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Friday, 31 October 2014

FileCrop is taken down by London Police

File crop is an online file sharing website taken down by London Police for investigation of copyright infringement issue. If you visit Filecrop.com now you will see this warning issued by London Police:

FileCrop Shutdown Notice

Before the copyright issue filecrop was among the most popular file sharing websites on web with impressive page rank and very good statistics. Filecrop had almost completed it's 7 years run before it was taken down by the authorities. It's net worth on the web is $2,500,183. Even after the take down it's among the top one Lakh websites in the world. Take a look at it's alexa rank and statistics in the snapshot below:

FileCrop Alexa Rank

Relaunch of filecrop as filecrop2:


Filecrop is relaunched as filecrop2 and this time they claim to be completely legal. Within less than 24 hours of the launch, their servers were flooded by users with more than 300,000 files indexed in their database. To cope with the copyrights issues and keep their business legal they have decided not to accept files from just any cloud storage but at the moment they are accepting file sharing from Mega servers only which is legitimate version of previously closed MegaUpload. MegaUpload was also shut down because of copyright issues and the owner of Mega.co.nz is the same man who owned MegaUpload. In the past filecrop has worked with many illegal sites like MegaUpload, Rapidshare, Hotfile, 4shared etc.

FileCrop Version 2

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