Just weeks after they began banning file-sharing hosts, Paypal has extended the bans to major Usenet services, citing piracy concerns. Outside of banning the providers, the company has also frozen the assets in the accounts. A few of the Usenet providers banned are XSUsenet, EasyUsenet and Usenet4U with smaller services being banned, as well. The providers can now no longer accept ...
Read full articleOriginally posted by nonoitall:I'll go back to sending a money order to them.
Meh. I'll pay with a credit card.
Originally posted by butterfly17:Usually people either post opinions on the topic or troll in these situations.. just thought you should know. Welcome to the internet.
i don't know what to write i am a new user
Originally posted by bigfamei:I didn't know you could do that. Will credit cards companies eventually do what Paypal did? Also using a credit card leaves an audit trail back to you in case your worried about some level of privacy. I don't think a money order would, but not sure. Any thoughts?
Originally posted by nonoitall:I'll go back to sending a money order to them.
Meh. I'll pay with a credit card.
Originally posted by rmarsh:Whole heartedly agree with all these points. Paypal are way above themselves and greedy to boot.
I stopped using Paypal some time ago because of the risk of arbitrary account freezing. This company has way too much clout and charges too much for their 'service' to merchants. I do not deal with any merchant that uses paypal exclusively.
Originally posted by rmarsh:I've had a Payza account for a while now (got it back when it was Alertpay)...but people just seem paranoid about sending funds by anything but their beloved paypal. Well, too bad...I'm not going to support the actions of paypal anymore.
I stopped using Paypal some time ago because of the risk of arbitrary account freezing. This company has way too much clout and charges too much for their 'service' to merchants. I do not deal with any merchant that uses paypal exclusively.
Originally posted by PepePecas:I've always heard the 10% of whatever discipline you are in, using or whatever will ruin it for the 90% of those who are legitmate. Which means 10% control what the rest of us do. How is the the minority fucks it up for the majority. Seems backwards to me, and should be the other way around. Oh well, thats the way of world I guess.
Still donīt get it??? Sharing copyrighted files is wrong!!! You like it or not, is Bad... Sorry, all missed the point here. I know many use those services for good, you must be pissed out with those how use it for bad, and trigger this actions... FOCUS.
Originally posted by PepePecas:The only trouble is we've given the IP owners an few feet and they have taken millions of miles. IP law is slowly becoming draconian fascism.
Still donīt get it??? Sharing copyrighted files is wrong!!! You like it or not, is Bad... Sorry, all missed the point here. I know many use those services for good, you must be pissed out with those how use it for bad, and trigger this actions... FOCUS.
Originally posted by Semperfipal:The minority own everything and the majority are too busy getting by day by day to care about product quality, enslavement,censorship ,lower wages ,higher inflation, ect,ect,ect
Originally posted by PepePecas:I've always heard the 10% of whatever discipline you are in, using or whatever will ruin it for the 90% of those who are legitmate. Which means 10% control what the rest of us do. How is the the minority fucks it up for the majority. Seems backwards to me, and should be the other way around. Oh well, thats the way of world I guess.
Still donīt get it??? Sharing copyrighted files is wrong!!! You like it or not, is Bad... Sorry, all missed the point here. I know many use those services for good, you must be pissed out with those how use it for bad, and trigger this actions... FOCUS.
Quote:This is exactly the point! The fact that "sharing copyrighted files is wrong" has nothing to do with PayPal. What have they ever published, produced or represented that gives them an interest in copyright enforcement? They are in the money/payment business.
What Federal Court or Federal Bill gave PayPal the duty of controlling & enforcing all copyright laws
Originally posted by nonoitall:Eh...credit or debit
Meh. I'll pay with a credit card.
Originally posted by ThePastor:The media maffia can easily go after them. And take ebay with it.
I'm having a hard time understanding why Paypal thinks they have a dog in this hunt.
And furthermore, if I find out that my information was given to Paypal... (i'm not a paypal customer) I'll be suing like nobody's business.
I dropped them ages ago when they kept sending me spam emails. Took me MONTHS to get my CC deleted from them and I still get crap from them.
My only concern here, really, is just the fact that Usenet is on their radar.
Originally posted by ChiknLitl:"Freezing" accounts is essentially the same thing as stealing all the money out of them...even if it is released at some point, they make interest on it until then.
I just don't understand what the angle is?
Originally posted by vbdragon:It isn't just about copyright enforcement either...Megaupload didn't get taken down by the FBI until after WikiLeaks started using it as a dropbox and anonymous started using it to coordinate actions. Copyright infringement laws are doing the same thing that anti-terrorist laws have been doing since 2001; making illegal government actions legal by decree. Paypal is playing along...and as far as I'm concerned, that makes them worse than any pirate.
"Merchants must provide PayPal with free access to their service, so PayPal's Acceptable Us Policy department can monitor content."
It seems that even if you don't use PayPal, they want access to all customer's "content".
So, any merchant that uses PayPal has given access to their services to PayPal. Irrespective of any Privacy Laws and without a Federal or State warrant!!
What Federal Court or Federal Bill gave PayPal the duty of controlling & enforcing all copywrite laws??
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