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Originally Posted by AdultKing
We'll be crawling and reporting via your abuse@ email address.
Until you agree to de-activate infringing publisher ad zones the matter is not settled and we'll keep this thread updated until your network becomes compliant.
Every time a pirate sees one of his buddies using Plugrush they will jump on the bandwagon and you will never be rid of the problem.
The only way to distance yourself from piracy is to outright reject it, the only plausible reason to keep ads running on pirate sites is to gain some benefit from doing so. I am guessing that the real reason is because you know there is a lot of traffic involved if you cut them all off.
You have our email address, you're welcome to come back to the table and discuss the matter at any time.
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My reason for not disabling the ads is that I see it as more beneficial to our industry if we try to direct surfers away from sites with pirated content instead of letting them be stuck at sites who give the product away. I understand that it would be easier for you if we disabled the adzones, but I think our industry would benefit more from it than you do. The more revenue we can generate by legitimate destinations the better.
We have no need to make a stance or statement about our view on piracy, and have no interest in actively fighting for the cause. We're in this to do business, and spend our energy on things that will help this industry generate more revenue, and get more people to buy porn. Others like you can get paid to fight. We accknowledge that piracy is a problem, but I disagree fundamentally on what the solution to it is. I don't think spending a lot of time, energy and funds to employ people to do a ton of manual work in order to police things is the way to keep this industry prosper. I think spending as little energy on that as possible and rather focusing on growing, being creative and comming up with better products is the way to go about things. I accept that you have a completely different view on it, but the fact that you are threatening to go after my company and payment processors and potentially ruin things for all our publishers and advertisers is pissing me off. You are spending your energy on completely wrong things, and are making a lot of other people do it as well.
We can probably figure out a compromise though, like us writing a html comment on disabled adzones with a message about it being disabled, and traffic not tracked, so you and other webmasters and pirates will see it, but the general surfer does not. This way we have met all your criterias.
We don't benefit from piracy by not tracking or getting paid for the traffic,
we don't let publishers benefit from it for the same reason,
You can see that we have disabled them,
surfer still get routed away from pirate sites,
Advertisers who have actual porn to promote gets free traffic and this industry grows.
Sounds fair?