Blue Underground Hires Takedown Piracy

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Nate Glass

CHATSWORTH, Calif.—Indie DVD distributor Blue Underground has retained the services of Takedown Piracy to protect its content against online theft. Since enlisting Takedown Piracy, copyright infringements against Blue Underground are virtually eradicated. Takedown Piracy protects the distributor’s re-mastered copies of rare cult classics ranging from grindhouse to action to horror. The boutique anti-piracy company’s affordable and highly effective services allow anyone to utilize it against torrent, tube and cyberlocker sites publishing stolen content.

“Takedown Piracy has opened my eyes to the pervasive, ugly, digital-age underbelly of Internet piracy,” said Blue Underground, Inc. President William Lustig. “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.”

Blue Underground has been responsible for the release of such classics as Tinto Brass’s Salon Kitty, Jess Franco’s Venus In Furs and several volumes of Al Goldstein’s seminal (and sexy) New York cable show, Midnight Blue. For a list of Blue Underground’s newest releases, visit this page.

“Blue Underground does a great service to the artistic community by preserving and releasing films that would otherwise disappear”, added Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass. “Takedown Piracy is also protecting these movies, but in a different manner. We are ensuring a great studio like Blue Underground is able to operate by preventing online theft of its movies. Everyone has a right to safeguard their artistic endeavors.”

While Glass started Takedown Piracy two years ago, it wasn’t until November 2010 that he was able to turn it into a full-time venture. Since then, the DMCA notices sent out on any one of TDP’s clients have increased by 400% monthly. Glass restructured and enhanced TDP to increase performance, activity and awareness. TDP monitors leading piracy culprits, providing clients with monthly breakdowns on its success. As the company grows, so does its resources and resolve to protect clients’ content. To date, TDP has removed over 3.5 million copyright infringements for its clients.

Among the many attributes separating Takedown Piracy from its competitors is its new custom tool, the Aikido Program, which is now running on a separate server as well. The progressive tool is capable of removing 100,000 copyright infringements in only 24 hours. 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. To report a copyright violation using Takedown Piracy’s tip page, click here.

To view a statistical breakdown of infringements removed by Takedown Piracy, visit here.

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This screenshot pretty much sums up every freeloader thief pirate on the internet

Posted on August 11, 2011 by Nate Glass

Yes, what do you mean by this phrase “make your own”?  Do you actually expect a worthless parasite to create something?  It is soooo much easier to just take the hard work of others for your own personal gain.  Prototypical cashwhore pirate.  Contribute nothing, take everything.

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Takedown Piracy Ramps Up Operating Systems

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Nate Glass

MARINA DEL REY, Calif.—Takedown Piracy has increased its operating systems for more effective copyright policing. The increase in computers and servers is in keeping with Takedown Piracy owner Nate Glass’s business model.

Glass is committed to reinvesting revenue back in the company, furthering growth and results.  Now Takedown Piracy is able to dedicate individual operating systems to monitor the various forms of piracy, including cyberlocker infringements, torrents, tube sites and social network sites. The advanced Aikido Program will run off its own server, generating the removal of even more infringements in a shorter time.

“Takedown Piracy began as a passion project for me—something I wanted to do because it’s the right thing to do,” Glass said. “As the company grows, it becomes even more important to hold true to our ideals and vision. Reinvesting the majority of our revenue is an investment in our customers. It keeps us focused on our mission to remove, prevent and educate the world about piracy.”

For more information regarding Takedown Piracy’s services, click here.

Takedown Piracy utilizes a multi-faceted approach towards preventing online content theft.  Among its array of servers is one dedicated solely to monitoring over 500 cyberlocker forums and blogs daily, as well as sending infringement notices to the sites. Another server’s focus is on BitTorrent sites, tracking the websites responsible for the brunt of torrent infringements. The result is torrent removals and notices sent to Google for non-compliant sites.

The observance of the largest tube and streaming sites, plus Twitter, requires a separate server, which generates infringement notices. In addition, a server is utilized as the Googler. It constantly runs through Google results for client’s properties and generates removal notices.

Among the many attributes separating Takedown Piracy from its competitors is its new custom tool, the Aikido Program, which is now running on a separate server as well. The progressive tool is capable of removing 100,000 copyright infringements in only 24 hours. 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 arts 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.

To report a copyright violation using Takedown Piracy’s tip page, click here. To view a statistical breakdown of infringements removed by TDP, click here.

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You won’t believe the email a pirate sent me today.

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Nate Glass

Nate, What’s wrong with you?
Why are you so aggressive ?
Who gave you the job? Not your client, It us, Nate.What will you be without us?

This is a guy who owns a piracy site whom was giving me the runaround on removing content I had reported to him, which forced me to escalate the matter to his hosting provider.

Do you see the incredible irony here?  Here we have a guy who operates a piracy site, a site that totally subsists off of using the content created by others, and he’s telling me that somehow I should be grateful to him for creating my job?  This is irony on the ‘head-exploding’ level.  Apparently this guy thinks that before he came along, I was just shambling through the streets with no job and now that he’s figured out how to steal from others, I should thank him for giving me something to do.

Try that the next time you get arrested.  “Well yeah officer I know I murdered her but if it weren’t for murderers and rapists, where would you be?  Unemployed…so how about a thank you?”

No dude, you didn’t give me this job.  You don’t get a cookie for being a lowlife thief.  You aren’t a job creator, you are a parasite that only exists because my clients would rather remove content than to take you to court.

Apparently the concept of Irony is not one that pirates are familiar with.

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Update on Filesonic and Wupload being so similar

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Nate Glass

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the similarities between Filesonic and Wupload:

http://takedownpiracy.com/2011/06/wupload-filesonic-same-company-or-just-copycats/

Turns out, according to what I’ve been told…the “front man” for Wupload is the cousin of the guy running Filesonic.  How convenient?

Recently Filesonic announced that they were partnering with Vobile to do digital fingerprinting to ID copyrighted material being distributed on their network.  Now unless I’m missing something, this will not be possible with password encrypted rar/zip files and I don’t see how they would do it with even unpassworded  (?) rar/zip files since they would have to combine all the files themselves.

So this seems on the surface to be pretty meaningless.  The only thing Filesonic could do would be to restrict all rar/zip files, which would pretty much ensure that the copyright infringing uploaders that Filesonic’s business is based upon would flee to another service.

If only the people behind Filesonic had another cyberlocker service that they could put all their efforts into….hmmmmm….maybe they should call their “cousin”.  :O)

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Profiting from piracy? Apparently OK with this pirate

Posted on July 1, 2011 by Nate Glass

The longstanding unwritten rule of the filesharing scene was that it was taboo to make money off of piracy.  Years ago that meant “click my banners to get the password to my FTP site” were considered garbage profiteers that were denounced by the piracy community.  These days with “we pay you to pirate” cyberlocker sites and “we have a shitload of ads on our site” torrent sites, that line is being crossed more than ever before.  What’s even worse is that those voices from the “it’s not cool to profit from this” school of thought are dwindling as more self-serving, selfish, entitled kids dominate the piracy landscape.

Case in point – recently a man in Scotland was found guilty of recording movies in a theater which he then would upload to “pay you for your pirated material” websites.  He was profiting from piracy.  When TorrentFreak did an excellent story about this situation, thankfully a large number of comments were denouncing this guy.  However one of the first comments sums up the mentality of an ever-increasing number of new-school freeloaders:

Why does it matter if he was profiting? The central point of filesharing is that culture should be free. So long as we can get it for free, does it really matter who is making money? I can honestly say that I don’t care if he makes money or the companies make money so long as I can get it for free.

The problem with this guy’s post is that he’s living in a fantasy world.  Or his parent’s basement, I’m not sure, but he definitely isn’t living outside because if he was, he’d realize that there is FREE CULTURE EVERYWHERE!  There are music festivals, art exhibits, parks, public libraries, museums, beaches and gatherings of all kinds that involve little to no money.  What this guy is really complaining about is that he believes he should be able to dictate what he considers culture and which of those cultures should be free and in his case…all of them.  This dictatorial edict that creative artists subscribe to his whims is not only insulting but shows the level of naivete that runs rampant through this new generation of filesharing aficionados.

Does it matter who’s making money?  Ummm…if you worked a 40 hour workweek and your boss decided to pay someone else for your work would that matter to you?  Something tells me it would.  If the people creating the culture decide to do it for-profit then they better be the ones getting paid for it.  Otherwise they won’t do it anymore.  And I’m sure the pro-filesharing crowd would be content with nothing but free subpar quality art right?  These pseudo-socialist-but-selfishly-capitalist guys never run out of things to justify their self-serving interests.  These guys already can endlessly complain about the merits of for-profit creations that they aren’t even paying for or in any material way supporting.  They aren’t above running to the internet to complain about non-profit pursuits I’m sure.

These guys believe in a world where everything is free and any attempt to squelch their Spaghetti Monster given right to watch a bootleg copy of Transformers is, in only their minds, tantamount to what the Jews endured under Nazi Germany.  However at no time have they offered any solutions as to how you convince the Middle East to give away oil so that that precious petroleum can be used to create their new computer monitor.  They’ve yet to outline how to convince the rest of the world that works for a living that we should all just be unemployed consumers who put nothing into the pot but demand that our government stay out of our business except when it comes to coddling us cradle to the grave even though we pay no taxes.

However that’s not the world that those of us over the age of 18 live in.  A world where you learn pretty quick that nobody owes you anything and that you actually have to work and earn the things you enjoy in life.  You stop portraying yourself as a victim and take responsibility for your own actions.  And while you never stop believing in your ideal world, you know that pragmatically, you don’t live in your ideal world, you live in the real world.

But why live in the real world when you can live in the pirate consumer’s fantasy world?  A world that’s made possible by other people’s tax dollars, other people’s creativity and one in which artists receive nothing in return for their investment but internet keyboard warrior snark.  A world where the pinnacle of life is achieved only by getting the most Likes of your sarcastic anonymous comments.  Where the measure of a man is not by how he provided for his family and the legacy he left behind but in the size of his external hard drive.  In this world freeloaders just wait for that moment when Vulcans land on Earth and our entire world abandons all currency and becomes a world of whatever-you-want, whenever-you-want…at no charge.  Ya know, the kind of world that exists only in a Hollywood movie…and with plenty of seeders.

Please check out the full article on TorrentFreak.  While I don’t often agree with the slant of the stories, they are nonetheless well-done and provocative and offers great insight into just how divided both sides of the copyright argument are.

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Takedown Piracy adds copyright infringers from Twitter, Wjunction

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Nate Glass

Takedown Piracy has always been one of the most aggressive anti-piracy companies when it comes to commercial copyright infringers using Twitter to advertise their illicit and illegal websites. To this end, Takedown Piracy has had 100s and 100s of user accounts suspended and removed from Twitter due to repeat infringements. While our initial focus was to takedown the Twitter accounts of the larger piracy sites (if those sites used Twitter to advertise specific uploads of our clients’ copyrighted materials), we have a few announcements to make:
1. Effective immediately regardless of a site’s Alexa rank/traffic, if you use Twitter to advertise your for-profit piracy site, you will be added to our network of monitored sites. For many upstart content thieves, this will mean that you will have a hard time getting your site off the ground. Too bad. It used to be against the rules of the filesharing scene to monetize copyright infringement, and you not only are breaking the unwritten rules of the scene, but you are breaking the law. If this means you won’t make any money this month from Filesharing, I suggest you look into getting a real job. Here’s a start – http://www.beautyschoolsdirectory.com/barberingschoolsindex.php

2.  If you use the website wjunction.com to advertise your piracy site, we will add you to our network.  While there are many informative and educationally valuable things to learn from wjunction, it has come to our attention that an alarming number of commercial copyright infringers have decided to congregate there in an effort to establish deals with other thieves, find third world slave labor to do the uploading for them, and to plead for compliments about a template that they didn’t design and are most likely using without permission.  It is our stance that these repetitious clone sites contribute nothing to society in any way and effective immediately, sites that we identify as meeting these guidelines will be added to our network of monitored sites.

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Wupload & Filesonic – Same company or just copycats?

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Nate Glass

When you send DMCA notices to file storage sites Filesonic and Wupload you get an eerily similar response both in time and look:


We have deleted the files you requested,

Wupload Abuse team
—————–


We have deleted the files you requested,

Filesonic Abuse team
—————–

These notices usually come in around the same times as well. Wupload is a rather new player on the cyberlocker scene, while Filesonic, which used to be SharingMatrix, is the preferred host for criminal commerical copyright infringers but Wupload has made a huge push recently.

So are they one and the same, or is Wupload just copying Filesonic’s look and feel? Hmmmmmmmm ;)

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Customers vs. Consumers

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Nate Glass

Saw this on another site and I thought it would be great to share it with everyone:

Pirates are not paying customers.

Pirates are not “customers” at all.

Pirates are thieves.

Thieves are not customers because they do not buy.

You have to buy to be a customer.

Pirates and thieves are consumers.

Rats, termites, and boll weevils are also consumers.

But they are not customers because they do not buy what they consume.

A customer is a consumer.

A consumer is not necessarily a customer.

Lot’s of people seem to have difficulty understanding that very simple fact.

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What happens after you use our Report Piracy feature

Posted on June 3, 2011 by Nate Glass

Takedown Piracy has a feature located at http://takedownpiracy.com/tips which gives anyone in the world the platform to report piracy and copyright infringement.  But you may be wondering what happens once you’ve reported something.  Well, here’s your answer:

1.  If the content you are reporting is owned by a copyright holder that uses Takedown Piracy, we immediately begin the process to have the offending content removed.  First we verify the content is indeed owned by our client, and that it is indeed being used without the permission of our client.  Next, we’ll prepare a takedown notice and send it to the appropriate parties so that they can remove the content.  In most cases it takes 24-72 hours from the time you report something to us to the time it’s removed.  We also respond to your report and include our client in our communications, so that our client can contact you directly should they choose to.  We have had instances where reporters have been rewarded by our clients.  This is not mandatory and your results may vary of course depending on the client.

2.  If the content you are reporting is owned by a company that is NOT using the Takedown Piracy program, we will do our best to make contact with the company (or their designated copyright agent) to inform them of the infringements.  At that point it is up to that copyright owner to choose to utilize our service, or to ignore the copyright infringement.  We can not send takedown notices for those copyright owners that have not authorized us to do so.  It is our belief that many copyright owners don’t know how to start tackling piracy and/or believe that they can not afford a service to help them with this task.  By you reporting to us, it gives us a chance to open up a dialogue with copyright owners that we may not currently be in negotiations with.  We can then inform them of their anti-piracy options and get the ball rolling with them.

We also encourage you to use the Twitter button on the Report Piracy page so you can help us spread the word about this feature.  You can feel free to @mention the copyright holder/performer in your Twitter post as well.  Our goal is to create an army of reporters and continue to turn the tide of rampant copyright infringement.  We need your help to do this!

We hope this answers your questions regarding our Report Piracy feature.  If you have further questions, don’t hesitate to use our contact form to get in touch with us.

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