Mark Ishikawa Of Bay TSP - GoFuckYourself.com

Deepundercover · 02-09-2004, 10:41 AM

He said in the New York Times that he did not want to be associated with porn. Yet I recall his name coming up all the time in porn circles. Am I confusing him with someone else?

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/bu...l?pagewanted=2"

MARK ISHIKAWA, the chief executive of BayTSP, disputes that. He said his company worked for Mr. Knipe almost four years ago, before the threat of lawsuits became common enough to present a real danger to downloaders. "He would have a much different effect today," he said of Mr. Knipe.

In general, Mr. Ishikawa said, pornography businesses have not been a good market for his services, which can cost from $10,000 to $50,000 a month, depending on the volume of work. "Nobody wanted to spend the money," he said. It was just as well, he said: "We don't want to be known in the porn space."

Yet, I've been following the porn industry for years and Mark Ishikawa's name keeps coming up.

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&n...com&safe=o ff

Here's a search of AVNOnline.com, where are there are four mentions

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020926.html

Robert X. Cringely writes 9/26/02

After last week's column about BayTSP and its CEO, Mark Ishikawa, I received hundreds of critical e-mail messages. For those who missed the column, it is available under the "Old Hat" button on this page. For those who can't be bothered to find that button, I explained that BayTSP is a Silicon Valley company that tracks pornographers for the FBI, and music and movie pirates for major movie studios and record labels. This makes BayTSP the bad guy to those who oppose the law it generally acts to enforce, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. What's strange is that my hundreds of messages were, for the most part, less critical of BayTSP than they were of my choosing to write about it.

The messages generally nit-picked at what the writers perceived as flaws in my column. I had written that Ishikawa's business card gave only a post office box, so readers searched domain listings and found BayTSP's address. I quoted Ishikawa as saying that kiddie porn was a precursor to child abductions, that child abductions were a growing problem. "Not so!" claimed the e-mailers, saying there was no proven connection between kiddie porn and violence, and that abductions were actually going down, not up, in frequency. And I quoted Ishikawa as saying that his company probed only public ports on consumer computers, that it knew where every peer-to-peer file was going, and that a major bust is coming in October for movie pirates. "How does BayTSP know what ports are public?" asked my critics. How can BayTSP have any impact outside the United States? And the Department of Justice has said it isn't likely to pursue cases that don't involve damages of at least $100,000, so nothing will happen anyway. I'm wrong, wrong, wrong, they say, except of course, I am not wrong at all. Those were Ishikawa's words, remember, not mine. I'm just the messenger.

http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020919.html

From September 19, 2002

Mark Ishikawa came to the data security business from the Dark Side, having beenbusted years ago for breaking into the network at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Preferring employment to jail time, he became a security consultant for the Lab and a lot of other places. Eventually, Ishikawa started a large ISP and web hosting company that he sold at a profit. Now he runs BayTSP.

BayTSP's business falls into two areas?law enforcement and anti-piracy?andit uses the same tools for both businesses. These tools are spider programs that scour the most traveled parts of the Internet looking for users who are offering to others files that are either illegal to even own or at least illegal to share. An example of the former is child pornography. BayTSP tracks for the FBI the global carriage of kiddy porn. When a big child pornography bust takes place, it is generally on the basis of evidence gathered by BayTSP.

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Deepundercover Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 312	Mark Ishikawa Of Bay TSP He said in the New York Times that he did not want to be associated with porn. Yet I recall his name coming up all the time in porn circles. Am I confusing him with someone else? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/08/bu...l?pagewanted=2" MARK ISHIKAWA, the chief executive of BayTSP, disputes that. He said his company worked for Mr. Knipe almost four years ago, before the threat of lawsuits became common enough to present a real danger to downloaders. "He would have a much different effect today," he said of Mr. Knipe. In general, Mr. Ishikawa said, pornography businesses have not been a good market for his services, which can cost from $10,000 to $50,000 a month, depending on the volume of work. "Nobody wanted to spend the money," he said. It was just as well, he said: "We don't want to be known in the porn space." Yet, I've been following the porn industry for years and Mark Ishikawa's name keeps coming up. http://www.google.com/search?as_q=&n...com&safe=o ff Here's a search of AVNOnline.com, where are there are four mentions http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020926.html Robert X. Cringely writes 9/26/02 After last week's column about BayTSP and its CEO, Mark Ishikawa, I received hundreds of critical e-mail messages. For those who missed the column, it is available under the "Old Hat" button on this page. For those who can't be bothered to find that button, I explained that BayTSP is a Silicon Valley company that tracks pornographers for the FBI, and music and movie pirates for major movie studios and record labels. This makes BayTSP the bad guy to those who oppose the law it generally acts to enforce, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. What's strange is that my hundreds of messages were, for the most part, less critical of BayTSP than they were of my choosing to write about it. The messages generally nit-picked at what the writers perceived as flaws in my column. I had written that Ishikawa's business card gave only a post office box, so readers searched domain listings and found BayTSP's address. I quoted Ishikawa as saying that kiddie porn was a precursor to child abductions, that child abductions were a growing problem. "Not so!" claimed the e-mailers, saying there was no proven connection between kiddie porn and violence, and that abductions were actually going down, not up, in frequency. And I quoted Ishikawa as saying that his company probed only public ports on consumer computers, that it knew where every peer-to-peer file was going, and that a major bust is coming in October for movie pirates. "How does BayTSP know what ports are public?" asked my critics. How can BayTSP have any impact outside the United States? And the Department of Justice has said it isn't likely to pursue cases that don't involve damages of at least $100,000, so nothing will happen anyway. I'm wrong, wrong, wrong, they say, except of course, I am not wrong at all. Those were Ishikawa's words, remember, not mine. I'm just the messenger. http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20020919.html From September 19, 2002 Mark Ishikawa came to the data security business from the Dark Side, having beenbusted years ago for breaking into the network at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Preferring employment to jail time, he became a security consultant for the Lab and a lot of other places. Eventually, Ishikawa started a large ISP and web hosting company that he sold at a profit. Now he runs BayTSP. BayTSP's business falls into two areas?law enforcement and anti-piracy?andit uses the same tools for both businesses. These tools are spider programs that scour the most traveled parts of the Internet looking for users who are offering to others files that are either illegal to even own or at least illegal to share. An example of the former is child pornography. BayTSP tracks for the FBI the global carriage of kiddy porn. When a big child pornography bust takes place, it is generally on the basis of evidence gathered by BayTSP.