Nigel Farage
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Now, if we could just get Sgt. Wuterich to lead a raid against the MPAA and RIAA....
I'm not criminal says Kim Dot Com
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I knew Kim Dotcom [Kim Schmitz, Kimble etc lol] a few years back through racing cars. He is hard to miss due to his shear size. When he says he is not a criminal, he was actually jailed for hacking, so he sould have said that he is no longer a criminal lol. The second gripe with his interview is that afaik, they had an algorithm which, if it found that u were uploading the same file, would only point your link to the same file. So you could have had 1000 links pointing to a warez movie. They take down 999 links, but they do not take down the actual movie itself. Which I could see them having problems with in court.
The other thing people are forgetting is what he is charged with. Racketeering and money laundering. If he laundered money, that has nothing to do with Megaupload itself. And we dont know that. Search for megarally
I agree with everything else though. Compare Megaupload and Yutube. Compare megaupload and rapidshare. The businessmodel itself is not illegal. The practices involved, I cannot say.
Either way, I think the gov. is trying to prove a point. He was flamboyant. He had cool cars with funny license plates. He was a good target.
The other thing people are forgetting is what he is charged with. Racketeering and money laundering. If he laundered money, that has nothing to do with Megaupload itself. And we dont know that. Search for megarally
I agree with everything else though. Compare Megaupload and Yutube. Compare megaupload and rapidshare. The businessmodel itself is not illegal. The practices involved, I cannot say.
Either way, I think the gov. is trying to prove a point. He was flamboyant. He had cool cars with funny license plates. He was a good target.
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Do you think we care ?
Nigel Farage
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Perhaps you've missed the point. I sometimes make the mistake that people on a topic-focused forum are of like mind and equal perceptive ability with regard to the general focus of the forum, and if I've overestimated that level of sophistication, I apologize.
I think it's important for Internet Marketers to understand that prefacing a video clip with a commerical, particularly one that does not have an "opt out", drives a certain number of people away, even to the extent that a site that employs these types of "bait and switch" commercials drives traffic away from the entire site. It's not just the one-time loss of one single view, but the permanent loss of a customer willing to view anything on the domain. No page views, no clicks, no conversions, no money.
In this case, I represent that demographic, and given the responsiveness of software technology, it is just a matter of time before some kind of browser add-on like what I described becomes available and popular, if it does not exist already.
The net effect of this add-on would be to permanently deprive a site that uses this type of advertisement from traffic, and limit the traffic it does get to people not smart enough to employ this "blocking" technology, which should impact conversion rate also.
"bait and switch" videos + inevitable browser-blockers = lower site traffic + lower conversion rate.
The fact that both of these "bait & switch" videos were posted by presumably professional IM'ers is what prompted me to post. Had it been done by a presumably brainless "just anyone" I wouldn't have bothered to post; pearls before swine. But this is "feedback", aka "the voice of the customer"; the type of data that good marketing companies spend a LOT of money in acquiring, so that they can pay close attention to that data and analyze it in order to maximize their effectiveness and ultimately profits. And I'm here, providing this high-quality data (and the analysis) for free.
No need to thank me, nor even to show your appreciation in other ways (such as rep+, or even payment) as I am just a part of the great karmic wheel, and understand that with time, all of my hard work, sacrifice and dedication will be repaid to me, and with interest.
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I knew Kim Dotcom [Kim Schmitz, Kimble etc lol] a few years back through racing cars. He is hard to miss due to his shear size. When he says he is not a criminal, he was actually jailed for hacking, so he sould have said that he is no longer a criminal lol. The second gripe with his interview is that afaik, they had an algorithm which, if it found that u were uploading the same file, would only point your link to the same file. So you could have had 1000 links pointing to a warez movie. They take down 999 links, but they do not take down the actual movie itself. Which I could see them having problems with in court.
The other thing people are forgetting is what he is charged with. Racketeering and money laundering. If he laundered money, that has nothing to do with Megaupload itself. And we dont know that. Search for megarally
I agree with everything else though. Compare Megaupload and Yutube. Compare megaupload and rapidshare. The businessmodel itself is not illegal. The practices involved, I cannot say.
Either way, I think the gov. is trying to prove a point. He was flamboyant. He had cool cars with funny license plates. He was a good target.
you're wrong on the money laundering point. That was to pay their server fees and bandwidth to caparthia and cogent hosting. Why the US authorities can throw this in - because they can and without the money laundering charges they would have no Special Team Six Op on his residency or get him jailed and extradited. Racketeering comes from the "money laundering". Imho, they will drop the racketeering and money laundering charges once it hits US courts and focus on the copyright infringement just to get him to serve more than a day in jail and seize all his assets (their main goal).
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Egypt - they dont extradite even the US citizens who want to leave.
On a more serious note, all this story shows pretty clearly who can give orders to FBI. Money and government is an evil mix.
you're on a fucking marketing forum... You dipshit.
Nigel Farage
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I apologize. I assumed a forum of Internet Marketers might be interested in how their prospective customers might react to their marketing efforts.
lancis
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They always react the same: with %1 - %5 conversion rate.
I never click on commercials as well, even if they are relevant. And I'm sure there are many like you and me. However, if you assume that marketers don't know that you're wrong. I mean, they would be happy to convert us as well, but since they cant why waste the time? The other %5 are more attractive.
