An attorney's opinion on Lightspeed's claim

Last week we already talked about Lightspeed's fishing expedition. Yesterday, the Fight Copyright Trolls site published an article about how Lightspeed's claim is vulnerable to motions to dismiss:

The claim brought under 18 USC 1030 is a farce. Any first year attorney can run a truck through the hole in their pleading.

Breasts lead to arrest of Anonymous hacker

According to CNET, police allege that an Anonymous hacker posted a picture of his presumed girlfriend's breasts as a taunt to US authorities. The picture allegedly contained GPS information that led the FBI to her. The photograph of the breasts linked authorities to Ochoa -- because, taken with an iPhone, it contained GPS information.

- Exif Reader: Read the EXIF meta-data stored in your images.
- Exif Cleaner: Remove the EXIF meta-date from your images before you post them online.

One last big score for Lightspeed?

Steve Lightspeed used to be one of the big dogs in affiliate marketing. Somewhere along the line LightSpeedCash gave up on creating great content and updating their sites. The prince became an old dinosaur. And the dinosaur is looking for easy cash. He's obviously had to stop quasi blackmailing IP addresses of people alleged to be downloading his content, so now he's taking the copyright-troll route to riches. In what can only be described as a fishing expedition, Lightspeed is going after the names of 6500 internet users that supposedly shared their passwords with others. In 2000, password sharing may have been a problem for membership based sites. In 2012, password trading can easily be detected and automatically be blocked. If Lightspeed prefers to let password traders run wild so he can sue them, we must assume that Lightspeed no longer cares about it sites, but has gone in full time Troll mode.

One Year Later: Azoogle Still Owes People Money

It looks like Epic (Azoogle) is still having major cash flow problems. From what I can tell, they are paying some of their affiliates (but with a huge delay). But this seems to be limited to those that still send them traffic. Affiliates that have stopped sending them traffic have not been getting the money they are owed. So if you are still owed money and you don't want to risk wasting your quality traffic, you might want to consider sending them some cheap feeder traffic instead.

ICM Registry applies for 3 more adult tlds

ICM registry, the company behind the failed dotxxx top level domain, has applied for 3 more adult tlds: dotsex, dotporn and dotadult. Four months after its first tld went live, ICM Registry is struggling to stay alive. Registration numbers are far below their initial projections. ICM Registry had hoped to make over $200 million in its first year. They'll be lucky if they end up with 10% of that. Meanwhile, their application for 3 more adult tlds will without a doubt dilute whatever value their original dotxxx domains may have had. The writing is already on the wall as many registrars have been forced to lower their prices on dotxxx registrations. Discounts of up to 30% or even 40% are becoming common these days. And as if all of that wasn't enough, both ICM Registry and ICANN have been sued over the dotxxx tld.

Mobile Marketing Becomes a Hotspot for Hiring

In the last 90 days, recruiters posted more than 6000 online ads for marketing professionals with mobile marketing skills. That's a 26% growth compared to last year.

Testing custom OpenX plugin

We developed a new Openx plugin to auto-adjust banner weights based on ctr. It's the first step in building a new system that displays ads based on thematic clicking patterns. Everything users do on our sites builds a "sales profile". That way users will only get to see ads for products in niches they have already shown interest for.