RIPBLOCK: Anti Music Piracy

[[IN]Head-Kay]

After years of debating the issue and hoping that something will eventually miraculously happen to save the label scene, a couple of blokes set up this impressive new that aims to eradicate online piracy and clean the scene from the leechers for good. I stumbled across this site and I had a wide smile on face. Read what their "About Us" section said:

What We Do

We actively scan search engines, known MP3 linking sites, blogs, forums and file hosting servers for our clients copyright content, once the copyright content is located it’s then reported to the file hosting companies abuse teams for removal. We have been developing relationships with all major file hosting companies with the aim of working side by side to speed up the removal processes and head towards collecting user information on offending uploaders of copyright content. These users will be added to our “Known File Sharer Database” which will be freely available to our clients to cross reference against Beatport accounts, promo pool, online shop and newsletter databases to locate and take action against active offenders.

As a label manager for a large music publishing company I’m growing increasing tired of “the problem is to vast to tackle” attitude. We must take action in any way possible to remove the spread of our content via MP3 linking sites and file hosting websites. There are methods available to us all which prove to be very effective in stopping the spread of our content over the web.

The trend for offenders is to firstly upload copyright content by abusing legal file hosting websites such as Rapid Share, Mega Upload & Upload To, they then post links to these files on illegal MP3 linking sites providing the masses an opportunity to download the copright content for free. Using this method the offender can spread the link very simply across a vast array of websites, blogs and forums. By removing the files at the root of problem means we can significantly reduce the spread of copyright content over the web, and with continued active scanning we believe we can almost eradicate the source of the problem.

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HAHAHAHA in your face you leechers!!

[lebanese_raver]

haha i wonder how my members on this forum buy their music!

[Proof]

[[IN]Head-Kay]

[Proof]

[Fawzi]

[Nicktalopia]

They use search bots, scripted search engine dedicated bots with multi given search strings going on time interval containing release name in all possible formats as received from the vendor site ie; beatport.. Most files are usually packed in a .rar so that's one easy string to look for and locate, if nothing is found it will try other strings, sure the bot will be working round the clock switching between search intervals, file hosts and search strings, however i doubt that's going to be as effective as advertised, file hosts need at least 24 hours to delete the reported file and by then thousands will download and share the file through other ways like peer2peer, torrents and such, this can't be stopped, another hole they can't work around is page redirect services, the lechers don't have to post direct link to file hosts instead they mask it and I don't mean text masking with url redirection, this can still be read and send pirated release signals, they simply bind the original url with any url redirect host and if that's ever not effective they have other options, set password to the redirect page, no bot could ever read then transmits all that info even if it did you're gonna need massive amount of humans accessing urls each on it's own then reporting it for copyrights violation.
although it's a fairly good start Ripblock are still miles behind from even being close to end piracy, they overcharge, the prices on their page are extremely high specially for EDM labels knowing beforehand the outcome from this investment won't equal the profit if they didn't invest at all.

Last but not least there's a huge distance between piracy and ways to stop it, simply because among 100 persons there's 1 creating ways to stop it and 99 working on overcoming any solution that 1 person might come up with, you do the math on a global scale.

Spreading awareness might be a constructive key in this puzzle, having labels be more youth friendly with their price tag is another, between having a 1$, 2$, or none at all is something they need to consider, at last each one of us is one way or another taking part in the piracy vicious circle regardless of it's form, software piracy, media piracy even hardware piracy, iTunes store hasn't been doing so bad despite the complaints of it's customers Apple still managed to give back huge revenue to the labels associated with iTunes store, the future might be more stores that lock media files to each system with a stored algorithm and can be only retrieved via user account, for example you can't play an iTunes media file on more than 5 machines & you can't copy files to your ipod downloaded from more than 5 different iTunes account, these are some extreme measures yet effective, a Global store that works on this method could re size piracy by a great amount, until then Google will remain a handy tool for every pirated file seeker, it's just a cycle of profit even to the ones that play the good guy part, if it wasn't for illegal files that only by law major file share websites are forced to delete, RapidShare wouldn't be the giant it is today , is anyone going to buy a premium account to download 1 E-book instead of buying it from it's original online store or people seek premium accounts just to download thousands of MP3s and hundreds of TV episodes ? Less and less people would use Google, searching for pirated media is the next step most people do right after setting up their OS, that's how the internet and piracy are close and approached.

[Fawzi]

^OMG, THE 3 PARAGRAPHS ARE 3 SENTENCES!

[[IN]Head-Kay]

[Qulture]

[Night Stalker]

[[IN]Head-Kay]

[A-Cube]

Kay, you have to know NS. He probably wrote this reply while being overly drunk and then he passed out on the couch.

As for the topic, I think it's a good move. Leechers are certainly sweating over it. But we, err I mean they will find a new way to spread the music.

[[IN]Head-Kay]

haha Im down with that

[Fawzi]