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Originally Posted by Dirty F
What exactly has been done? Not 1 big filelocker has been shut down. A bunch of random low traffic lockers lost processing. Big fucking deal. Just 1 big tube probably sees more traffic in a hour than all those lockers combined in a week. But AK doesn't seem to be bothered by big tubes hosting insane amounts of stolen content. Visited by insane amounts of visitors every day. I really wonder why.
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I went after file lockers first. As it turned out it was the right choice as the number of take down notices issued against file lockers for content dwarfs tubes. I have posted verifiable statistics several times demonstrating that tubes attract a very small number of takedown notices compared to file lockers.
Several of the largest file lockers have lost various forms of payment processing. We're continuing to put pressure on them in a number of ways I am not prepared to talk about publicly. Over time we expect to see a number of them fail.
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Originally Posted by Dirty F
Because i don't like him. There's something shady about him. You're too far up his ass to see it though.
As i said before we will find out sooner or later what his hidden agenda is. And you will look like a total idiot and tell me i was right.
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There's no hidden agenda, no other anti-piracy effort has been as transparent as we have been when it comes to explaining what we do and why we do it.
It's a shame that you're so jaded, so cynical that you cannot accept that anything can be undertaken for motivations greater than personal gain.
Recently we began trying to recover costs, this led to accusations we were trying to make a profit. So twisted are the critics that they scoff over us trying to break even.
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Originally Posted by Jesus H Christ
Franck is an annoying clown and never liked his gossiping ass in the least, but he's right. I've always enjoyed AK posts, but after reading through pages of his replies and his AVN interview? Something ain't right. I've been around the block more times then I even care to remember and was puzzled Franck actually wrote that because to smell some sort of grift means at one time you were a grifter. IMO there is someone who only wants one fox in the hen house.
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Of course, it can't be as simple as the fact that I got so sick and tired of watching this industry completely drop the ball over IP theft.
Watching pirates bleed the industry dry while coming back to sell traffic to the people that they were stealing from.
Watching pirates get insanely rich by distributing content they had no right to while the affiliate system crumbles.
Watching once highly profitable niche rights-holders get completely squeezed out of the industry while the most tangible response the industry had was to send off DMCA notices to companies that rarely if ever complied with them.
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Originally Posted by pornopete
Could be anything really, an agenda doesn't need to be something sinister. Could be he wants to build an anti-piracy business. Could be he just wants attention. But it could also be he is taking out somebodies competition. Regardless what it may be, there is always an agenda.
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There is an agenda. I want to create an environment where any person or company that deliberately engages in deriving profit from piracy has the potential to face serious consequences for doing so. That's what motivates me, that's what I am aiming for. I don't even care if it's achievable or not, so long as for the period of time this project operates that as much pain and bewilderment is foisted upon commercial pirates as possible.
Bottom line though is simple, this is probably the last chance this industry has to really make a difference to piracy. If the industry drops the ball this time, as it has in the past, then until laws change it will be doomed to playing the circular and ineffective DMCA game.