As far as I knew you were in Norway, perhaps you sleep until 3pm ?

We have sent emails to [email protected], there is one of them posted above in this thread. You have not responded to any of them.

Our emails are hosted by Google Apps which we find quite reliable when it comes to delivery, so I guess it must be something on your end.

I am not posting my direct email address in this thread, if you fill out the contact form here https://copycontrol.org/contact-us then I will respond and we can set up a meeting.

It should be noted that in past threads on this issue you have promised to resolve the piracy issues and have failed to do so.

This is your chance to make things right.

I am not in Norway. Our main office is in Norway yes. I used the contact form, look forward to talking to you.

I talk to Russell at Plugrush all of the time on Skype and he always helps me with sites that have malware, removing them and stopping them

Replied. Thank you.

Plugrush are in discussions with us, however they have told us that even if they terminate accounts they want to keep the ads being displayed.

To us this is unacceptable and we have conveyed this to them.

The point of terminating a publisher account is to stop anyone from benefiting from piracy, to continue to display ads means that Plugrush benefits from Piracy. This will not stand.

this is not fucking twitter

Hi AdultKing. Thx for again trying to make us out to be the bad guy and starting shit in public and accusing us of all kinds of unwarranted bullshit. You do love to create drama whenever you can.

A couple of things..

I have absolutely zero interest or need to explain our business to some random person who is not a client of ours as either a publisher or an advertiser. Once we have business to do together, I can spend more of my energy on your noise. However, I will respond here since there are other people reading it as well.

A couple of things..

First of all, PlugRush does not support piracy, and we will always assist anyone who finds something to report, and we will close down the accounts of people who clearly has a sole purpose of spreading piracy or malware. Our email is unfortunately a bit flooded these days, so the one email you sent back in may, has slipped through the cracks. The best way to get a response, or really the only way you can get a guaranteed response, is by having an account at plugrush.com and creating a support ticket. Please from now on, do that. You do not have to post them here in this thread, I will not go through them here. This is not a public plugrush support board. We have ways of doing support that works a lot better, that all others seems to be able to use.

Secondly, Plugrush now has 68040 registered domains. We do not manually approve new sites, because there really is no point. Even if we approve each site individually, we can't know from what page on each domain they are sending traffic. There is absolutely no possible way for us to pre-approve each source of traffic. Even if we do approve their homepage, and it seems clean, we can not know if that will change or if they create subpages with pirated content. And even if content seem like pirated content, it may very well be licensed.
I'm sure there are legit companies that tried to spread their content on file lockers as a marketing strategy.
You release some content on pirate sites to get people to see it and want more, then get free traffic to your main site. I'm sure that can work, and that people are doing it.
How are we suppose to know these things, what is licensed and what is not?
There are of course clear cases where there is no doubt, and I assume there are a lot of sites like that in our system. The only thing we can do is act when we get reports about it.

But to be honest, it's not really a priority for us to actively go through our 68k sites and look for things like this. That is not our job, and would only be a huge cost for us, which in return would make us less competitive as a network, because of the extra costs involved. We prefer to focus on getting people to pay for porn, and not spend our time on something that will accomplish exactly nothing, and will cost a ton of money, and also will not do anything towards getting people to stop pirating content.

It is apparently your job to do so, and you get paid to do it, and even though all the sites you find have close to no traffic at all, we are willing to spend our time going through your reports and deactivating sites that are clearly just made to promote pirated content. But, we need you to create support tickets about it, and I will see to it that it gets followed up.

We will not disable the adzones, and make them not display ads, but we will disable the publisher account so they stop making money. That is what your objective is, and it's a win win win for all of us. It's important that we do filter the traffic away from piracy sites, and towards our advertisers pages where they can pay for legit content.

PlugRush is a network that is actually a part of making this industry grow and generate revenue. We are a big contributor to people pulling up their credit cards, and actually spend money on porn. How I see it, it would be a good thing if all sites with piracy on them had ads for products that people can actually pay for, because it's important to lead people away from the free stuff, and towards what you have to pay for. And that is the whole concept of what we as an ad network are doing. We get people to pay for things. None of our advertisers would want to buy traffic from us if it weren't generating any revenue. So wherever our ads are shown, they are contributing to people pulling up their credit card, rather than downloading the content for free.

Anyone who is saying this business is declining is fooling themselves, and are probably spending their time and energy on wrong things, like suing pirates, or going after micro spam blogs using filelockers to spread vids to nerds for free, instead of going after the tubesites that probably has 90% of the adult traffic on the entire internet.
There is a ton of revenue to be collected in this business, and people are spending more money online then they have ever done in the history of the world.

Whatever it is your trying to accomplish, I have my doubts about it having any results at all. It's about as effective as trying to sue people for downloading content. It's not gonna do a god damn thing towards changing people attitued towards pirated porn. And you have this idea that going after filelockers is somehow gonna help, when it is the tubes that are really getting all the traffic.
Trying to fix a problem like piracy is not going to be solved by going after those spreading piracy. Other industries has shown that the only thing that will work, is making better products, evolving, keeping up with technology, and being innovative.

The music and movie/tv industry are starting to figure it out, with services like spotify, netflix, hulu, etc. Services that actually are getting people to stop pirating music and movies. 10 years ago everyone I knew downloaded pirated music. Record companies tried to stop it by closing down napster and making it harder to find online, suing users, making fake torrent, but it didn't help at all. What helped and resulted in me now not knowing anyone who really pirates music, is technology, innovation and brilliant people creating new things that people are willing to pay for. Like spotify, wimp, pandora and tons of other music services.

The adult industry could learn a couple of things from that.

So what you're saying is "We'll terminate the publisher, not pay them, but continue to make money from the ad clicks"

Ad zones need to be disabled. There's no way around that. You need to send a message, as a deterrent to others, the only way to do that is draw a line in the sand and disable the ads.

I know you have 35 million reasons to keep your business growing, however our constituency, our represented rights holders, will not stand by and watch Plugrush monetize the piracy of their content.

It's up to you what you want to do. We have replied to Russell saying the same thing.

Well said :thumbsup

I see that AK's work has derailed into attacking advertisement companies instead of spending time on the actual file lockers as was "agreed" with his campaign.

That's not something I want to support anymore and have now terminated my measly Paypal subscription. I strongly advise everyone else to do the same thing right away.

Ignorant as I am, I thought he was doing something good - then I come and see this shit :mad:

Killing off file lockers involves removing all forms of monetization from the eco-system.

What's the point in taking payment processing away if advertising revenue remains ?

That is right. We will disable the account, so there is no incentive for the publisher to have our adzones on our their site. If they are up to date, and pays attention, they will remove our adzones. But often it takes some time.
However, we do not benefit from it. After we disable the account, the ads keep showing, but we stop charging for the clicks, and we stop tracking it. We pass the traffic through without charging the advertiser for it, and without getting paid for it. The only part benefiting from it is the advertiser with a product to sell which will get free traffic, and this industry as a whole, because we are leading people away from piracy sites, and towards things that cost money. Thereby contributing to the adult industry generating more revenue, which come to think of it is as far as I know your objective too? Are we not on the same page and have the same goal here? Get people to pay for porn?

Enough with your demands and bullshit reasons for going after us. We're not hurting the industry, we are doing it a service. You're hurting it by getting tons of business people who could spend their time doing something productive to get the indutry to to grow, but must rather deal with your insignificant whichhunt and pointless crusade with a tactic that will never ever work..

Please, enough now...

Does anyone agree with me? Or is AdultKing doing us all a favor here?

Im with you 100%

It does not remain. You report it to the advertisement company and trust that they disable the account as they have said they will. You don't then go to war with the advertisement company and try go get their merchant accounts blocked - just because they don't do it exactly like you want them to. Don't you think the pirates would take down the ad-zones when they see no money are being generated?

Not that I think you would succeed, but taking down guys like PR and exo, would cost my company a lot of money on a yearly basis. I cannot be the only one this would impact. There is no way you will see me support - or even sit by idly - if you choose to go this route.

Oh I agree with you 100% on this, he is not doing anyone any favors by this new path in the crusade.

Thomas, Jørgen, Russel & Plugrush:

It is very simple. You are either part of the problem or you are part of the solution, the choice really is up to you.

I don't think we're asking too much when we are doing the hard work for your in finding the piracy and pointing it out to you as agreed per email and in return ask for a timely manner to kill the accounts and of course stop displaying the ads. This does two things: It shows us that the account has indeed been terminated and it shows that you have zero interest to support piracy by monetizing it and making a profit from it.

Any other way only suggests that you seem to enjoy to profit from piracy, there is simply no way around it.

Think about it a little more and you'll agree with me, because you're smart and we're right.

To anyone that disagrees that profiting from piracy is wrong and a problem - we're sorry that you feel that way but are glad that you're showing your true colors.

:2 cents: :2 cents: :thumbsup :thumbsup

Why disable the adzones? The ads dont lead to pirated websites do they?

The better question is why not disable the adzones? :2 cents:

Disabling it shows a clear message to users and webmasters: We do not deal in or support piracy.

Leaving them enabled also shows a clear message to users and webmasters: You deal in piracy traffic = we like you, we support piracy!

What really is there to gain? Do you really want your good traffic diluted with piracy traffic?

Here's why.

If ad zones remain active:

1. We have no way of knowing who is active and who isn't active if ads are being displayed.
2. There are advertisers (such as your pills advertisers) who benefit from the ads on pirate website therefore indirectly benefiting from piracy.
3. There should be clear demarkation between Plugrush as a responsible ad network and pirate sites as infringers against intellectual property.

When Google kill publishers of piracy sites the adzones default to community service ads within 24 hours. Then stop displaying ads altogether soon after.

A responsible ad network doesn't want to be associated with piracy. I don't understand why Plugrush would want their name, their reputation associated with piracy sites.

There are examples we have posted where the Plugrush logo is clearly displayed on the site. Why would a responsible ad network want this ?

How exactly are we benefiting from piracy when we do not charge for the traffic after banning the account? I've said multiple times that I am against profiting from piracy. What is exactly our true colors? We disagree on how to best deal with it, that's ok. but saying we are some how part of the problem is completely bullshit, and you know it. We both want the same things, and we are willing to work with you. Please do it through or ticket system though, because we can the assign the task to the correct people in our company.
Your argument for why you want the adzones disabled though, is not good enough. Please explain why what we're doing is wrong? Should we encourage people to stay at sites with pirated content? Or help them get the hell out of there as soon as possible and towards content that costs?

Pirates often copy what other pirates do.

If one pirate sees Plugrush being used on a piracy site then others will follow.

The more piracy sites you disable the less piracy sites you will attract.

You've already admitted you don't know how much piracy there is on your network, so in that case wouldn't it be prudent to send a clear message to the pirates that they are not welcome ?

As far as ticket systems go, we will email abuse@ or you can nominate another special email address for our reports. We do not have the manpower to manually fill out forms. All of our abuse reports are generated from the system which receives DMCA notices from rights holders.

We will more than happily ban the domains, but we will keep the adzones up. Maybe you didn't read Thomas' reply about advertisers not being charged?

To me, the thing is this, you guys just want to be able to say "We got this site shut-down, see their plugrush adzones got removed, we are successful" instead of believing us that the website was banned. Bottom line is that we will not remove the ad-zone just so you can "believe" us. We are an EXTREMELY legitimate company and have been for MANY years, if our word isn't good enough then maybe we can't do business together.

Simple then: Show the users a loud and CLEAR message in the adzone, for example:

By using this site you support piracy, click here to support the good guys!

Or something along those lines.

You would still link to your publisher but you take a stand and show people that piracy is not ok.

That's a compromise we could accept.

It's simple really, you do know about "Trust, but verify" yes?

And believe me it's not about us being able to boast about success, it's about if piracy is being fought or being supported, we're really simple-minded in that regard, I guess you could call us hardliners if you wanted to?

I really don't care what one pirate sees and another one don't. If they all start using our system, and you and others are good at reporting all domains with piracy, then I think the pirates will quickly find out that plugrush is a place where your account gets frozen if you promote piracy. They will even eventually figure out that we might close their revenue source without telling them, so they might end up buying traffic and sending it to their site, without getting any return on investment. That is a win win for the industry, the advertisers with content, for us, for you, and for the end user.

We are basically taking money from the pirates, and giving it for free to the advertisers. Tell me again how that is the wrong approach.


If this is so important to you, perhaps you should get enough manpower to do what is needed in order to accomplish what you are trying to do?

I can send you a list of all the domain in our system so you can go through them if you want..

We do not have enough manpower to read all our email, so if you want to get things done, use our ticket system. If that's not good enough for you, please continue to email our flooded inbox, but we do not have resources to follow up on everything in our mailbox.

Nextri, if you send us a list of all your domains, we'll go through them and tell you which are being used in association with piracy sites.

I was going to order a crawl to locate them all anyway, but you'd certainly make the job a lot easier and cheaper if you provided us with a list.

Perhaps if we determine there is a significant issue then we might be able to work out some common ground.

I have one question...

So far every ticket system worth it's salt that I've used can monitor an inbox, be it pop3 or other.

How about you set up a special email that creates a ticket in your system and this problem is instantly solved. Then you get it your way and we also get it our way, it's a win-win!

Just an idea :2 cents:

How about instead of emailing us, you just create a ticket, you are extremely hard to work with so far, it's not that hard to just sign into plugrush and create a support ticket man...Geeze c'mon, we are trying to work with you guys, but you keep coming up with ridiculous ideas.

I think if we had a single list to go through, we could then reply back to you with one support ticket containing all of the sites with issues. Russell has my direct email address and the list can be forwarded there.

How is the idea ridiculous? It literally takes not more than 5 maximum 10 minutes if you drink a coffee doing it, to create an email-address / inbox and enable in it the options of your ticket system...

Just trying to make it easy for you.

We can do ticket for just one single report. If Nextri provides us a list of domains, we can check them all and submit a ticket with those with problems.

That makes it easy for everyone.

Yeah! That's a great way to build a trusted relationship with your costumers!

I think AdultKing is really starting a fight with the wrong people.

This is a sad day in the whole "Stop Filelockers" campaign.

i dont want my sites on a shared list :disgust

This! :2 cents::2 cents: :thumbsup

What you are missing is that the blogs linking to lockers generate MOST (99%) of their revenue by selling memberships on the filelockes by linking to the FULL RIPPED HQ VIDEOS or even full site rips.Id go ahead and say most pirates use adblock anyway.

Whoa
 

[this thread pushed me to start my 1st post]

I must admit, after reading this thread and all of the drama and dissing, that your response was quite impressive. I'm back from a 4-year long illness and noticed that the industry had changed quite a lot in the last few years I've been gone, but your post was a real touche` moment and very well written and very true above all. In fact, I *had* to post this comment because of your reply. I was raised in the TV & music industry, and your facts & comparison(s) are right on as well.

Great response & a great comeback - my view of PR is changed :thumbsup

These threads are great, AK. Keep it up!!!

The guys at PR are good peeps :2 cents::thumbsup

We don't need the list, we can just crawl ourselves as we have already got extensive crawling capability.

The only advantage to Nextri providing a list is that we can singularly check each site then report back to him which ones a problematic in one report rather than weeks of sending him small batches of sites which will only add to his workload and ours.

If a website has Plugrush on it and is live then we can find it.