The game of "gotcha to click a hot link" sure aren't over. Bing, Google and the others make money by artificially manipulating Internet traffic. In this case, they pushed me (and thousands of others) to the "Men's Health" dot com. THEY made banner ad money by boasting about how many "hits" their article got. "And we'll write more stupid, fake pieces like this to trick readers!"
"Men's Health" must be desperate for traffic to commission lurid porn stories. "Oh God, they are clamping down on Internet porn? I gotta read this!"
You guessed it. It was a craven spin piece. A fraud. A puff-piece promoting somebody's not-too-competent anti-piracy business.
For a moment, I thought, "Really...a new law, a new technology against piracy? A company with a bold new idea? I gotta read this and see if it'll be used against all movie, TV show and music abuse."
It turned out to be SHIT.
Disappointed in that drivel?
All this "author" did to get his $50 or just a "byline, so one day you'll be paid by some website, but not ours," was to interview a guy who does easy DMCA takedowns. Then spin it like it's Doomsday.
NO, there is no anti-piracy company that can obliterate Internet porn, and this guy isn't even making a dent.
You notice that this company ONLY boasts about taking down YouTube-type sites? Ones that actually are in America or Europe and have DMCA policies?
He also ONLY has the authority to take down porn from companies that hire him. He and the writer here conveniently ignore that fact. The Doomsday header is a come-on. Coming on and in women will be easy to see till the cockroaches and Muslims take over.
This guy is also not going to do a fucking thing if the streaming site is in Croatia, or beaming from some island in the Far East. Every anti-piracy company has the same fucking bots and fingerprinting. That's not the problem. The problem is laws that don't allow for blocking websites or doling out significant jail time or fines, and the "just a venue" defense that thrives thanks to the antiquated "Digital Millenium Act" that Google and eBay and the others make sure will never get a new set of teeth.
Consumers who stream porn (or boxing matches, or anything) know ALL the usual suspects. Even if this company knocks out every "Evil Angel" item, it'll be re-upped an hour later. And, just like those lovely sites that would up a file to six different sharing services, some streaming sites offer a half dozen or more links for the item. If you get "This stream was removed," you're likely to get hot links right below it for six more to try. And one will work.
The article brushes aside the piracy impact of torrent sites and Google-run blogs. This anti-piracy jerk spins: people LOVE to stream, and DON'T like taking a few minutes to wait for a download to finish.
Really? And the writer doesn't question this? I think most people prefer to OWN and not STREAM. Kickass and the rest can finish a download in mere minutes. You OWN the movie, and it's clear, with none of the blur, or breaking up or glitches you get with streaming.
What a laugh. This guy points to iTunes as being successful? Well, duh, yeah, people do buy music, just as most people buy in a store and don't shoplift. But artists are only getting pennies from it. Or from Pandora or Spotty pie. Jeeez.
The article ended with a look at "a new paradigm." It's the old, "give it away but make money off ads and product placement" game. Mr. Myers, the company owner explained.
Oh, right, right, a condom company will sponsor a website that has free downloads and free streaming. Coke would love it if a porn slut washes her mouth out with a bottle of their best. "Hey, those sheets are sopping. Let's go to Wal-Mart and buy some sheets, on sale with the promo-code LEAKY CUNT."
This idea has worked so well, I've never heard of the company, and Myers is probably thisclose to bankruptcy.
There you have it. Spin doctoring, a "news" article that's just promotion for a half-competent service, and a scare headline that basically says: "We asked a question and wimped out an answer that is, in essence, no, you'll always get Internet porn." Even streaming Internet porn. This company is like the rest of 'em, from Grayzone to Web Sheriff and back. They brag that they can find illegal links. They'll take big fees from the richest companies and artists that can afford it, and then they'll shrug about all the well known sites that ignore DMCA's or re-up over and over. Ha ha, Pirate Bay, ho ho Zinfuck, hee hee, Demonoid.
Parasites, dung beetles and maggots all working together: the NY Post rubs Men's Health's back, and they'll put in hot links to Post articles. Google and Bing lead you to the "Top Stories" and everybody's playing tiddlywinks for pennies. Only real journalism is not being served, and more and more magazines and newspapers are going under. And, ha ha, magazines that offer PDF "subscriptions" are finding that, like songs on iTunes, one might be sold for every 20 stole'd.
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