Your Favorite Adult Companies Give Up Info To Gov
 

I was reading over the FTC?s website about this spam crap that recently took place. What I found was mind blowing. This isn?t a bash against the companies that settled but it is fucked up. They agreed to some very fucked up terms. Companies that settled are: (BangBros.com Inc, RK NetMedia Inc, Ox Ideas, Inc) (MD Media) (APC Entertainment Inc)(Pure Marketing Solutions LLC) (Internet Matrix Technology )

You can read it yourself: Go to July 20th.
http://www.ftc.gov/os/2005/07/index.htm#20
Read the Stipulated Order ? Sections 4 & 5

Here is just a cut of a few things they must provide:
?A list that identifies every person who is marketing or promoting, through
commercial email messages, any goods or services of a Defendant since
entry of this Order;? ? U.S. mailers you are fucked, complaint or not.

?Accounting records that reflect revenue generated by sales to individuals
through an affiliate program and corresponding disbursements to participants
Defendant?s affiliate program on an individual basis, including copies
recently deposited check for each such participant paid by check;? ? The rest of us.

You should read everything they have to give up. And you should thank the companies that said NO to these agreements: (T.J. Web Productions LLC) (Cyberheat Inc.) (Impulse Media Group)

So the GOV can?t get a list of people to bust for 2257 because of the FSC, but now they have a list, a rather large list.

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Some info about spam and MicroShit?s BS company..

Paragaph Cuts From This Article By NWSource
"Microsoft provided help with the FTC's investigation upon the agency's request, said Microsoft attorney Aaron Kornblum. It offered evidence and analysis of e-mails received in more than 130,000 free Hotmail accounts set up several years ago as "traps," he said."

?The traps have been in place since 2003?

?The company has also filed more than 100 lawsuits against spammers and 119 against so-called phishers?

?Kornblum said Microsoft's 12 full-time Internet-safety attorneys, investigators and paralegals first collect evidence?

damn thats some dirty shit. :mad:

Shit - Meet fan.

Since 2003 huh? Something tells me this is only the beginning.

And as far as giving up info in settlements. Wow.

Well at least it says they only have to give up information on affiliates who promote via email, not all the affiliates.

But yeah, props to the companies who are fighting this.

Good find, Doc. Thanks for the link...

Just so you know some of the agreements are different. I won't call out names but this is part of some peoples agreements.

"A list of all names under which each Defendant did or currently does business since entry of this Order;"

bangbros and pipecrew fucked their mailers lol

classy

Is this the part where ithe IRS gets involved?

Could somebody translate those companies into the programs that they run...

bangbros.com Inc = bangbros thats all you need to know

looks like it applies only to mailers and not affiliates...

BangBros.com Inc, RK NetMedia Inc, Ox Ideas, Inc
http://www.bangbrosonline.com
http://www.nastydollars.com
http://www.oxcash.com

APC Entertainment Inc
www.adultplayersclub.com

Pure Marketing Solutions LLC
http://www.purecash.com

MD Media
http://www.pimproll.com (aka ARS)

Not sure..
Internet Matrix Technology

big deal, I really dont se any problem in that.. so what they have our mail adresses.
the only people that have something to fear it the spammers, and they pretty much dont care since most is set up outside the us

I told you Tax evasion is so much easier then going for a obscenity charge. All those people that want to get paid by epassporte who see it as a way to get around the system. The system will find you ,they always do.

They ALL have to provide either a list of ALL clients (webmasters) or accounting records of ALL webmasters. They do get a list one way or another.

keep on believing that.

tell us what it was like to be served by the ftc or the fbi or whoever does what they do to spammers. blanket prosecution, are you familiar with that?

its when they throw out a big net and real everyone in... then they ask questions later.

good luck!

That part of it was ALL affiliates - not just people that were doing emails - and is the part where they gave up all of their WMs :(

"Well, no shit!"

:1orglaugh poking fun at bangbros audio mouseover. :winkwink:

Wow the link is a long read

Nice... here's the info on Internet Matrix Technology:

"Defendant IMT is one of the webmasters that participates in Pure Marketing?saffiliate program. IMT also participates in other, similar affiliate programs. 10. IMT advertises and promotes Pure Marketing?s web sites through widelydistributed commercial emailmessages that contain sexuallyexplicit pictures or text. Sinceatleast August 17, 2004, Defendant IMT hasmailed numerous email messagesthat advertiseand promote Pure Marketing?s commercial web sites to computers used in interstate orforeign commerce and communication."

This sounds like the company that pointed the finger.

glad i dont mail anymore, bangbros would have ruined my life :(

RIP bangbros

cocksuckers
lol

die bitches.. p.s. i <3 pipecrew

There will be a TON of irs fallout from this....this is how they will tie everything together....you are talking about a list of ALL affiliates of some pretty big proggies...AND COPIES OF THEIR LAST PAYMENTS!

Which may mean cancelled checks which have the individuals bank account #'s on them.....pretty easy to follow that info......bad times for the larger affiliates who promoted these programs......

they are not the only one that did that. This started 3 years ago.

Wow is all I can say

Glad I dont do biz with any of them

Knowing this is ROUND 1 kinda worries me.. The FTC IS going after more companies, which means more information, more settlements, etc.. I wonder who is next to fight?

So free email programs are done i take it ?

I pay my company taxes on every dime I earn so I'm not worried.. Check, Wires, Epassport Payments, etc.. But I guess I can see were some webmasters should be worried. I do know of a few "smaller" guys that just pocket the money.. Looks like the IRS will be busy.

hey tanker, did you receive my email?

glad i have paid my taxes the last 5 years lol

sucks that i pay so much though..


Dear president bush... will you please give better tax breaks to the rich and fuck the poor more?

thanks
trey

Who is considered a mailer though? If you have a guy who has some little opt in list doing 3 joins a day was his info given up also

dayum :/

sucks to be a mailer promoting those companies...

who is tj web productions?

This is a common quote...but my accountant tells me...they can ALWAYS find something.....i do not know many folks who come through an audit totally unscathed.....maybe an auto lease mis-represented....maybe some entertainment over exempted...something is ALWAYS there......the drama of just sitting through an audit is enough to make you sick....

I'm not particularly worried. So the FTC has my address now, big deal. I'm not in violation of any 2257's, I don't mail and I'm paying my taxes. The IRS had this information anyways, so if there was any actions the FTC wanted to pursue, it just took a court order to the IRS to release it. They just simplified the process as far as I'm concerned.
WG

Yup, I went through a 2 year federal investigation. Clean as could be. Had 2 accounting errors (we admitted to and paid for it), and too many business expenses related to travel. I thought they were all legit but hey, they'll find something to justify their time. It's not something I want to relive anytime soon.
WG

adultpaymaster

p.s. Mr Bush, please pardon ALL my relatives for doing bad things. they didnt mean it.
thanks again
trey