Last year a group of Russian pirate webmasters posted a whole heap of stuff accusing my companies of running illegal sites and I posted about that in this thread.
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Originally Posted by AdultKing
Seems people are digging up old posts from GFY about teen paysites I used to run and calling them underage. Idiots. Considering many of those sites used Paul Markham content (yes I know) nobody could even accuse him of selling underage porn.
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Now Payserve sites are being labeled as operators of CP sites by several people, which clearly they are not. One person even claimed I owned Club Seventeen.
Back in the cowboy, wild west days of this industry many of us did things we are not proud of today, using dodgy domains to lure people to over 18 teen sites was one often used, so was the use of keywords we'd never use today.
Even as recently as a few years ago I canned some domains, registered by a freelance SEO guy in our name for SEO purposes, that ran YouTube scraper sites that were highly inappropriate. As a result we dropped these domains and I sacked the freelancer.
The difference here is my companies and myself have never been associated with hosting illegal content, nor pirated content. Have we made mistakes? Sure we have, but we learned from them and cleaned up.
On the other hand the pirates haven't learned anything, on sites like LumFile, which was banned from WJunction for really hosting CP, the amount of real illegal material is astonishing.
Even on UltraMegaBit there is plenty of illegal and copyright infringing content and this had been admitted to by Rudy Corella.
Personally I don't care if people claim I am Jack the Ripper, this project will not be stopped under any circumstances. The project's aims were to clean out the infringing and illegal file locker industry and that's what we are going to do.
If I have made errors of judgement about Verotel affiliate banner ads or inappropriate domains, fine I'll wear that, but we have never hosted illegal content ever.
I am near the end of the process of entirely pulling out of adult and many other areas of business as Copyright and IP Enforcement is all I want to do. So if I own or host some legal tubes, or if I have owned inappropriate domain names, or if I've made any other errors of judgement I'll just have to wear that.
At the end of the day, the pirate community who have massive amounts of money to lose will throw as much mud as they can make stick. This is self serving, the only reason so much effort is being placed by these people is that we are being effective, devastatingly effective.
The file locker industry looks nothing like it did a year ago, in another year it will look nothing like it does now. We are bringing an end to the infringement and illegal content hosted by these sites and we are killing the business model of incentivised file sharing.
I remain committed as ever to kill of illegal file lockers, people may make their own minds up about whether to support that or not. Our goal is clear, well defined and we won't back down until the job is done.