Mediafire Starts Blocking FilesTube Search Traffic. Index Tells The Tale

Posted: 2012/04/22 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Filtering, Stats / reports

But, as information about legal and illegal information “wants to be free”, Filestube has already communicated a workaround

With millions of daily visitors FilesTube is among the most frequently visited websites on the Internet.

Founded in 2007, the Polish-operated site is the largest meta-search engine for content hosted on cyberlockers such as Hotfile, 4Shared and Mediafire. FilesTube refers a significant amount of traffic to these sites, but not all of them are very happy about it.

In fact, Mediafire don’t want to be indexed at all, and a few hours ago took action to block all incoming traffic from FilesTube.

“As a private service MediaFire was never designed to be indexed which is why we don’t have an index,” Mediafire co-founder Tom Langridge explains to TorrentFreak.

More:
http://torrentfreak.com/mediafire-starts-blocking-filestube-links-120422/

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