[0xR1CK]

They accepted payment to get around quotas (and probably ran ads). Even if it was a tiny percentage of people who engaged with them this way, or even if they profited at all, they took money in exchange for accessing an illicit resource. That is likely the main reason the teeth have come out to bite.

If anything though this might push that resource to the hands of people who can maintaining the massive library voluntarily and distributed with less ethical/morally-dubious implications.

[andai]

Anyone know what payment processor they used? Did they take USD etc? That's probably how their real identities got exposed.

[crtasm]

I don't believe they ran adverts, can anyone confirm?