The “Megaupload Effect” keeps going on, as we mentioned some time ago.

On the 1rst of March, the Italian portal DDLFantasy.net, which became very
famous for the huge amount of movies, videogames, video, music and ebooks
illegally distributed (thousands of registered users and thousands of content
published in both national and international copyright infringement), has decided to spontaneously cease its activities.

Last Thursday, following the closure of Megaupload and the “virtuous” behavior of other file-sharing services still online, as well as the capture of the hacker firm “SIDCrew” (as seen on Quintarelli’s blog: http://blog.quintarelli.it/
blog/2012/02/beccato-sid-crew.html), who specialized in illegal distribution of
movies for a fee, the Web Admins of one of the most popular portals for piracy
in Italy, whose servers were located in France to avoid seizures, decided to
close DDLFantasy, declaring they had to do so, to avoid becoming victims of a
“witch hunt” under way for copyright protection.

Leaving aside such a provocative statement, it might be interesting to ask these gentlemen how much have they actually earned from the activity of illegal distribution and files exchange, from both spontaneous donations from members
of the portal and advertising spaces’ revenues, during these years of activity of the portal.