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MediaFire is no 'rogue' Web site and is not run by any criminal gang, says Tom Langridge, one of the co-founders of the file-hosting service.

In a letter to CNET, Langridge has responded to comments made on Friday by Alfred Perry, vice president of worldwide antipiracy for Paramount Pictures. Perry appeared on a panel during the On Copyright conference at Columbia University.

Perry told attendees that the studios "continue to make criminal referrals" to authorities regarding "rogue" cyberlockers. He also said that some sites that enable piracy are often operated by criminal gangs that oversee multiple criminal enterprises. After the panel, he gave CNET a list of the sites the studios consider rogue: Putlocker, Wupload, Depositfiles, FileServe, and MediaFire.

Langridge says these allegations are false. In the letter, he noted the differences between his company, founded in 2006, and the others on Perry's list, including MegaUpload. He said that MediaFire did not try to lure any "unscrupulous" former MegaUpload users who might have been looking for a new home following the shut down of that site in January by the U.S. government.

MegaUpload's founder Kim DotCom and six others have been accused of criminal copyright infringement, money laundering and racketeering by the United States.

He said MediaFire cooperates with the trade groups of the major record labels and Hollywood film studios, boots people off the service for violations and has never paid users to upload content.

Langridge's letter is as follows: