Let's sue Zango, I'll give $1000
 

Ok these guys deserve to go down.

I don't want to organise it, because I live so far away and I have no experience with suing folk (hey, I'm not american! :) )

But if we have enough people contribute, and some leadership then surely we have the power here to take those scamsters.

Anyone with me? :)

Global Class Action

good idea man!

Any decent lawyer who understands and specializes in class action lawsuits would not have a big issue taking it on if they felt it was winnable or that Zango will quickly settle. They just typically want around 40 to 60% of everything.

fuck they do???

I'd sue for the PRINCIPLE and....besides, these types of cases are usually taken on contingency basis. Let the lawyers get the huge chunk of change, I just want a precedent set that normal contract principles prevent these types of installs from being "voluntary".

I'd rather sue rapidshare and the lot.

fuck zango

Some fools using RS were trying to pimp my network, I turned the tables on them. Let's just say everytime they play the files I get traffic :1orglaugh :thumbsup

I agree but what about going after them all? Have lawyers on retainer for things that could harm the industry.

got zango ?

that's not good to zango.. i guess!

after today's FTC ruling i'd say anything is possible

You just need to piss off the right people like I posted in another thread. Norm Zadeh for example, who got a settlement from AdultCheck. Show him URLs where AFF is paying them while they use his content.. or see if Zango is popping up over his sites.

serious business

that's almost exactly where zango will get nailed - they are using other's content with concent - 2257 violation

bump....

hmmmm thats an idea...maybe zango will one day dissapear

True :mad: there are even some services who pay people to upload porn on their free file hosting network, so guys like Squishypimp who want to earn 5$ start uploading all the paysite content they can get their hands on to make 15$. That is what damages conversion ratios these days :warning

zango? why not sue the companies that use zango to take your joins away from you, their very own affiliates without compensation. zango is one company of hundreds doing the same thing. thinking you can change the world by attacking any one of them is both foolish and naive.

If you get a ruling against one then it makes it harder for others to emulate.

I don't think you understand how zango works, they don't run any sites, so there is no way they can get nailed for 2257 violation. All they do is pop a popup when certain event happens. In most cases the event is when someone goes to certain site, popup gets popped. They could just as easily pop a popup when you open winamp to play an mp3, or when you watch a video clip with media player or even each time you start ms word.

the things they are doing that cause people to lose money is legal. being upset and not liking it does not change that fact.

.... i wasn't thinking... trying to rally a bunch of 1/2 retarded, hugely independent, idiot pornographers together to fight a $500,000 - $1,000,000 legal fight with zango to vent frustration, makes perfect sense and is totally logical.

;)

Well, actually whether it's legal is very debatable, interfering with people's business is not legal.

Most likely it wouldn't require that sort of money because class action lawyers take on this sort of stuff for large percentage of the settlement. It's not beyond this board to actually achieve things when enough people care about it. If enough people do is at the moment a moot point.

i dont think that the legality of anything they are doing is debatable. its a matter of public record. there are laws, there is case law, there is precedence, there have been government investigations, there has been lawsuits, there have been rulings, judgements and settlements.

They have been under significant government scrutiny and have the best legal representation in the country. First you have to spend ... how much? Probably 10-20K just to have attorneys assess the situation fully and give you an opinion on it. Then what? who is going to pay to fight assuming everyone can get on board with a weak case against them? Acacia got right in everyones face and claimed to own the rights to video/audio on the web and were suing people.. yet people did jack shit except for 11 companies and the few that sent cash. Some here know for sure, but i would venture to guess that the legal bill is probably over 1.5 mil by now. If people counldn't get on board to face an obvious, direct threat, then they definately won't get on board to face a threat where no one can know for sure if it affects them at all.

the previous cases are from the perspective of the hapless users who have been tricked into installing Zango or their previous incarnations. This is a different gripe.

Uh people know for sure Zango affects them, do you even know how it works?

zango is untouchable

What makes you say so?

the latest FTC regulation, their clients list, their capital + their ability to further raise when needed. Mainstream industry pretty much autoregulated their aff. programs and prohibits the use of it for sales/leads generation after they gave up on rest means of fighting it.

their capital is exactly what makes them a target and the FTC settlement only relates to deceptive installation practices.

valid point. I would be more optimistic if I had seen certain big aff.programs step against it, in the contrary though...

There several things that haven't been posted about zango the similar systems even after all these drama threads. For example:

Assuming you have aff.program A taking over #1 bid for their keywords to protect their business. This translates that just a % of the popups will be for this advertiser. Any advertiser can jump and take over 2nd, 3rd etc position with a starting min bid of 1.5cents. Right now I can go and bid on AFF/cams.com/sexsearch.com etc keywords and popup my own ads. So bottom line, do they actually protect their keywords? No, they just hijack sales from their affiliates.

You just described several of the most high traffic surfer forums. RS is killing adult webmasters' income. In addition to the weekly or more frequent network password postings. :(

yeah, i know how it works.... and i have a zango account. you have yet to clarify which US law is being broken or what your specific grievance is that you feel is defensible in court.

Pleasurepays is right. When FTC goes after you they examine many things and believe me they know zango/180s better than anyone of us. The company that has historykill was hammered by FTC no that long time ago. If you see the report that followed their case it was unbeliable,they had incredible details and pointed out all type of misleading actions that were taking place. For example misleading banners. Do I need to remind you how adult dating sites work these days? With deceiving fake geoads that show ppl that dont exist in those areas and charging surfers money to provide their contact. Enough said..

Guys, the end is near. McDonalds is hiring.

I'm not a lawyer, that would be their job. It is clear they're stealing.

The FTC were most likely investigating a specific complaint from the installed users point of view. I very much doubt they considered the webmaster point of view at all. Zango surely won't have provided them with any information they didnt' have to.

ok... back to the beginning... how are they stealing? you are the one saying there is a case to be made, so .... ? how are they stealing?

i know how zango works. how is zango stealing?

I buy advertising -> people click advertising -> people land on my site -> Zango popup obscures my site.

again... what law is being broken? you don't own or control the surfers computer. the surfer does. what law is being broken?

i could use that same logic to argue that power outages and crappy hardware, frozen computers and any number of things affect a surfers ability to reach my site. why sue zango? sue god.

uh those don't even compare. For one Zango's popups are wilful interference. Like I said I'm not a lawyer, but if this was happening 'in the real world' there's no doubt it would be illegal.

You're obviously a Zango fan, I'm glad to know you're happy to indulge in unethical promotional methods.

"Mid-last year, a US federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, ordered Gator to temporarily stop displaying pop-up advertising over Web publishers' pages without their permission on the grounds that the ads violated their copyrights and stole revenue from ad sales."

Here's a link to the Gator case http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement...2130156,00.htm

GET THOSE FUCKERS :mad:!!

guba guba guba

dude? are you serious? i was trying to ask a simple question... all you had to do was answer it. you are the one saying "lets sue them" i was only asking you "for what exactly" to which you had no reply. your parting remarks are not "your obviously a zango fan.." --.... well, i like to think i am a fan of logic.

the link you provided offers a clear reason and possible grounds for a lawsuit. thats all i was asking about.

since you care... please know that i could care less if zango exists or doesn't. i dont use them, i just wanted to see it and know what it is... particularly since i drive by their office everyday. i dont worry about others, i adapt. i am not going to waste my time trying to change the world when my time can be better invested in adapting my business to current realities, matter what they are. i am not a crusader. i do what i do for me, for my wife and for our family. thats all.

How narrow-minded and short-sighted...

i can either devote my time to worrying about the near infinite number of things that i can't change, that affect me directly or indirectly.. or i can effectively worry about myself, make changes in a heartbeat and keep on moving.

the world needs crusaders. i'm just not going to be one of them.

I've talked about lawsuits against adware companies with Kellie and Ben Edelman several times before. Because most adware programs, and that includes zango, do NOT overwrite cookies themselves, it's not a winnable lawsuit for affiliates.

The ones who could sue adware companies, and SHOULD, are affiliate programs/sponsors for adware that display ads over their own sites and totally cover them. ALL these cases have been won or settled before and can/will be won again.

There are way too many ways that affiliates get cheated by adware and those who use these programs to steal. As Ben explained to me, it would be extremely difficult and confusing to try to document every occurrence for every sponsor, WHO popped the ad and stole the sale, explain every technical detail in court of each popup, how it happens, how it works, etc., and trying to put a money value to the amount lost, especially when the adware program itself does nothing wrong in this sense.

Let sponsors sue adware companies, they would win. We, affiliates, probably wouldn't and we'd spend a fortune trying.

CLASS ACTION LAWSUITS FOR AFFILIATES...

I sent Ben the links to the zango threads last month. Ben, Kellie and lawyers consulted on behalf of affiliates (mainstream AND porn) have said that it would be much easier and a more "winnable" case if affiliates sued SPONSORS for breach of contract. All TOS say that if a surfer comes from YOUR link, the commission is payable to YOU. With adware, this part of the affiliate agreement is broken. There has been plenty of proof posted in this forum alone about several sponsors who KNOW about it and are not doing anything to stop it. That's a direct breach of contract, doesn't get any clearer than that.

Sue ONE sponsor as a class action suit and win and see how many sponsors will drop their adware advertising after that.

You have to hurt ONE sponsor where it hurts most to get the ball rolling.

Missie

exactly. people are pissed at zango... but in all the recent BS, its the sponsor that is stealing. that is an easier case to make than the idea of trying to go after zango for what is probably going to be a fairly convoluted claim, insanely expensive to argue and its going to center on issues which have already been under intense legal scrutiny anyway.

FREE LEGENDARY LARS!! He was forced to steal. He should be suing Zango. Maybe he needs a "Help Lars Do The Right Thing" fund?

They do own a site, zango.com
You think they have permission for all those flash videos and games on there?

I doubt it :winkwink: