Oh look, a new stalker appears right after the last ones get banned.

Are you trying to suggest something?

Seeing as you don't seem to know, I'll post (with permission) Plug Rush's response to me when I inquired about your relationship with them on the Don't Steal Porn website.

Hello!

Don't Steal Porn (.com) is a site set up by PlugRush as a response to AdultKing's
campaign against sites profiting off pirated adult content.

Ads on sites found to be hosting pirated content would be directed to dontstealporn.com, in an effort to educate the users about the negative sides of pirated content, as well as making sure no one would directly benefit economically from clicks originating from piracy sites.

Sites were to be reported to us, by among others AdultKing, via proper take down notices. If the claims proved to be true, traffic generated by ads on those sites would be directed to dontstealporn.com.

We never saw any proper take down notices come our way, so the project has mostly been dormant since its inception.

We take piracy seriously, and saw the above described solution as a good one at the time. In light of recent discoveries regarding the Stop File Lockers campaign and the people behind it, we have removed any references to AdultKing and organizations related to his activities from the Don't Steal Porn.com website.

We are very unhappy about AdultKing's way of approaching this matter, and we hope the community as a whole has seen the last of his bullying tactics.

PlugRush continues to ban any user, campaign or website found to violate our Terms Of Service, therein sites hosting pirated content.

Regards,

The PlugRush Team

The truth is Plugrush dragged their feet on combatting piracy for over a year - and if that post above is true then it seems they're still dragging their feet.

I wouldn't normally post private correspondence however in the circumstances...

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...1/plugrush.png

When a large portion of your publishing inventory is based on piracy related sites, you're going to be reluctant to remove the sites.

We sent Plugrush hundreds upon hundreds of domains linking to Rapidgator alone, nothing was done to those sites and all but a few of them are still operating.

Plugrush have a great innovative platform, I think they're clever and innovative guys. It's just a shame they won't remove piracy related sites from their network.

So AK. Not only do you blatantly steal content and try to take down your own competition under a scam operation claiming to represent intellectual properties. Now you also publish private conversations and full names of people and companies that aren't public and the company isn't even connected to the one you mention. I mean isn't that what you argued about your own company you own and operate, that runs free hosts and illegal image/filesharing, huh?

And then you proceed to claim that that a large portion of a company's publishers are pirates - do you care to prove this? I realize that you have to define what a large portion is - but it's got to be something like... more than 20% right? Can we agree on that?

So, please prove that 20% or more of their publishers are pirates.

Also, kindly explain why you steal content now that we are at it.

I don't run a file sharing service and neither do any of my companies.

The image hosting service that my company runs is only for adult pay-site affiliates to host approved affiliate content to be posted on legal services.

The free blog service that my company runs is not in competition to yours because firstly you need an invitation code to join, secondly you need to be a real adult pay-site affiliate and you can only post adult affiliate content with links to adult pay-sites using approved affiliate content.

Now contrast this to YOUR operation where I just snapped these screenshots.

Not only do you host blogs linking to illegal file lockers and illegal streaming services offering full length videos stolen from content producers, but you don't do anything to mitigate it.

One of these sites has been up stealing and sharing stolen content on your blog service since March 2014.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...d-elegance.png

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...s-DEstelle.png

The above site links to file lockers such as Datafile which is one of the worst headaches for rights holders at the moment. All over the Christmas / New Year period I have been getting dozens of emails from our members complaining about how bad Datafile is and you are helping one of their upload monkeys steal from this industry.

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...s-Lisa-Ann.png


http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...da-Stevens.png

Then there is the above site, been on your service since at least March 2014, almost a year. Sharing stolen full length movies from dozens of leading adult content producers.

What's worse the above site is monetised by Exoclick - not an affiliate link in sight. It's all stolen, it's all theft and you host it.

There are dozens of more examples I could post where you allow your service to be completely abused while you profit from the advertising revenue gained from hosting pirates.

Plugrush accounts for 2.2% of advertising on all piracy sites.

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Plugrush currently has 10,355 referring domains across it's publishing inventory. Our data shows that 3,291 sites comprise the following categories of sites:

1. Copyright infringing tubes.
2. Forums sharing file locker links
3. Blogs sharing file locker links
4. Free Blog Services that do not deal with copyright infringement
5. File Locker Link Dump Sites
6. File Sharing enabling image host sites.
7. Torrent trackers.
8. Uncategorised.

That's roughly 30% of their referring domains.

These sites include sites like this one that I chose completely randomly

xmovieshare.com

http://stopfilelockers.com/wp-conten...720p-YAPG1.png

A site full of porn torrents and file locker download links. Monetised using Plugrush.

As I have said before and I'll say it again, Plugrush have an amazing platform, it's innovative, novel and is well thought out, it's clever. I have nothing but respect for the platform they built, I just wish they would weed out the piracy based publishers - there are far too many of them.

Markul, my offer still stands to provide you with technology to weed out piracy from your network - you obviously need to do something if you have piracy sites on your blog service that have been there undetected by you for a year.

You are so deluded it's amazing. You first claim to not run a free host, now you admit it then. You then claim to not steal content, even though I showed a screenshot where YOU uploaded stolen content to your own image host and slapped banners all over it.

If that is not theft I do not know what is.

You are welcome - as I've said before - to send over any sites you find, that has pirated content on them and we'll get rid of them. But so far you've sent a few dusin sites and posted some screenshots on GFY. What a champion you are.

As I said, when we are done migrating I will clean house again. You are welcome to send over your lists, I've never said you weren't. But I will not implement shit because you ask me to. Report sites like everyone else and we will act on it.

Fact still is:

1. You steal content and monetize on your own image sharing platform.
2. You take money from rights holders and use it to take down competing services to your own benefit. If you can't see the ethical problems here, you are dumber than I thought.
3. You come up with numbers out of thin air (PR only has 10K sites using them... ? Please) and somehow believe that we'll take your word for it?

I have news for you, by now, your word around here - means less than Mr. Butlers.

And again - for 15th time - I am not really benefiting from people abusing my services since it's fucking free, I don't place banners or skim traffic on my service - unlike you I might add. It actually comes with sponsored content from sponsors, unlike your service, where people apparently have to use your image hosting service that you then monetize with all sorts of banners.

You are a thief AdultKing, plain and simple. As I said, well played. You almost got away getting people to pay you to take down competition. Almost.

Oh and one last thing, the fact that you use every means you can, to attack anyone that questions you - says a whole lot about you.

And know that the only reason I got involved in this shit-slinging-fight and didn't just suck up the numerous unwarranted attacks you made on my person, was that I realized you only did this because I was a competitor to you.

Anyone that continues to contribute to your campaign by now, needs to have their heads examined.

I've never claimed my company didn't run bbspics.com and if you look carefully, images are approved affiliate content with rotating banner ads promoting affiliates who's approved affiliate content uploaded to the site. That content is then used in posts like this:

Winnie Rider - Device Bondage

8 affiliate approve sponsor images with a referral link back to the site being promoted.



You're not that smart are you. You run a site full of stolent content, thousands of pages of it and you claim I'm a pirate.

My services are targeted to pay site affiliates only - your services allow any pirate to set up shop.

The one posted from March 2014 which is still active was reported to you in June 2014 - it's still up. You complained about wanting a take down notice despite the site linking to full length videos on illegal streaming sites.

It's never your fault is it Markul, it's always somebody else. You need to clean up your blog service, it's riddled with piracy.



Care to prove that ? How is using approved affiliate content and then running ads for that content stealing ? The reason we rotate ads is to give as much exposure to sponsor pay sites as possible.

Both organisations operate at arms length from each other, do you run multiple companies ? Do they do different things ? Does everything you do for one company never conflict with what you do for another ? Grow up. You said yourself you run pay sites - so on one hand you run a piracy infested blog service and on the other you presumably pay content producers for content. Hypocrisy much ?

According to our stats and according to external sources yes, however Plugrush have implemented new code which makes it more difficult to track referees.

See below - these numbers are not pulled out of thin air they are third party verified.

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No, you host piracy related sites out of the goodness of your sweet little heart, come on Markul - you're always complaining about being found hosting piracy sites rather than spending that valuable time removing them. Why should other people have to find them for you ?



Yes I can see all the sponsored content all over the video streaming blogs sites you're hosting with the top adult producers being ripped off left right and centre.

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Where is the sponsored content and ads in the above example Markul ? I am having trouble finding it.

Markul, you're not my company's competition - we're only interested in dealing with adult pay site affiliates - whereas you have a site infested with piracy and refuse to fix it.

You always think this is about you , it's not. It's about the adult content producers you help pirates rip off.

All I read is your regurgitated crap, over and over. You claim I run a service that's overrun by pirates with one hand, yet less than 0,05% of the total sites hosted with us had allegedly pirated content on them.

On the other hand, you state that I have always taken down sites you report to me - you offer to report sites and said that we were "on a regular craw schedule", yet I hear nothing from you until I start speaking out against you when I realize you own a free blog hosting service.

How fucked up is that? Is your regular crawl schedule bi-yearly? Don't you think, that you should have reported the sites to me like you claimed you would - would that not have been a more effective way to spend your donation money - rather than this?

You can attack me all you want, but the facts posted above remain. You are a crook. A crook that dresses up like a night in shining armor pretending to protect this industry, while all you really do is rip off people for your own benefit. Shame on you!

Bla bla bla typical pirate. Wont read a word, but will just respond with this copy+paste sentence instead. Posting things that make perfect sense is just like a typical pirate ;)

PS: That google account you were going to have taken down about a month ago within two days is still active, AK. You have like 20 days before Yonzy is taken offline to hold up on that word. Maybe a bit less. I donno.

BANNING MACHINE ACTIVATED :firehair

lol AK just checked the account. I received thousands after you said I wouldn't. Try again.

Hey AK,

Noticed you changed your sig to remove StopFileLockers. I'm also receiving another Adsense payment. Thought I would stop receiving those in a few days over a month ago? Something to check on. Yonzy closes soon, so something must have went wrong on your end. Maybe a small technicality?

This couldn't have been that my network was legal, was it? Surly Adsense would have removed me if the sites were not legal...It is used on multiple legal sites. So must be legal.

Yonzy closing soon ? Good news. Obviously running a file locker without the payment processing we denied you worked out well :upsidedow

LOL! you mean Payza and Skrill from like 5 months ago? Does any reputable file host run on a payment processor that doesn't allow file hosts and another one that hardly runs file hosts? Especially when you know we use credit processing.

Why remove SFL?

Reputable hosts don't recruit uploaders by paying them to upload copyright content. :2 cents:

eg: Dropbox, Google Drive etc

Now why don't you toddle off back to WJunction and hang out with your pirate mates.

So why couldn't you get my adsense account deleted if I wasn't legit? It has been like two months. You said a couple of days.

PS: Why delete SFL and not update it in months?

So you did NOTHING?

PS Again: Why remove SFL?

Stop File Lockers <-- still there
Copy Control <-- still there
Adult IP <-- still there

What I do with my sig is my business.

When do i expect not to be paid from adsense? Thought I was losing this in a few days over a month ago? Might it be I'm legit? I also have paypal access to pay affiliates on all the sites?

Argue with yourself, I am not playing :2 cents:

hehe you know I'm legit so you just bow into that corner and accept it ;) Without saying it of course. You can't do anything and you accept it.

It's probably become apparent to many by now, but it's probably worth noting now that it's official.

Mega have been exited from Paypal and now have no direct payment processing.

I have been in contact with Paypal asking them to exit the resellers which are mostly all related to Instra Corporation, run as an Australian outfit under different brands and identities which are made to appear different but are all a tangled web connected to the same people.

So are you saying that you made that happen?

No one group or person usually makes anything of the complexity of these issues happen single handedly, if you think that then you're naive. Sometimes we are able to single handedly cause action, as we did with Paypal and Hotfile, because we can build an overwhelming case. However this is the exception rather than the rule.

We were the first group to take action against Mega, having several of their resellers terminated just days after Mega opened their doors.

Pirates beware: Kim Dotcom'&#39;'s Mega isn'&#39;'t the safe haven he says it is | The Verge

Dotcom's Mega: Anti-Piracy Group Moves To Cut Off Site's Finances | TorrentFreak

Mega responded by introducing policies and structuring themselves in such a way that took away the barriers to the use of Paypal as a payment method. Since then we, along with the two major card associations and other IP lobby groups have been working independently to make a case that Mega should not use Paypal.

More recently the Digital Citizens Alliance, with the collaboration of NetNames, released a report which listed Mega as one of the worst offenders in the File Hosting space. Digital Citizens Alliance

While I cannot speak for other organisations, from the perspective of Adult IP our work focussed on three areas, which I am now happy to talk about publicly.

The first was that despite Mega imposing a stringent DMCA policy, there was still a massive amount of infringement on the website.

The second was the issue of encryption and de-duplication. Mega has stated publicly that it de-duplicates files. It is also known to use strong encryption. Our testing showed that if two users uploaded the exact same file and then a DMCA notice was issued on one of them then only that one instance of the file would be removed and the other would remain. Now if Mega was indeed de-duplicating why weren't both infringing files automatically removed ?

The third issue was that of encryption. If it is true that Mega have no way of knowing what resides on their servers then how can they properly assess copyright infringement or other illicit activity ? Without the ability to monitor their own service they have no way of managing the various compliance issues that come in to play.

For quite a while, Paypal as a company which embraces innovation and technology, allowed Paypal to process payments through them. Throughout all this time we, along with other stakeholders in the IP space lobbied Paypal to stop doing that. I know that I had several long meetings with senior executives at Paypal discussing the way forward on the issue of Mega.

I would only be speculating to know exactly what caused Paypal to reverse it's thinking and position on Mega. I think in the end it was probably the card associations that forced Paypal's hand. Paypal for all it's size and influence still need to maintain a positive relationship with Visa and MasterCard.

What escapes most people is that these issues are extremely complex and often they can take many months if not years to work through. There is no silver bullet when dealing with large players in the file locker space as there are numerous competing legal, financial and regulatory issues to grapple with.

That said I received word from Paypal this morning that they have already exited all but one of Mega's resellers and the last one will be actioned today.

That was the longest "No" I have ever read.

Obviously you lack comprehension skills and any ability to understand complex issues. :2 cents:

Which is why some of his relationships and his first iteration of his blog service went down in flames! :1orglaugh

I think I have a problem understanding too. I read from your post that you don't know but assume it's the card association.
What am I missing ? I must be dumb as a door

I think I actually hit the nail (again).

You took credit for other peoples work (again) and tried to talk your way out of it (again).

The AdultKing scam goes on :thumbsup

When Mega launched in January 2013 they did not accept payments directly but used resellers linked to Instra Corporation and I know as fact that we were responsible for convincing Paypal to exit some of those resellers. I think it's already on the public record that we worked closely with the head of Paypal's brand risk management area to shut down many Paypal accounts associated with many file lockers big and small.

Mega changed their structural processes and successfully gained direct processing of payments through Paypal in the months that followed. They managed to convince Paypal that Mega complied with Paypal's policies with regard to file hosting services. In other words they were approved by Paypal as a merchant.

Since that occurred there have obviously been various organisations lobbying Paypal to exit Mega. I know that we unambiguously presented Paypal with our views in several meetings at a high level within Paypal. I also know that other rights holder groups and stakeholders also did the same. So a wide range of groups and organisations were asking Paypal to exit Mega.

So was it our arguments that swayed Paypal ? I don't know that.

Was it the MPAA ? I don't know that.

Was it the RIAA ? I don't know that.

Was it the NetNames report last year ? I don't know that.

Was it the card associations this year ? I don't know that

Could it have been Paypal themselves doing their own risk assessments ? I don't know that.

Did Paypal simply decide processing for Mega was bad for business ? I don't know that.

Or was it the result of a culmination of continued lobbying by stakeholders in the IP space ? I don't know that.

What I do know is that it has been mentioned in the media that the card associations and the US Government were instrumental in the outcome. Is it conjecture or fact ? I don't know. I do know that TorrentFreak are usually very well informed about their stories, however I know many examples where they completely miss the mark.

I am not privy to the internal decision making processes of Paypal. Nor would be any other stakeholders with the exception of the card associations who would probably have more insight than anyone else considering the symbiotic relationship between Visa, MasterCard, the banking system and Paypal.

This is the real world. Nobody hands out a door prize for the winning argument. Nobody is going to ring you up and say congratulations you changed our minds. These things are usually a cumulative, collective, drawn out process in which you either see an outcome you want or you don't.

In this case the outcome we wanted has been achieved, so frankly I don't know and don't care why it happened now and not a year or two years ago. I am simply glad that Paypal finally exited what I consider an illegitimate business running an illegitimate business model that profits from copyright infringement.


Markul, there's going to come a point at which I decide not to let your untrue statements continue any further, when that time comes you will regret picking the fight. My advice to you is to stop before I get to that point. Because you will lose any war that you decide to start with me.

I am not at war with anyone, I have been to war, in real life. It's not pretty. Something tells me you have only waged war from behind a keyboard.

The point is, I didn't start this. You did. I also quite clearly explained what you had to do to work together with me:

1. Shut down your competing service.
2. Apologize in public for your behavior.

My statements are true btw, at least from my perspective. If you feel I violate any rules on GFY I am sure you have and will complain to the administrators of this site.

Don't take this personal, it isn't. It's business. You fucked me and many others over business wise, now you reap what you sow.

maybe time to shut down the locker thing?

you can't provide an adult blog service and also represent a file locker killer service.

You would be your customer's worst enemy.

That's your prerogative, as it is mine to respond in the manner and time of my choosing.

You keep calling me a scammer and casting aspersions on Adult IP & Copy Control. I have worked tirelessly and around the clock for these two organisations for free for almost 18 months and three years respectively. I have not drawn a salary, I have had no personal benefit for the anti-piracy work I do and the running of these organisations. In fact I have contributed cold hard cash of my own to keep the various projects we undertake alive.

You are free to disagree with the tactics I employ and criticise them until you are blue in the face, but cut out the egregious and untrue statements.

just wanted to ask how this thing is going? :) :thumbsup

Sorry for offtopic, but... Robert, please check your spam box. It looks like you didn't receive my email with fixed version of custom WP plugin I made for you.

It could be going a lot better but we're still plugging away.

In recent months Visa & MasterCard seem to have become much more proactive in influencing acquirers to terminate merchants in the sector. Just recently a very problematic site, Datafile, lost payment processing.

If I had to pick the largest hurdle we face it is the sheer amount of data that we have to deal with. We lack human resources to sift through, categorise and process records on sites in our databases. So right now it's a case of selecting specific targets and dealing with those a few at a time, which unfortunately leaves many sites that require mitigation not receiving the attention we'd like to place on them.

Thanks, I did receive it.