Plus we received this gem via email:
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 -- This mail is sent via contact form on takedownpiracy.com
A few years ago there were 2 really big adult torrent sites. Empornium and PureTNA. Once DMCA companies such as mine and others started hammering these sites with DMCAs, combined with lawyers threatening to shut them down, these 2 sites eventually folded.
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.
MARINA DEL REY, Calif.—Takedown Piracy (TDP) has developed a stronger, more aggressive version of its acclaimed infringement remover, the Aikido Program. The original custom tool 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. 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.
Piracy has become quite the controversial topic in our country. The mere mention of the word ‘copyright’ is likely to illicit passionate opinions one way or the other. Nearly every day we read stories about producers suing someone over copyright infringement. And yet a good four years after online piracy really exploded in popularity, many of you are still in the dark about what exactly online piracy is and what you can do about it.
One Year After Launching a Full-Time Operation, TDP Is the
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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Check out the latest column from Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass in the November issue of AVN Magazine:
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Recently, the US House of Representatives introduced a “rogue websites” bill to counter the absolute torrent (pun intended) of foreign copyright infringers who make a living by stealing and trading in the intellectual property of others. Here’s some snippets of the article from Xbiz:
“The legislation would let the U.S. Attorney General seek court orders to block foreign websites that steal and sell U.S. products.”
““Rogue websites that steal and sell American innovations have operated with impunity,” Smith said. “The online thieves who run these foreign websites are out of the reach of U.S. law enforcement agencies and profit from selling pirated goods without any legal consequences.””
Then we get a quote from an attorney since they know everything and aren’t motivated by money at all right? But this attorney is an expert in this matter because he represents a large number of *cough* alleged *cough* copyright infringers.
“This bill, like the companion Protect IP Act pending in the Senate, will impose undue burdens upon online service providers to monitor and police user activity, and ultimately stifle free speech on the Internet,” adult industry attorney Larry Walters told XBIZ.
“While it may be appropriate to consider new approaches to protecting intellectual property in the digital age, shutting down websites based on mere allegations is inconsistent with fundamental constitutional values such as due process and freedom of expression.”
Now here’s the thing to keep in mind. Walters is an attorney. Of course he would be opposed to the government doing anything that cuts his profession out of their piece of the pie. There are literally 100s of 1000s of foreign-based copyright infringers. According to Lawrence Walters, if you’re a copyright holder, you should have to sue each and every one of them individually. That in essence would bankrupt copyright holders so of course no one will do it. What this means is that as long as the government doesn’t pass tough copyright laws there will always exist a problem with piracy. And lawyers like Walters will be there to represent the pirate and another attorney will be there to represent the copyright holder. At the end of the day…the lawyers win. The only things lawyers will ever oppose are things that don’t require a lawyer. One wonders how Walters would feel about a law that would require an individual to be accompanied by a lawyer at all times. Quite the win/win scenario for attorneys eh?
Or like the old Demotivator poster says:
“If you’re not a part of the solution, there’s good money to be made in prolonging the problem.”
So yesterday I posted an email sent to me by an anonymous emailer. I did not edit the email in any way and I did not even comment on it. I just posted it. Also, like I do with every comment I get from my haters, I approved the only comment made on the article so far. Which to be fair wasn’t from one of my haters, but just someone who disputed the verbiage used by the anonymous emailer.
Today I was alerted to the fact that once again, the website Wjunction was abuzz with references to me. I have no problem with this and I think healthy debate is great for everyone. I would have liked to have posted my thoughts on Wjunction but my past accounts there were both suspended and for a time my IP was banned. I imagine this was the work of someone who just didn’t like me and my company and NOT indicative of Wjunction’s current management who seem to be very fair and open to what it is I do.
So I will answer the comments made in that thread here so that my detractors and supporters can understand my position on these matters.
From: Mr Anonymous
Subject: Random
Message Body:
I came across your site and figured you’d like to know the following:
FileSonic and wUpload are the same owners/site. WUpload was setup as a backup plan in case filesonic ever gets taken to court or giving a lawsuit (like hotfile did). This way, if one goes down, the other remains. I did get their company records and what not, from the appropriate government resource (you can also pay to see their accounting), they are run by the same people, a couple of unprofessional kids.
WJunction, you said seems to be used by many people in “warez”. You should know this already but wjunction was started as a warez webmaster forum, it was created by the katz.cd staff at the time as a place to offer support for their site. It is a warez forum and always will be. Also at this time it has a joint ownership, a dutch guy and some anonymous guy.
If you really want to take these sites down, I suggest you get in contact with BREIN or, in the case of the filehosts, a US equivalent.
If BREIN were to take down ECATEL, a “bulletproof” host, world spam would drop, half the warez websites in the world would die and everyone else would rush to remove their sites from the country (NL).
As for the filehosts, their mistake is that they advertise directly, personally, to the members of wjunction, a warez forum. In court, this would prove that they aim to host warez and know full well that they are. In which case, safe harbour provisions would no longer apply because they are asking pirates to store copyrighted data on their servers. This is similar to how hotfile’s lawsuit came about.
Someone will take these hosts down one day, it just takes effort and time. They are run by kids, they would never stand a chance in court, so as soon as they get a lawsuit on their hands, they’re done for.
