Share-Online.biz
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| languages | multilingual |
| Registration | optional |
| On-line | 2007 (according to the Internet Archive ) (currently confiscated) |
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Share-Online.biz was a provider of online services that specialized in the storage, management and simple exchange of large files in particular (so-called share hosters ). It financed itself through paid premium access. Share-Online.biz, along with Rapidshare and Uploaded.net, was one of the world's largest file hosts. According to GVU , Share-Online.biz recorded between six and ten million views per month. According to the legal notice, the company was based in Belize .
According to the current state of investigation, the operators have been renting steadily growing server capacities from a Dutch provider to operate the platform since 2010 at the latest, most recently in the double-digit petabyte range.
The company had made headlines over and over again because of copyright issues surrounding the files it stored. In October 2019, an international raid took place in Germany , France and the Netherlands , during which the investigators searched the apartments and business premises of the file-sharing platform. By operating the platform, the suspects are said to have made a turnover of more than 50 million euros from April 2008 to October 2017, according to the public prosecutor .
Well-known portals such as Serienjunkies.org and Boerse.bz were among the pages that most frequently linked to Share-Online. The rights holders were made more difficult to take action against the unauthorized uploaded offers by the in-house link encryption service Share-Links .
At Share-Online.biz, millions of files were hosted on several hundred servers. A considerable amount of copyrighted works such as movies, series, erotic productions, computer games, software, e-books or pieces of music are said to have been offered for download via these , whereby the files previously uploaded to the platform by registered users. Similar to Rapidshare, there were also payments for the uploaders based on a detailed point system taking into account the file size and number of downloads.
Users could use Share-Online.biz with paid premium accounts if they wished, access for 28 days cost around 10 euros, for example.
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ German file-sharing giant Share-Online.biz closed after raid Welt.de, October 18, 2019
- ↑ "Share-Online.biz" Investigators shut down the largest German filehoster Spiegel, October 17, 2019