Whilst on the grey side, moves like this from PayPal are only going to see increased growth of Bitcoin in 2013

PayPal Demands Invites to Private BitTorrent Trackers | TorrentFreak

Whilst on the grey side, moves like this from PayPal are only going to see increased growth of Bitcoin in 2013

PayPal Demands Invites to Private BitTorrent Trackers enigmax January 8, 2013 0 paypal Print The traditional way for private BitTorrent trackers to keep their operations going is to accept donations from site users. Many sites, probably many hundreds, use PayPal to process these donations since it’s the most convenient option for site members. However, these days PayPal isn’t keen on doing business with file-sharing sites and is getting very demanding. Those demands now include receiving private tracker invitations so they can personally snoop behind the scenes. For many years payment processors have dealt with both file-hosting and BitTorrent sites without asking too many questions, but last year things began to change. Rightsholders and anti-piracy companies have been putting companies like PayPal under increasing pressure to stop processing funds for sites that have bec...

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@kyuupichan » 09 Jan '13, 10pm
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@jonmatonis » 09 Jan '13, 4pm
RT @magnetikonline: Whilst on the grey side, moves like this from PayPal are only going to see increased growth of Bitcoin in 2013 [link]
@magnetikonline » 08 Jan '13, 11pm
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@BitCoinReporter » 08 Jan '13, 7pm
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@Bittirahafi » 09 Jan '13, 4pm
RT @magnetikonline: Whilst on the grey side, moves like this from PayPal are only going to see increased growth of Bitcoin in 2013 [link]
@Technom4ge » 09 Jan '13, 4pm
RT @magnetikonline: Whilst on the grey side, moves like this from PayPal are only going to see increased growth of Bitcoin in 2013 [link]