cyberlocker

An umbrella term for a website that stores content uploaded from users. See cloud storage, media sharing site, music streaming service and peer-to-peer network.

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In 2011, the United States prosecuted the operators of NinjaVideo, a site collecting links to copyright-infringing files stored on a popular cyberlocker named Megaupload.

Technology and the guilty mind: when do technology providers become criminal accomplices?

(107.) See Schuyler Velasco, Pop-Up Piracy: Indie Filmmaker Speaks Out, BACK STAGE (July 26, 2010), http://www.backstage.com/bso/content_display/news-and-features/news/ e3i172dfa7ecfd6ae96559231d9e2c27b2e; see also Dirty Money, POPUPPIRATES, http://popuppirates.com (last visited June 13, 2012) (describing the plight of the independently released 2009 film And Then Came Lola, which became available through more than 50,000 unauthorized links, online streams, and cyberlocker websites, many of which generated money for the uploaders).

Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You

Like Orkut, they direct pirate audiences to cyberlocker websites.

From Orkut to Facebook: how Brazilian pirate audiences utilize social media to create sharing subcultures

Unlike P2P networks, which require a dedicated client application (such as uTorrent for BitTorrent or eMule for eDonkey), users of a cyberlocker only need a Web browser to store or access content on it.

P2P in the networked future of European cinema

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