AVNADS.COM and Adbrite: Fusker buddies

[Verbal]

Thanks Aly for your efforts. We all appreciate it.

The best way to attack the Fusker problem I think, is at the partner/sponsor/host level. Make their partners aware of the situation and if they still do nothing, expose them on the boards.

[Agent]

Pud, now I know why that name is familiar...I used to read FuckedCompany for shits and giggles once in a while. What's his history in the adult biz? I haven't been following his work since the occasional FuckedCompany visit.

[Ann Omness]

I'm just glad to see that fusker was removed from the adbrite system. I spend quite a bit of money with adbrite and it bothered me that a site like fusker was one of the higher-traffic sites in their listings. I run a popular blog toplist and I always delete any blogs I find using fuskered content, or that contain a link to fusker. I am amazed and gratified that AVN was so responsive to this issue when it was brought to their attention. Thanks, Aly!

[urb]

Who else is sponsoring Fusker?
DVD Dollars dvddollars.com

[cd34]

Sent to ami@dvddollars.com

a. Affiliate's Representations and Warranties. You represent and warrant that (i) you have full power and authority to enter into this Agreement; (ii) entering into and performance of this Agreement by you does not violate, conflict with, or result in a material default under any other contract or agreement to which you're a party, or by which you're bound; and (iii) the Affiliate Site shall not infringe, violate or misappropriate any copyright, trade secret, trademark, or other proprietary or intellectual property right of any third party or constitute libel, defamation, invasion of privacy or the violation of any right of publicity or any other right of any third party. SugarDVD is not responsible for the content of the Affiliate Site. SugarDVD's exclusive remedy for breach of the foregoing representations and warranties shall be your indemnification obligation set forth in Section 14(b) below.

Since Fusker gets traffic based on the theft and referral of copyrighted images hosted on other people's servers, this appears to be in direct violation of your Terms and Conditions.

http://fusker.lewww.com/index.php?offset=30

http://www.sugardvd.com/?refaff=12995 (is the affiliate link to your program at the bottom of the page)

Join in the discussion if you would like to defend your position of maintaining this affiliate or announce this affiliate's termination.
http://www.greenguysboard.com/board/...ad.php?t=17808

[urb]

Nice email... thanks

[Jim]

Don't jump so quickly, guys.
I just spoke to a sponsor that is on the fusker site and guess what? Their ads were being served by adbrite. They had no idea their link was there.

[urb]

Originally Posted by Jim

Don't jump so quickly, guys.
I just spoke to a sponsor that is on the fusker site and guess what? Their ads were being served by adbrite. They had no idea their link was there.

Sorry Jim, I'll call off the dogs.

[cd34]

If you look at the way the site is laid out, I believe they have a direct relation with dvddollars.com as the adbright links are not served (it says the site is inactive)

[Jim]

No, no...I am just saying, some sponsors there, don't know they are there.

[cd34]

although, they may actually be quite intertwined with dvddollars since their referral link does change using subdomains and different spellings.

[urb]

The Google cached version shows an affiliate link of /?refaff=12995
As Chris just pointed out, hitting refresh on the current version brings up variations of the domain.

Contacted ami via Netpond and the reaction was one of shock.

[Useless]

They may have pulled themselves from fusker.lewww, but there are plenty of other sites they are still advertising on that are indentical in practice, such as Ripper and Usefulidiot. Take a gander at this page: http://dir.avnads.com/index.cgi?a=86

[LadyB]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

They may have pulled themselves from fusker.lewww, but there are plenty of other sites they are still advertising on that are indentical in practice, such as Ripper and Usefulidiot. Take a gander at this page: http://dir.avnads.com/index.cgi?a=86

After looking at that page I find it hard to believe that this was all an "accident" and "nobody knew" what types of sites alot of these are. : /

[ronnie]

Thats so funny the fusker traffic selling for 10-12 cents a click, oh ya gotta be some quality traffic there.

Another one I've been seeing in my logs is http://www.babehunt.org/fusker/index.php DONT GO THERE, as norton went off on me. But again, all kinds of adbrite ads on the page. Also ass traffic and give me pink ads. Saw some payserve galleries listed. Just wanted the powers to be know, yet another site.

ronnie

[noooze]

i hate fusker and all asian sites
I had a typo and resulted in a syntax error in my httaccess... guess what
they just burned like 500-800 $ in banwith and i'm stuck with that f**** bill.
arrghhh i hate 'em. after i discovered it my kb usage has dropped 50 % or more

let em hang i say

[RawAlex]

Pud, you might want to get your minions to actually spend a moment working on this situations.

http://www.fusker.com/

adbrite all over the front page. Didn't you guys look part the end's of your noses?

Alex

[RawAlex]

I recommend highly that adbrite take a few moments to run a grep on their serverlogs and look for refers from fusker. it isn't enough to just take down the single site that was named. A proactive approach to stopping bandwidth theft and copyright infringement is an important part of an honest and upfront business.

Email sent to pud and Aly again, there is a list of sites on the front of fusker, all which appear to use adbrite. it would appear that adbrite is the default advertising system installed when a new version of fusker is sold ($100 per copy, and you have to keep the ads on the page!).

I am starting to wonder if there is a more clear partnership arrangement here.

Alex

[ami]

Originally Posted by urb

The Google cached version shows an affiliate link of /?refaff=12995
As Chris just pointed out, hitting refresh on the current version brings up variations of the domain.

Contacted ami via Netpond and the reaction was one of shock.

Hi all! Certaintly wish that my first post on this board was...well...not having to deal with shady Affiliates, but I do GREATLY appreciate Urb and cb34 giving me a head's up.

HOWEVER...thanks to your vigilance, and because of hot linking, as of today we will no longer make payments on any
traffic sent to our site from http://fusker.lewww.com/index.php?offset=30.

SugarDVD and all affiliated sites, have no interest in maintaining/developing relationships with Affiliates/Web"masters" who steal from the very people who are the heart of our Affiliate Program.

I am relatively new to the organization, and was hired as Affiliate Manager specifically to make sure that all of our Affiliates interests were being served, and that they were taken care of. I'll be looking at Affiliate sign-ups in a whole new way going forward.

Thanks Again...and um...hello board

[RawAlex]

Ami, go to see you around, and congrats on taking the most important step: Stop paying thieves. That goes a long way to solving the issue.

I would highly recommend to all programs out there to take a few moments and have someone grep your referal logs for the last 24 hours and look for terms like "fusker" and fukster" and other similar things. You don't want to accidentally be providing payouts and financial support to people who's only goal is to steal bandwidth and violate copyright in a major manner.

I think I am going to start a list of domains with fusker on it, so that programs can move to get rid of these losers once and for all.

Alex

[urb]

Thank you Ami, and welcome to the board.

[fris]

adbrite/avnads is a good network for advertising and i have used them for many campaigns. and every advertiser on there is solid except fusker. i have used many. but fusker.lewww.com is probably the only one on there. if you check their stats. they are at 3million page views a day. and yes they have hit my server and almost put it in the ground where i couldnt even log in load averages went up to 600. but there is a lot of good sites on adbrite/avnads. but the fuskers are the evilones.

[LadyB]

Good news ami!

[Altheon]

Not protecting your images with .htaccess is like going on vacation and leaving your doors unlocked. Is it wrong if your house gets robbed...Yes. Should you be surprised...No.

It is so easy to protect your images and render Fusker and the hotlinking menace dead in its tracks.

-A

[Boogie]

jeez, at this rate its just going to stop being profitble fucking other webmasters up the ass.

unless you run gay sites i guess.

/bwahahahaha