of operation the file-sharing portals have announced they will close their doors at the and of the month. In a message to its users, Lolabits says that the closure is due to reasons beyond their control. The other two sites have put up a similar message, urging users to back up their files before the and of the month. “We regret that LOLABITS.es closes on March 31, 2016 for reasons beyond our control. Download your important files this month, because from that date they will no longer be available,” Lolabits notes. TorrentFreak reached out to the Lolabits operator who informed us that there are no legal issues. Instead, the sites have problems monetizing their service, suggesting that it’s no longer sustainable to keep them online. Lolabits will close Most copyright holders will be happy to see the sites gone, as they were common targets for various takedown requests. Google’s transparency report shows that rightsholders asked to remove over a million links pointing to the sites, with Abelhas being flagged the most, more than 800,000 times in recent months. Interestingly, the original Polish version of the file-hosting services shows no shutdown notification and lives on for now. Chomikuj.pl has been in operation for over a decade and is currently among the top 30 most-visited sites in the country. Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Lolabits Founded in 2013 its not even 3 years old yet . Most of these filehost blogs will have a flavor of the month and drop old ones for new ones when one stops paying rewards they add new ones to take its place . Leechers are best way to get files because filehost providers that have premium are just scams there here one day and gone the next only very few of the very old ones still around . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Filehosters cheat with "rewards". I had some experience with hotfile.com and filesonic, had a rather good control of downloads and could verify that they payed for less then the 50% of the downloads.Payout rate of FileFactory was even worse, maybe for about the 20% of the real download count.The money actually earned by these rewards was never more than about 10 UDS monthly but helped for the expenses of a non-profit forum. Rapidshare was more honest with download count but they never gave money as reward by free subscription time. Hotfile, filesonic and rapidshare were closed down for legal issues, as many similar well-known filehosters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 37 minutes ago, luisam said: Filehosters cheat with "rewards". I had some experience with hotfile.com and filesonic, had a rather good control of downloads and could verify that they payed for less then the 50% of the downloads.Payout rate of FileFactory was even worse, maybe for about the 20% of the real download count.The money actually earned by these rewards was never more than about 10 UDS monthly but helped for the expenses of a non-profit forum. Rapidshare was more honest with download count but they never gave money as reward by free subscription time. Hotfile, filesonic and rapidshare were closed down for legal issues, as many similar well-known filehosters I been visiting .wjunction since back when filesonic and fileserve was still open . I seen those guys holding up there paychecks over there and it was way more than 10 UDS. And if you visit there today you can see witch ones are paying out and witch ones are not . These payout filehost ruin the warez scene before Hotfile many of us shared on a daily basis for free and once people started making money selling peoples releases . Many of the old uploaders , crackers and other kinds of release groups quit or they just be on private forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mantis Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Quote Lolabits, Abelhas and Partageurs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrHzbLnC4o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truemate Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 large file hosting.... 1st time I heard these 3 hosting site name ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jaley Posted May 14, 2016 Share Posted May 14, 2016 Large file hosting lol... This is my first time hearing these companies names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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