FilesTube was a metasearch engine established in 2007, which specialized in searching files in various

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and uploading services, such as

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. It also included sections for videos, games, lyrics and software. In December 2014, FilesTube discontinued its file-search service and became a free service for streaming licensed independent movies and series. As of July 2016, site redirects to viewster.com, site providing access to limited number of licensed content, including Anime and movies. It is owned by Polish company Red-Sky.

Name and logo

The name and logo of the website are in the style of the video-sharing website

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. While the old logo looked almost identical to the YouTube logo (with "Files" replacing "You" and the logo colour being blue), slight changes have been made to the current logo.

Reception

In 2010, Donnie Jenkins of ''

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'' called the website "a dedicated search site to find downloadable files such as audio, video and documents".

Copyright infringement and blocking

While it operated as a search engine, FilesTube said it removed copyrighted content from its search results on request. However, it was blocked by court order or government action in several countries: *

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in June 2011 (no longer blocked as of May 2014) * The

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in October 2013 *

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in January 2010

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Filestube Internet search engines File hosting File sharing Online music and lyrics databases Internet properties established in 2007 Defunct internet search engines Domain-specific search engines Metasearch engines