Also you should know that pro-piracy commenters on my site were wishing cancer upon me, however this particular hater seems to think I was the one throwing cancer out there.  For the record, I was the one having cancer (and AIDS too!) wished upon me.  Just makes these hate mails so much more priceless:

From: Jennifer Steffen
Subject: You guys make me sick

Message Body:
I think if people wasted as much time as you guys do busting for piracy then you have wasted your own lives. For people who can’t afford to buy cd’s, dvd’s and games you guys are ruining it for everyone else. You guys have made people who pay for filesonic and fileserver very angry. We can’t get our money back and we were paying for a service that was completely legal. It’s not our faults that you guys are scum of the earth and want everyone to pay for what they can’t afford but you can. I also hope the people who comment on here see how really low they are. Get lives talking about I hope you die of cancer, what is the matter with you people? Are you all sick in the head, you should look in the mirror before commenting on how you percieve others cause your just as ridiculous. I hope this website crashes or someone hacks it so you can really see how childish you all are. I do have a family member dying from cancer and that second to last comment I took very seriously. You want to take down piracy, but let me ask you this why post such ignorant comments, your just as low as the people you all are trying to take down. Get lives and grow up you all disgust me. I am reporting this site and I will make sure you are shut down. Rule number one any content viewed as harassing or ignorant gets taken down first. Hope you all enjoy the little bit of time you have left on this website. Your website is offensive and I will be taking it to my local news so that they can do a news report on how offensive the comments are. I will also be showing them many of the comments you won’t last to the end of the month. Maybey you all should have acted like adults instead of ignorant beings not worth being called humans!

That was hate mail #1.  Here’s #2

Comment:
You all make me sick. The comments you all left are offensive including the second one to the top. I took your comment about cancer very seriously. Your never going to end piracy give it up. If this is what you guys spend all day complaining about then you all need to get real lives. Just because you guys have the money to pay for things doesn’t mean others do. Keep your ignorant comments to yourself and I hope you all know the FBI has it under control. Are you the FBI no so shut the hell up and move on with your life. No wonder why you guys have your computer as your best friends. You all make me sick and your all offensive and I hope one day someone tells all of you that your not even good enough to be called human beings. Take down Piracy is a big joke and there will always be hackers out there to get around you guys. So you are all stupid and Hackers have proven their smarter than all of you and common sense should tell you that. I pay for all my games, music, and dvd’s just like everyone else but you don’t need to ruin it for the people who don’t. So I have notified my local news station they have read your offensive remarks and are investigating the owners and runners of this web site. I hope all who commented on this webpage understand that you all made yourselves look like idiots and it’s all of you who just brought this website down with your snyde comments and offensive remarks. I will also be telling everyone I know on facebook about you guys. Good job now no one will care who you guys are! Now who’s the idiot.

You guys know how bad I want to answer her last question.  But here’s email #3:

Comment:
First of all Nate if your intelligent your not acting like it. You think because you have money you can post offensive comments. I am not a theif and neither is anyone who can’t afford what you can. Oh yeah and it’s people with money who are hacking websites and putting up warez websites, but you’d know that if you were so intelligent wouldn’t you. No one wants to stick up for you because you are the ignorant idiot not anyone else. My mom is dying from cancer you jerk. How would you feel if someone else said the same to you. Your not even a human being your a sad excuse for a human being. The anger your hearing is what you deserve to hear. I bet your parents raised you with better morals and are embarassed by the child they raised. Just to let you know you just sunk this wensite because now I’m turning your offensive comments into every news station I can and you will be named by your profile name so everyone will know who you are a coward standing behind a fake name. Grow some balls and shut your mouth, again your not the FBI let them do their jobs. Shut up, grow up, and stop being so ignorant to everyone around you because you have money. Your just a rich, snobby, little brat, who doesn’t know when to shut your big hole in your face so for everyone who felt offended this comment is to back all of you. I pay for my shit you don’t hear me crying about less fortunate people getting theirs for free. Technically they still have to pay for the service to download with so their still not getting it for free just a little cheaper dumby. So score one for those who posted how ignorante NATE GLASS IS! NATE GLASS Zero what you are!

So, there you have it.  I hope to get the .mp3 of her phone call up soon.

Jennifer, I think you need to re-read the comments I’ve RECEIVED on this site.  I was the one being told “I hope you die from cancer”, and I was the one replying with “as someone who has lost his mother to cancer, I hope you never have to experience losing someone to cancer”.  I’m sorry to hear about your mother, cancer is a killer and it’s a horrible thing for any person and their family and friends to have to go through.  I sympathize with what you are going through and I hope everything works out for you.

Sincerely,

NATE GLASS Zero what you are!

http://creatorsconference.org/video-keynote-robert-levine-and-panel-freedom-of-choice/

From: Arjen <goodluckandhigh5@gmail.com>
Subject: Good work

Message Body:
Hello Nate,

You are a faggot, but I don't hope you get cancer like others. I'm more of the AIDS type of guy. I hope you get AIDS. 

Bye!
Arjen

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The #3 adult torrent site at the time was Cheggit.net and nearly all the old users from Emp and PTNA migrated there to upload and download copyrighted content.

At first the site tried hiding in numerous offshore countries where they would not have to comply with DMCAs but eventually they tried to become DMCA compliant by hiring DMCANotice.com to handle DMCAs.  Once word got around that Cheggit was complying, myself and at least one other removal company began monitoring the site daily resulting in 100s if not 1000s of torrents were being reported every day.  The site complied with these notices quickly and without incident.  This immediately resulted in panic on the forum as users pleaded with the site to move offshore again and to stop removing torrents.  If you’ve seen my “Talk Like A Pirate” screenshots on Facebook, nearly all of them came from this site.  Myself and the other removal company were literally removing content within minutes of it being posted.

Eventually the site went into a maintenance mode, which they had remained in for nearly all of the past week.  Eventually it was revealed today that the site was going dark and shutting down.  The owner (who had been identified as a New Mexico or Oklahoma resident), was vague as to the exact reasoning but mentioned that starting in December 11 (when we started monitoring) it became too difficult to keep the site compliant.  I’m sure there was legal pressure as well and I know my company wasn’t the only one involved in takedowns so a big kudos to everyone else involved.  I know both myself and Eric from RemoveYourContent were on this daily.  I can’t stress this enough how much effort both Eric and myself put into this from our end.  I’m sure more will come out in the coming weeks and we’ll learn about others who were involved in taking this site down, in addition to the general climate post-Megaupload where copyright infringers are learning there are repercussions for violating the rights of others.

No doubt the freeloaders will migrate somewhere else and try and reestablish their den of thieves.  But we will be there waiting.

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Aikido 2.0 magnifies the production by increasing the patrolling range of the program. Combined with Takedown Piracy’s new SEO program, Search Clean, infringements are eliminated from even the largest search engines, like Google.

To view a statistical breakdown of infringements removed by Takedown Piracy and its patent-pending Aikido Program, click here.

Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass states, “The Aikido Program is exclusive to TDP, playing a large role in the over five million copyright infringements we’ve removed to date. Committed to innovation, we developed version 2.0 as a way to magnify and maximize Aikido’s effectiveness. Takedown Piracy’s customers may rest assured they have the best piracy protection possible.”

Aikido 2.0 uses a PHP script to exploit large piracy aggregation sites. It takes sites meant to assist illegal downloads and transforms them into valuable assets in anti-piracy. True to its martial art namesake, the Aikido Program uses the strength of its opponent to its own advantage.

Three of the largest piracy site aggregators are now utilized by Aikido 2.0, which leaves pirates without a place to hide. The progressive program exploits pirates reliance on the exposure derived from aggregators, exposing and destroying them in the process.

In addition to utilizing the data Aikido 2.0 gathers to remove infringing links from file hosting services, Takedown Piracy also works the data into its renowned SEO program, Search Clean. The results are mass amounts of removals from highly visible search engines, like Google.

Takedown Piracy actively tracks at least nine different ways content may be pirated, providing widespread coverage. Takedown Piracy offers protection in the following areas: cyberlocker sites like Rapidshare, torrent sites, tube sites, auctioned or unauthorized DVD resellers, search engines, image hosts, blogs, forums and social media.

Wanting to better involve the fans of Takedown Piracy’s numerous artist clients, the company created a tips page. Millions of additional eyes provide Takedown Piracy with an army seeking out illegal downloads on torrent, tube and cyberlocker sites. Users are asked to report the copyright owner and a link to the infringement.

What we call piracy today is actually made up of several different forms of copyright infringement, each with their own unique characteristics as diverse as the users that engage in them.  With these different variations of piracy, copyright holders need to implement strategies that are flexible depending on how their content is being attacked.  For example, spending thousands of dollars to locate and sue a Vietnamese uploader who is making $3/day from infringing your copyright is probably not a good idea.  On the other hand, allowing someone making millions of dollars trafficking in stolen property to get off with just a warning probably isn’t going to cut it either.

As a content owner you have options when it comes to how you approach the piracy problem.  While there is no one silver bullet to thwart the pirating of your content, you should enact a plan to mitigate the damage it does to your bottom line.

The first option is usually the gut reaction most people have when they find their content being pirated.  Sue any and everybody.  It’s natural to feel hurt when something you worked hard on is used by someone else without your permission and compensation.  While suing this person might sound satisfying at first, it shouldn’t be something you rush into.  Keep in mind that the allure of pirating is getting something for nothing.  As a result, a large segment of the piracy industry isn’t based upon making a lot of money.  This means that in many cases suing a pirate won’t net you any money in return, and you’ll likely spend quite a bit in lawyer’s fees to even get this person in court.  Before undertaking a lawsuit you should really sit down with your attorney and decide what you hope to get out of the litigation and if it is a winnable case.

The second option is to handle your piracy problem in-house.   Sounds great at first to keep costs down, but  time is money and you have to decide for yourself whether this is something you can afford to put long hours into at the expense of the rest of your duties, or whether it’s better to leave it up to the experts.  While it might be tempting to put this task on the same person that answers your phones, you need to consider what kind of results you would be getting by instead putting this matter in the hands of a skilled professional in the field of anti-piracy.

Another option you have is to simply do nothing and hope that someone else solves the problem for you.  For too long this was the option of preference for many copyright holders.  Eventually the piracy problem started affecting their bottom lines and content creators started taking a more vested interest in protecting their content.  However, the do-nothing approach is still rampant and actually contributing to growing the piracy industry.  To do nothing is to essentially license your content for free.  Pirated material rarely expires and unless someone removes it, a do-nothing approach results in more content for the piracy sites to offer.  Pirates will also figure out that your content can be pirated with impunity, making them more likely to steal your content than other pro-active producers.  In actuality, you’re only digging your own grave so it goes without saying that this is simply the worst and least responsible option.

Your last option is to contract an expert to help you in your piracy problem.  Your anti-piracy strategy will determine what kind of expert you need.  It could be a lawyer with experience in the field of Intellectual Property or it could be a content removal company like Takedown Piracy, and it could just be a combination of both.  A good content removal company can handle all the various types of piracy and in the event you decide you want to pursue litigation, they can often help you build your case.  In the case of Takedown Piracy, we have over years of experience dealing with piracy.  This means that we have built systems to reach piracy sites that you aren’t even aware of and we know how to get around the obstacles that pirates have tried to put in place to thwart us.  We’ve developed platforms like the Takedown Piracy Tips (http://www.takedownpiracy.com/tips) program that uses crowd-sourcing infringement reporters to help be your eyes and ears on the internet.  Takedown Piracy’s systems are built to be as efficient and as thorough as possible.  This means we know where to go to find your content, and who to contact to get it taken down as quickly as possible.  This is a process that by design can be difficult for copyright holders to master on their own.

Whatever strategy you employ, the most important thing is that you are doing something.  If every copyright owner were to enact some form of anti-piracy we could make life very difficult for these would-be thieves.

Most Trusted Source for Digital Content Protection!

November 21, 2011 — CHATSWORTH, Calif. — Takedown Piracy has removed its milestone 5 millionth copyright infringement of digital content.  The 5 million infringements include an assortment of movies, photos, artwork, and text from clients ranging from mainstream movie producers and athletes to video games and entertainment producers.  Takedown Piracy is pleased to offer protection from piracy to producers of digital content, around the world.

To view a statistical breakdown of infringements removed by Takedown Piracy, visit http://takedownpiracy.com/stats/.

To report a copyright violation using Takedown Piracy’s tip page, visit http://takedownpiracy.com/tips/.

Removal number 5 million comes only one year after Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass turned the company into a full-time venture.  “We take a lot of pride in each copyright infringement we remove, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit the 5 millionth doesn’t feel a bit more special,” says Glass.  “With the Aikido Program combined with our emphasis on search engine removals, our removal rate is increasing exponentially, as is our message – content will be protected and we will not be stopped in our mission.”

Among the many attributes separating Takedown Piracy from its competitors is its new custom tool, the Aikido Program.  The progressive tool is removing hundreds of thousands of copyright infringements each month.  The Aikido Program is exclusive to TDP and uses a PHP script to exploit a large piracy aggregation site.  It takes a site meant to assist illegal downloads and transforms it into a valuable asset in anti-piracy.  True to its martial art namesake, the Aikido Program uses the strength of its opponent to its own advantage.

Wanting to better involve the fans of Takedown Piracy’s numerous artist clients, the company created a tips page.  Millions of additional eyes provide Takedown Piracy with an army seeking out illegal downloads on torrent, tube and cyberlocker sites.  Users are asked to report the copyright owner and a link to the infringement.

About Takedown Piracy:

Takedown Piracy (TDP) is an anti-piracy service started in April of 2009.  The service was founded by Nate Glass.  TDP offers copyright holders an affordable and highly effective means to fight back against content thieves.  For less than the cost of a part-time, minimum wage worker, copyright holders can benefit from Glass’ expertise and passion for protecting copyrighted content from thieves.  To date, TDP has removed over 5 million content infringements.  Leading piracy websites are closely monitored to always provide clients with immediate service and protection.  Every month detailed reports are provided to clients with each action taken on their behalf.  A price can’t be placed on trust, but with Takedown Piracy, clients can be sure the company has their best interest in mind 100% of the time.  For more information, visit www.TakedownPiracy.com or www.Twitter.com/TakedownPiracy.

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