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For more information about Takedown Piracy, visit HERE.

During its 3-years, Takedown Piracy has made customer service a priority.  Clients are continually provided with detailed reports on all removed copyright infringements, while having the ability to contact Takedown Piracy 16 hours a day.  As a result, Takedown Piracy has an exemplary retention rate.

A client of Takedown Piracy for 2 years, pro wrestler Colt Cabana states, “I’m forever indebted to Takedown Piracy!  Only 3 days after I put out my completely independent movie, word was out it had hit the torrent sites, YouTube, and more.  After funding the whole project myself, this was a scary thought.  This is when Takedown Piracy came in and saved the day (and maybe my life).  Weeks later I had known Internet pirates telling me they couldn’t find my movie anywhere—it was such a great feeling.  I can’t speak more highly about Nate and Takedown Piracy.  They’re really helping the little guy fight the good fight.”

Indie DVD distributor Blue Underground, Inc. has been protected by Takedown Piracy for over a year.  President Willian Lustig says, “Takedown Piracy has opened my eyes to the pervasive, ugly, digital-age underbelly of Internet piracy.  I’m sure Takedown Piracy’s tenacious copyright notice campaign on behalf of Blue Underground has given some pirates pause before going through the effort of posting my company’s copyrighted properties.”

Takedown Piracy also safeguards the digital content of lesbian erotica producer Girlfriends Films.  Vice President Moose says, “It is impossible to predict how much money we would lose if pirates were allowed to steal our movies unchecked, but thanks to Takedown Piracy, we’ll never have to know.  Even as pirates find new and faster ways to upload our content, Nate and his team are right there removing it before we lose sales.  While the mainstream music and movie industries wait around for the government to intervene in matters of copyright infringement, we are taking the fight right to the pirates with Takedown Piracy.  It is the best, and we are lucky to have its protection.”

“Nate does an amazing job in his ongoing battle with removing stolen content from the internet,” adds actress and adult performer Tanya Tate.  “Without people like Nate continuously and tirelessly protecting the intellectual property of performers and companies, new entertainment would be unfeasible to create.  As a director, performer and producer, I personally want to thank Nate for his work and keeping a proactive watch on my website, TanyaTate.com.  I wholeheartedly recommend using the services of Takedown Piracy to any creator who is concerned about their content.”

Each month, Takedown Piracy’s Nate Glass educates readers of AVN Magazine and AVN.com with insightful business news and expert advice regarding digital content protection.  AVN Managing Editor Steve Javors says, “Congrats to Nate Glass and Takedown Piracy on three years of serving the industry.  It was because of Nate’s ‘boots-on-the-ground’ experience battling piracy that I wanted him to write a column for AVN.  Every month, he provides an insider’s view of the scourge of content creators everywhere.  His columns are informative and really have become a must-read.  Cheers to you, Nate, and here’s to many more years of Takedown Piracy.”

Moved by the support of his clients, Nate Glass says, “From the beginning I knew Takedown Piracy was so much more than a job.  It was a mission.  I believe every single one of my clients has the right to protect their art and content.  Pirates feel entitled to take whatever they want online, but if that mentality goes unchecked, we will see a staggering decrease in the amount of music, movies, and books created.  With the discovery and elimination of each new copyright infringement, and the destruction of torrent and cyberlocker sites, Takedown Piracy is determined to prevent that from happening.”

Takedown Piracy and Nate Glass continue to be in the media spotlight for their renowned effectiveness fighting piracy.  Featured on CNBC.com, TechDirt.com, The Daily.com, the 1709 Blog, and more, word is spreading about the small but mighty company, and its David versus Goliath story.

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

On a larger scale, Takedown Piracy’s custom infringement removal tool, the Aikido Program™, removes hundreds of thousands of copyright infringements at an incredible speed.  Aikido 2.0 magnifies the production by increasing the patrolling range of the program.  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.  Combined with Takedown Piracy’s new SEO program, Search Clean™, infringements are eliminated from even the largest search engines, like Google.

Takedown Piracy actively tracks at least nine different ways content may be pirated, providing widespread coverage.  Takedown Piracy’s army of servers offer protection in the following areas: Cyberlocker sites like Rapidshare, Torrent sites, Tube sites, Auctioned or unauthorized DVD resellers, Search Engines, Image Hosts, Blogs, Forums, Social Media.

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

http://www.km.gov.lv/en/eu/member/copyright_history.html

Here’s a key excerpt:

“During the Soviet Union time in Latvia the Universal or Geneva Copyright Convention was in force. Nevertheless, authors had a very rare chance to control the use of their works. Usually there was no permission requested from author for use of the work, there was no private enterprises or state authority to administer the rights of authors. Even though after the WW II in Latvia functioned department of USSR Copyright organization the main opinion was that “art belongs to nations” therefore everyone could free and without any restrictions use works without paying remuneration. As USSR had not joined the Berne Convention the rights of foreign authors were not observed as well.”

So it turns out the Soviets were big on the freeloading bandwagon too.  There’s a great role model for the copyright-abolitionists of the world.

Doing a little research on what kind of economy the USSR built upon stances like this turned up this website:

http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/sovietcollapse.htm

Choice excerpts:

There were many economic problems for the Soviet Stalinist system. One very general problem was the the lack of incentives for productivity. As anonymous Soviet citizen said

They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.

Lack of incentives for productivity.  Since the purpose of copyright is to create incentives for creators to create, I think the copyright abolitionists of the world might want to take heed.

The Russian economist, Grigory Yavlinsky, who ultimately became an important advisor to Mikhail Gorbachev, became convinced to the need for reform when he investigated the low productivity in the Soviet mines. He found the miners were not working because they had no incentives to work. Said Yavlinsky:

The Soviet system is not working because the workers are not working.

It’s a pretty simple concept.  Since the world works on a system where we have currencies, currencies that you can exchange for goods and currencies that you can acquire more of by doing more or creating more, any system that dis-incentivizes productivity is doomed to fail.

Or as Peter put it in Office Space:

It’s a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don’t see another dime, so where’s the motivation?

The copyright abolitionists who feel that everyone else should provide for them are going down the same road that the Soviets went down.  It just doesn’t work.  It would be great if we could have everything provided for us, but we live in a world with a finite supply of natural resources.  If you want a world without money then you absolutely have to do one of these two things:

1.  Replace oil, and replace it entirely.  Remember that oil is used in the manufacturing of nearly everything.  It’s not just gas in your car.  It’s the plastic in your keyboard, the rubber in your tires and it’s probably a key ingredient in the McRib.  And you must replace it with an energy source that costs absolutely nothing to produce, harness, distribute and implement.  There can be absolutely no cost involved.  Or…

2.  Convince the oil-rich countries to just give it to us for free.  Which will never happen.  And even if it does, we’d be so gluttonous with it that we’d be out of oil by the middle of next week.  If it didn’t cost anything to gas up you might as well drive a Sandcrawler.  I hear Hummer is working on it.

So for the “culture should be free” crowd who, not surprisingly, seem to advocate for the nanny state, I ask thee:  If all of the services and entertainment should be provided to you by the state, who’s tax dollars are funding this?  If there is no incentive to work or produce, how do you fund your little Utopia?  Do you really want your economy hinging on a bunch of Peter Gibbons’?  Ask the USSR how that worked out while they were getting their ass kicked by the capitalist swine of America.

Also, while I have airbrushed out the name of the site you should know a few things:

1.  This site is purely FOR PROFIT.

2.  This site created different sections for the works of different copyright holders.  Something tells me you can’t claim you don’t know what’s going on on your site when you have different sections for specific companies.

3.  This site does not comply with DMCA notices.

4.  This site is not “user uploaded content”.  The only people able to post on this site are the site owners themselves.  You can’t claim ignorance or the “we just index content” when you decide what content is indexed because you’re the one that uploaded it.

5.  Despite being clear cut criminals, there will be a hoard of freeloaders commenting here to defend these actions.

To view Takedown Piracy’s inclusion as a supporter of the Artists’ Bill of Rights, visit http://artists-bill-of-rights.org/about-us/supporters/takedown-piracy/.

For a list of all supporters of the Artists’ Bill of Rights, visit http://artists-bill-of-rights.org/about-us/supporters/.

To read the interview with Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass, visit http://artists-bill-of-rights.org/news/campaign-news/an-interview-with-takedown-piracy%27s-ceo/.

Artists’ Bill of Rights Campaign Manager Gordon Harrison states, “Artists’ Bill of Rights is a campaigning organization promoting respect for the rights of artists; we are delighted to promote the Takedown Piracy service founded by Nate Glass.  The work it is doing to defend its clients from the scourge of piracy is vital.  We are particularly impressed in Takedown Piracy’s use of the power of technology to protect its clients, such as its Aikido program, which discovers pirated copies of clients’ works and issue takedown notices to the sites hosting them.  We wish them continued success in this important task.”

“Everything we do is about protecting people’s artistic property,” says Nate Glass.  “The Artists’ Bill of Rights campaign has the same goals.  They work to achieve a stop to piracy through education of the masses, while we try to stop piracy at the source.  By supporting each other, we are able to cover all our bases and greatly reduce digital content theft.”

Takedown Piracy and Nate Glass continue to be in the media spotlight for their renowned effectiveness combatting piracy.  Featured on CNBC.com, TechDirt.com, TheDaily.com, the 1709 Blog, and more, word is spreading about the small but mighty company, and its David versus Goliath story.

Each month, Nate Glass educates readers of AVN Magazine and AVN.com with insightful business news regarding digital content protection for the adult industry to absorb and learn from.  Through humor and accessible rhetoric, Glass explores issues every owner of digital content should know.  To read Glass’ most recent article, visit http://www.thedigitaleditiononline.com/publication/?i=93457&p=54.

With consumers becoming better educated on the harms of piracy, Glass created the Takedown Piracy Tips Page, so people can help make a difference.  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.  To report a copyright violation using Takedown Piracy’s tip page, visit http://takedownpiracy.com/tips/.

Takedown Piracy actively tracks at least nine different ways content may be pirated, providing widespread coverage.  Takedown Piracy’s army of servers offer protection in the following areas: Cyberlocker sites like Rapidshare, Torrent sites, Tube sites, Auctioned or unauthorized DVD resellers, Search Engines, Image Hosts, Blogs, Forums, Social Media.

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

 About the Artists’ Bill of Rights:

The Artists’ Bill of Rights campaign was originally founded in 2008 by a photographers organization, Pro-Imaging.  The campaign was established to promote a set of ethical principles concerning the use of artists’ intellectual property rights in competitions and appeals seeking use of creative content.  The campaign seeks to persuade organizations from all sectors, private, charitable, public and non-profit to adopt these principles, and in return it promotes its supporters.  The Artists’ Bill of Rights is encouraged to have gained considerable support for this campaign from organizations across the globe. For further information, please visit the Artists’ Bill of Rights website at http://artists-bill-of-rights.org.

 About Takedown Piracy:

Takedown Piracy (TDP) is an anti-piracy service started in April of 2009.  The service was founded by 14-year entertainment industry veteran 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 6.3 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.

That being said, according to this actual poll on a torrent site, 57% of the nearly 44,000 respondents are either buying less now that they discovered free downloads, or stopped paying for content COMPLETELY.  Nearly 44% claim that they stopped paying for content completely once they found piracy sites.  While 40% are either spending the same or more than they were before, with only 9% saying they are spending MORE.  You do the math, sounds like piracy is costing copyright holders losses, at least according to this poll.

Cue the “this poll was fixed by the MAFIAA” drones who believe any time the numbers don’t jive with the narrative they want to advance that the numbers must be wrong.

Dear Mr. Nate,

I don’t care for the technicality of the law in regards to piracy – laws can change.

I care about morality, wrong and right. Of course, they’re 100% subjective, so there are no wrong answers, however..

Since the media industry rakes in Billion upon Billions and every person involved with the media industry who doesn’t have a 7-figure income is technically a contractor who gets paid absolutely regardless of pirating..

Wouldn’t pirating only be classified as “taking from the super-rich and giving to the poor”? Because people who pirate are just that – they don’t have the money to buy a movie at 30$ a pop. And who does? I barely do.

Which is to say, the only people who are hurt by piracy are the people who are already extremely rich.. and are likely to remain extremely rich or even richer even if pirating becomes more widespread than it already is.

So, in summation, I put it to you that piracy might be illegal, but it is not “wrong” as much as stealing a loaf of bread to feed your semi-starving family in a world where the bread shop is filthy rich because bread can be copied as many times as one wants.

I’d love to hear your counterargument,

Chris

Clearly the misconceptions about income show how poorly people understand different industries. But when you equate downloading Transformers with stealing a loaf of bread to feed your family, I lose all respect for you. It’s an insult to actual starving people. You aren’t going to die if you don’t get your Justin Bieber for the week.  Our education and values are so messed up, I don’t even know where to start.

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/