Everyone is asking why do I have to pay to download a file?
One good reason is that uploaders to a file host wants to earn money and file hosting website pays them well. So the "premium" content that you can find now are on popular hosting servers the moment they are released.
Why not just use bittorrent? Well unless you are highly skilled in hiding yourself behind multiple VPNs, using bittorrent is the worst when it comes to identifying you as an individual. Private organisation loves to hunt downloaders from bittorrent as your IP address is well made available to them.
File host offers you the protection against them by hiding your IP but not email address (differs on which country the file hosting company is based) when you sign up for. Look at megaupload where the whole site was shutdown and the user email account are vulnerable.
Multi host offers the benefit of all the above and gives you the option to download from multiple sites. In addition, if the main file host went down, they do not capture your IP address but the multi host IP address. I have yet to hear any multi host website going down because of law makers so the multi host environment gives you an additional layer of protection.
