Piracy: How Online Ad Networks Are Supporting The Major Pirate Movie And Music Sites

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Online piracy just won’t seem to go away. A disturbing report released today by the University of South California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab demonstrates the economic connection between the online advertising industry and pirated film, music and video content. This Advertising Transparency Report [pdf], which reveals the top ten ad networks which place the most online ads on pirate sites, has Google at #2 and Yahoo at #6 in its hall of shame. “This is where the money is,” Jonathan Taplin, the Director of the Annenberg Innovation Lab, told me about the placing on ads on pirate networks like Kim Dotcom’s Megaupload, when we spoke today. “It adds up to millions of dollars,” Taplin, who was once tour manager for Bob Dylan and produced Martin Scorsese’s first movie Mean Streets, told me. And it’s the movie makers and musicians, Taplin explained, who are the real victims of this situation because they aren’t seeing any of the revenue from the ads placed around their stolen content.[...]

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RE: P Major Pirate Movie And Music Sites

Those on that top 10 list must be paying for a lot of government expense accounts.