Wow...you guys are fucking idiots, and I say that with all due respect.
At the risk of ruining my cloak of anonymity if there were ever a situation worth sacrificing anonymity for, it's when you fucktards make crazy accusations like I am in any way shape or form working with/for Fabian and Manwin.
Yes, I am Nate from Takedown Piracy.
So do I have anything to do with Manwin? No. If you had an iota of intelligence this would be painfully obvious.
#1 - Look at Google's Transparency Report:
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...als/copyright/
More specifically look at Pornhub's stats in that report:
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...s/pornhub.com/
7766 URLs removed from Google - and where did 7,125 of those come from? Why Takedown Piracy. We're responsible for 92 fucking percent of the takedowns from Pornhub in Google. So if Google implements their "pirate penalty" and it affects Pornhub...I hope you mouth breathers give me my 92% of the credit. Judging by Pornhub's stats on that page, it looks like only me and Eric @ RYC are the only ones who are reporting Manwin tubes to Google. You should be wondering why an anti-piracy company like Degban can seem to be the #1 reporter to Google yet RARELY, IF EVER, reports any Manwin sites. Hmmmmm...why do you think that is?
#2. Wicked Pictures is owned by Steve Orenstein. I've known Steve for years, going back before there was even an entity known as Manwin or Mansef. Steve is an honorable man doing everything he can to keep his employees in a job. Since he's got more integrity in his pinky than you armchair quarterback webmasters, I'm not even going to put him on your level. Wicked Pictures became a client years and years before the Manwin thing and remain a client to this day. This six degrees of separation character assassination is plain stupid. This is a small connected industry. You can point the finger all day. What about people that license to RK for VOD or cable, I guess they are all bad guys now too huh? Making some flimsy connection there is pure horseshit.
#3 But why don't you look at a company like Digital Playground which is actually wholly owned and operated by Manwin? From nearly day one of the start of Takedown Piracy Digital Playground was a client. Now look at the Google Transparency Report again -
http://www.google.com/transparencyre...t/owners/1760/
Why have I not sent a SINGLE DMCA notice for DP in over 6 months? Why is the date of my last DP DMCA notice nearly the exact same day the buyout was announced. Notice in that report how Eric @ RYC dropped them even before I did, and my relationship with DP was severed soon after. If Fabian was somehow telling me what to do, why do the stats tell the EXACT opposite story?
#4 Ever read my column in AVN? Every other month it's filled with me exposing Manwin's flimsy repeat infringer policy and their activities as what could be construed as keyword squatting. If Fabian pulls my strings then he really, REALLY sucks at it.
#5 You cite some Press Release from ACIUF as "proof" my company is affiliated with Manwin. This makes my head explode. I have absolutely NOTHING to do with ACIUF - I have no clue what they even do. Ask Siep that's his organization. He's proud to take Manwin money, that's his call. Fabian should just as soon burn his money than send it to me. Unlike most people in this industry, I'm not going up to Fabian with my empty bowl out all Oliver Twist-style begging for a piece of the traffic and money action.
This is the crazy thing about GFY - you guys just bitch and bitch about people like Fabian and then when someone is actually doing something positive, you rip them. This thread has to have Fabian doing LOLZ like mad. You guys are so caught up in your conspiracies and bitching that you can't even stop for a second and think about what you're saying.
I swear...you guys. SMH