Robert King is the lead figure behind StopFileLockers (SFL), an anti-piracy group dedicated to bringing file-hosting services to their knees by strangling their finances. Last year King claimed his group had a hand in disrupting the cash flow to hundreds of sites and actually shutting down dozens more. Now he has a very big scalp on his mind.
King, an Australian and adult industry player, says that StopFileLockers have just begun a "campaign to have the payment processing of all Mega resellers terminated."
"Mega itself does not process payments because nobody would process payments for it. A couple of Mega resellers have PayPal and they are being terminated," he says.
Speaking with TorrentFreak, King says Mega can't meet the standards required by PayPal.
"It has been widely reported that Paypal requires certain conditions to be met to become an approved file sharing merchant, on the face of it many of these conditions cannot be met by Mega," he said.
A look at Mega's premium account signup page reveals a selection of resellers, all apparently reputable companies. They include domain name registrar Instra, whose founder Tony Lentino is the new Mega CEO, and other domain companies including EuroDNS and Digiweb. If these companies did indeed find their PayPal accounts closed or frozen, it could potentially disrupt their core businesses to the tune of millions of dollars.