So that's still not solving the problem. That's fixing the symptoms. I mean, shutting down every ISP in the world would solve the problem as well? Very noble to fight piracy in any way, but in this case not solving the issue. I believe that the ad networks could help making life hard for pirates, I just believe 'going after them' is not the right thing to do... I would do it in a different tone.

I am not doing any business with plugrush, they're blacklisted from thehun at the moment, but starting a fight with them doesn't fix this. I also believe showing ads to visitors on infringing sites is wrong. Both sides have their points, but I believe a discussing is starting (or in fact: taking place) that focussing on the wrong point...

There have been a lot of fights in the past where people forgot what they were fighting for... Don't let that happen here...

It is your responsibility if you truly are anti-piracy! Every step helps. You may not be the end all for anti-piracy, but you are an important step.

As a publisher Plugrush is an important piece to my current business model, but I am removing all of my Plugrush ad zones from my sites by the end of the day.

Please make an announcement if you finally choose to do the right thing by disabling ad zones from banned sites. I will consider adding your ad zones back into my sites.

Let me get this straight.

So you have a special feature coded into your software that says if a publisher account is terminated for piracy, then you also don't charge the advertiser for this traffic?

That seems very, very strange. And you'd be the first ad network known to mankind that doesn't charge for impressions based upon terminated sites but delivers it for free. That an advertiser would login, and pay for less impressions than what you actually deliver?

Why put up such a wall? Why not just terminate and cut all ties. You're going to turn around then say you are doing a favor to the industry for this? You going to provide AK the back end and a walk through of your system to prove what you say is actually true. Hell, can anyone back up this guy's claim that he doesn't charge for those zones after he terminates the account? Who here is going to believe that on face value? My money says he won't pay the pub out after the acct is terminated, but he will most definitely continue to charge for those impressions and keep all the $. I'd bet money that he's telling a half truth, or else he'd cut all ties.

If you weren't enjoying some business benefit, then this is exactly what you would be doing... cutting all ties.

I'm a bit hesitant to get into the fray here, as I could be considered a competitor to Plugrush, and hence perhaps a bit unbiased (although our network is magnitudes smaller than PR so I'm not sure we're really in the same league).

I agree, that it's not Plugrush's (or any traffic broker's) responsibility to police their networks for copyright infringement (who's knows what's legal or not, on the face of it?), but once pointed out an obvious infringement (eg. siterips) they should do everything in their power to stop anyone from making any profits from that traffic.

That, in my mind, is to disable the domain and any associated ad zones.

Question: What if the site contained some sort of CP, or beast content? Would you let the adzone remain active?

Scenario A
"I terminate the account, dont pay the pub out, and then deliver the traffic to all my advertisers for free! It's a special feature I coded out! And I'm doing the industry a huge favor!"

Scenario B
"I terminate the account, dont pay the pub out, but I continue to charge the advertisers for the traffic, thus lining my own pocket."

Which one is more realistic. Better yet, which one is less work.... Scenario B doesn't even need a custom code.

Agreed...

Scenario A doesn't seem to make any sense to anyone other than Plugrush. :(

If(in_array(affiliate,list_of_banned_affiliates))
Donotlogandcharge();
Else
Charge();

Doesn't take a lot of programming... Let's start fights for the right reasons. We pulled plugrush 'cause of their blind ads (difference of business ethics, no reason to fight) and the fact that some of their advertisers are banned by avg/google/etc for pushing malware on people's machines. I will not have my visitors exposed to that. Different story, not worth a fight either. But to say they're lying because the programming would be too hard is not right.

So, in your opinion, what would be attacking the root of the problem, if it's not preventing the pirates from actually profiting from piracy and to stop encouraging other pirates from doing the same?

If you REALLY aren't benefiting from the pirate ads then why not disable them? And come on this "we leave them up for the good of the industry" thing is just bullshit.

I don't know what is and isn't true but saying "we terminated that affiliate for X" while leaving the links up and accepting the traffic to secretly profit from it still is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It's probably been documented on this forum at least a thousand times.

Want to help the industry? Keep the adzones up but replace it with an "ad" which helps push the consumer towards avoiding piracy in the industry. Maybe something like "Support content creators so they can bring you more hot content. Purchase your porn!" Then it's clear the as was terminated and it really does help the industry.

Well it's a good thing we don't pay per impression :)

On our traffic trading, most publishers are far above 100% on trading too...I guess maybe we are just a really bad company all together??? :upsidedow

The thing is even if PR really is delivering the traffic for free to the advertisers it is still benefitting the advertisers and plugrush because it sweetens the deal for them. Plugrush can give their whales the traffic from the pirate sites in order to keep them around. Then other networks who might try to be honest such as say Juicy Ads then have to compete against this.

But the whole problem is that the traffic was generated using someone else's content so really PR is giving away something which really isn't theirs to give away in the first place. It would be like me giving my neighbor's car away to a neighboring business and saying "I am helping the economy".

No, but in my opinion is trying to bully the means of pirates making money into helping your cause isn't going to help. Know you enemy... But more importantly: know who your friend should be. Just saying that you'll catch more flies with honey than with trying to take a piss out of any company.

Like I said before: I'm not doing business with plugrush. On the contrary. But trying to force anybody in trying to enforce demands is only causing them to try and defend why they shouldn't. Reaching your goals lesson #1: don't loose focus. We're not fighting plugrush, we're fighting piracy...

So if I were to buy traffic from PR for a pay site, that traffic basically comes from pirate sites instead of normal affiliate sites that have paying customers? Even if PR deems a site inappropriate, I still get traffic from that site? :1orglaugh

I understand what you're saying and agree with it -in general- you see the reality is that we would love nothing more than to be nice to everyone, it would save us a ton of time, work and money.

We usually approach nicely at first, in cases like for example: Juicy Ads where sensible people are involved it works like a charm, we commend Juicy Ads for fully cooperating and taking a stance against piracy without any hard time or pushback, if every company were like that, these kinds of threads would never even have to come up.

Unfortunately in the whole time since this effort has started that was the minority of cases, so you have to turn up the heat to get results. I guess for some companies it's simply too sweet to rake in the piracy dough and they often think: HA, what the hell are they gonna do to us?

Which brings us here and to the next steps later on.

I would say that these pirate sites deliver a huge number of impressions and therefore quite a large sum of money....

I can't speak for Adult King or Joker but just sending out DMCA's like Max and I do for 3 hours or so a day doesn't always get the job done.

Believe me when I say I have better things to do than come on this board and act like a jackass but unfortunately that does get the job done.

Going after pirates and those who fence their stolen goods is making a difference.

A year ago Max Hardcore content was everywhere. Now, not so much.

Paully

^^screaming into your computer monitor is not sending out dmca's

Your solution does not stop anyone benefiting from Piracy. The ads remain, the advertiser still gets benefit from the traffic from a pirate site and nobody in the outside world knows that the publisher has been terminated.

How much of your traffic do you think comes from pirate or piracy related websites ? How many of those publishers domains do you think are legitimate ?

It would also show other pirates that there is zero tolerance for piracy at Plugrush, right now it's sounding as if Plugrush isn't all that concerned about the issue.

We shut down file lockers and other sites in the file locker eco system by taking every supply of money away from them and getting their hosting shut down.

We go after their payment processing, their hosting, their ad revenue streams and anything else that supplies a cash flow to their infringing site or service.

Take the money away and commercial piracy fails. We have seen site after site shut down when they have run out of money.

Your suggested solution is nothing but a cynical attempt to keep benefiting from pirate traffic. Even if you're not charging for the ad clicks, the network is getting exposure and you're still providing your advertisers click throughs.

So your solution is that if it's a pirate website you will still display ads, for no other reason than it's not your fight and your ads might cause a pirate to go pay for a porn site.

By your logic if it was a child pornography site you would display the ads, because child protection isn't your fight and your ads might cause a pedophile to go to an adult porn site.

When you take your rationale to the furthest possible extreme your rationale fails, just as in the alternative scenario described above.

To be fair until now we have not been going after the ad networks, we have been asking the ad networks to terminate the accounts of pirates. That's all we are asking. Terminate the financial accounts of pirates and shut their ads down depriving them of a way to make money.

Yes, I must admit I am quite disappointed, I had hoped once they were shown the scale of the problem that they would want to be good corporate citizens.

Correct. We take away the payment processing, ad revenue and hosting (where possible) of commercial pirates. Without revenue the sites close, we have proven that time and time again.

None of the pirate sites displaying Plugrush ads are "sharing is caring" pirates. They're all in it for a buck.

We don't want to go after anyone in this industry. Do you think I enjoy sitting up all night repeating the same arguments ad infinitum ?

My preference would be that Plugrush stand up and be a good corporate citizen and send a clear message that piracy is not tolerated on their network and when infringing sites are reported and found by them to be infringing that the publisher's accounts are terminated and ad zones blocked.

Sometimes when dealing with third parties we get push back, just like we are getting on this issue from Plugrush. That's unfortunate.

Correct.

You would think that the last thing Plugrush would want is pirate publishers adding to the load on their network if there is no commercial benefit from doing so. We've all seen ad networks buckling under the strain of high traffic volumes from time to time, there is no way any ad network would want unnecessary traffic that isn't some how being paid for. It doesn't pass the smell test.

Exactly, my point above. Do they still show ads on CP sites because they see it as a public service to steer pedophiles away from nasty stuff in the hope that they will buy a normal adult website membership ? It's not a standpoint that makes any sense at all.

After sleeping on this issue, I tend to agree. It just doesn't pass the smell test.

Nobody is saying you're a bad company, however we are asking questions like:

1. Why have you been harbouring support on piracy webmaster forums ?

2. Why not take a clear stance anti piracy and disable piracy ad zones ?

The only thing I can conclude from your position is that you think you will lose a fair chunk of traffic from your network or you are worried about how much of your network is actually piracy derived.

What are you going to do if we find out that 50% of your network's reach is piracy related ?

Any responsible corporate citizen would disable the ad zones, if for no other reason that to send a clear message that "pirates aren't welcome on our network".


Not every action taken through third parties has been taken easily. If you remember back to the genesis of this campaign even Paypal pushed back against helping us shut off sites payment processing.

It took weeks before we reached a point with Paypal where we had a system in place to deal with the issue. Now a file sharing or piracy site is barely able to offer Paypal a few days before we kill them off.

Does anyone really want traffic from the same community that uses stolen credit cards to rip sites content and then place that content on file lockers ?

From a risk management point of view, the last traffic anyone should want is nefarious.

Sounds like someone is backing down outta cowardly fear.
You went from Iron Mike to brittle tissue paper bro. Tell AK to go fuck himself an go about your biz. The more you post the more stupid you're appearing.

Maybe, just fucking maybe he realizes he has a lot to lose by harboring pirates and other scumbags.

I'm hoping they do the right thing because we aren't going anywhere until they get it straightened out.

And you're going to get loco on them all? Meth head and all?

Hey beaner, you're usually okay and everything but..

This is the wrong thread for this.

Besides, Paully can be found in plenty of other threads :winkwink:
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I'm out... I will troll him in other threads... he is the one that decided to put my name in his sig. No idea what it means except trying to sabotage business

Good morning Plugrush. Slept well I hope.

keep this thread up top.

the proof is in the pudding, plugrush is a parasitic adult ad network

When a zone is disabled but still showing the plug rush thumbs, does it show the ads, the trade thumbs or both?

Hahahah - I almost spit out my morning coffee on this one! :thumbsup

That was good :)

bump for taking down motherfuckers that profit off piracy

adult king you have the contacts

take down their fucking paypal, paxum, payoneer, redpass, merchant accounts, bank accounts, etc !!!!

Yup, after sleeping on this, like AK did, I'm tending to agree after reading over the PR responses. It's sounding like the ole' "Between a Rock & a Hard Place" scenario. Overall, AK is right, just from an observer's perspective here. Quote, "It doesn't pass the smell test..." and, IMO it's not commonsensical nor business savvy unless $$ was lining the pockets in some way. it's all too suspicious. I.e., smell test.

PS - The 'tissue paper bro' thing had me ROTF.

There's no sleeping on anything. This ak is hassling pr for banners on psuzy. Ask him if he's busting flings balls for advertising on pirate boards like psuzy? Fuck no, he aint doing shit because their lining his pockets with cash.

Gotta dig the stop file lockers crawl spider he constantly uses to secretly harvest intellectual knowledge about an organization. Where I come from that's industrial espionage. ak will use words like accidental discovery. Unless you're actually employed and given authority, it's espionage all in the name of copyright protection.

Ask adultking about his ex owner friend of WJ named Capone. :thumbsup

It's always easy to call someone out for what you believe are the "rights" and "wrongs" of how you think THEY should conduct THEIR business when you aren't the ones paying their bills. Every traffic decision affects the bottom line, employees, salaries etc etc etc.

That's untrue, we're working with several ad networks and only bring things to the boards once it's clear that ad networks won't play ball.

Crawling the Internet is not industrial espionage, but it's easy to see you've come from WJunction now, also easy to see you probably have something to lose in all this.

I have never spoken to Simon Key in my life.

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bump for the night crew

lets castrate adult ad networks that willfully conspire with tube sites and file lockers to monetize illegal content

Thought you're bad ass shutting down sites, freezing payment processors? Why the attempted business ruining public humiliation?
You forgot having your pockets lined with cash. How ya paying for the secretary, the office in Melbourne? You aint paying that shit with these nickle and dime donations.


Didn't say crawling the internet. I said crawling to secretly harvest intellectual knowledge about an organization. Don't twist my fuckin' my words around bro. If you think you're smarter than everyone in the room, you're not.



You're a mother fucking liar with a secret agenda! Your boy Capone owned some of the biggest warez porn sites on the net. Many in the porn biz (specially those in Australia) work for both sides, hiding under different names and identities. You and Capone argued on who owns what, and how to share the profits. The shit didn't go your way so ya framed Capone. Capone had no choice but to sell wj thinkin' the w guys would back off. It?s only a business, right ak?

:thumbsup

ruh roh...

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