It’s because they are making money from scared producers. It’s really simple and a brilliant business idea.
You have a situation that is UNSTOPPABLE. It’s called piracy. Anyone with half a brain will realise this will never, ever stop. Logistically and legally you cannot stop it. This has been proven by the RIAA and MPAA in America who have A LOT more money that the porn industry to try and stop piracy. They have failed, massively.
You also have a lot of VERY PISSED OFF producers who think they are losing out on sales because of piracy. They think that everyone that downloads a torrent of their stuff was a potential customer. This is wrong, but let’s not go there for now.
So, you have people pissed off their stuff is being nicked. And you know you will never stop this stuff being nicked. So, you set up a business where you charge these pissed off and desperate people 500 bucks a month to google search some torrents sites and prepare a DCMA notice for the pissed of producers. You tell them the stolen content they were pissed off about has been taken off 5 sites.
The producers feel better because 2% of places you could find their stolen content no longer host the content. (Of course, the sites are still up and still showing OTHER people’s content, but who cares about that, right?
Genius.
It appears Remove your Content makes around 500 bucks a month from these people, every month, for doing a couple of hours of work (it really is very very simple to use a search engine to find torrents. Then you look on Usenet, add in some private forums you have lied your way into, job done). And the best bit? You can still find the producers’ content all over the web.
It’s the best business model I have heard of.
Producers are not stopping lost sales, they are just making RYC richer.
Producers – just pay me 500 bucks a month to do some positive marketing efforts. Actually make a difference and DO SOMETHING instead of moaning on forums and paying money to businesses that actually provide you a measurable service.
If anyone reading this pays RYC or similar please can you explain how you measure the success of your investment with them?
by Eric Green
24 Mar 2010 at 23:59
Yawn…. Go see what an attorney charges for the same service. We provide a service to producers and if you had half a brain, you’d realize that and stop wasting time hating on us.
by admin
25 Mar 2010 at 00:39
Hi Eric
Saw you get all aggressive on GFY last night about this time.
There is no need to be quite so rude. I have an opinion about piracy that differs from yours. That’s cool, no need to be start insulting me because of that.
Thanks for reading though!
by Eric Green
25 Mar 2010 at 00:00
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=Lolly+Badcock+torrent&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=93b235602f246a77
by admin
25 Mar 2010 at 00:37
a) Amazing! There are torrents of Lolly content!
b) I don’t care as I don’t think that a torrent = a lost sale. I don’t believe people into torrenting are ever likely to pay 30 bucks to join a site
c) Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate your input.
by Eric Green
25 Mar 2010 at 05:16
Yes.. we are aggressive.. you bet. Also… someone talks out their ass about something they know absolutely nothing about, I have every right to respond accordingly. This right here is defamation:
“Remove your content makes 500 bucks a month from these people, every month, for doing a couple of hours of work.” You are making false statements about our organization. How about I say adultmarketing.co.uk plegarizes? See.. not too cool is it. However, you haters keep on hating and we’ll keep fighting the good fight.
by admin
25 Mar 2010 at 09:36
Eric, OK, I will amend the post so it says “It appears as though Remove your content makes 500 bucks a month from these people, every month, for doing a couple of hours of work.”
Funny thing is, Eric, I can google a porn star and the word torrent and send a company a DMCA notice. I can even find them on usenet. I can find out IRC channels. I can find private forums. It’s not hard, is it? You just need to know where to look. So I can show why it LOOKS like that is all you do. Whereas you will never be able to find a single sentence on this blog anywhere else because I don’t plagerise.
But really, I would drop the aggressive act when posting on adult blogs and forums.
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by admin
28 May 2010 at 16:48
You are very astute, Hung. This blog is bloody great. And of course, were you not a spam bot, I would be happy for you to pay me to write for you. But you’re a spam bot, so, I guess this isn’t gonna work out. Thanks though. Love you. xxx
by Mr Fluffy
12 Aug 2010 at 19:31
Apparently Eric Green is now involved with “The Copyright Defense Agency”. Sounds like the same company and same methods, just by a different name. I wonder why?
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/08/53-gay-porn-pirates-now-facing-p2p-lawsuits.ars
by admin
12 Aug 2010 at 19:36
It’s the same trick Davenport Lyons pulled in the UK. Fucking shady. I’d be embarrassed if I had to blackmail people over gay porn in order to pay my bills.
Thanks for the link Mr Fluffy.
by isis
11 Oct 2010 at 20:03
Looks like the scam artists is feeling threatened: http://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=990606
by isis
12 Oct 2010 at 19:42
And you’re wrong about the $500 per month. He gets $2000 per month from Hustler alone.
by admin
12 Oct 2010 at 19:59
He is a funny little chap. Talking about shotguns and killing people. Awfully professional.
And that is an astonishing amount of cash to get out of any company for googling torrents and sending out an email. Good for Eric. He has worked out a totally brilliant way to play on the fear of people that think that a torrent = a lost sale. He has to do next to nothing, he has to show no results, he admits on gfy that he offers no ROI, and yet people are falling over themselves to give him cash.
Fucking genius.
And hustler have lost the plot anyway, playing the blackmailing IP addresses game.
I can see redneck jerricurled mulleted shit guitarists doing it, but I would have thought Mr Klein would have more sense and class.
Still, easy new revenue stream.
“We are making less in revenue, let’s try blackmail”
Genius.
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by BallstotheWalls
22 Feb 2014 at 18:37
You are hating on the fact that Eric makes $x from big porn companies? Why, because you didn’t think of doing this yourselves? Come on. You claim his business model is genius… and it is. You claim it is so easy to do… then why don’t YOU do it and make some of that easy money for yourself??? Because maybe it is not as easy as it looks.
by damian
23 Feb 2014 at 10:03
No, I’m not hating on him for making money from adult companies. I am pointing out that the money spent on his services is wasted, as it is like fighting the war on drugs. If the MPAA and RIAA with all their resources have made no impact at all on piracy, why do people think giving a content removal company a fews hundred a month will do anything?
I am pointing out that the money wasted there would be better spent doing UI improvements and MVT to improve your conversions.
And I am highlighting that using some software to find links and then getting some more software to auto send a DMCA isn’t really hard.
Thanks for the anonymous comment though, tough guy!