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Study: 99 percent of ads on piracy sites are considered 'high risk'

article published on 12 April, 2014

A peer reviewed study from the Federation University in Ballarat has confirmed what nearly everyone knew, that ads placed on piracy sites are high risk and should never be clicked on. As defined in the study, "high risk" categories are pornography-based (sometimes child), malware or complete scam and fraud sites. The study had researchers analyzing the "top 500 Google-upheld copyrighted ... [ read the full article ]

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Bozobub
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13. April 2014 @ 09:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Anyone who needed to be told this rather obvious fact, shouldn't be on those sites in the 1st place. Adblock+ FTW.

It's exactly congruent to how you shouldn't be on TPB, if you don't know how to install a crack.
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13. April 2014 @ 10:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hell the ads are gaining illicit money so they all should be gone after but I guess since some taxes are paid goverment will look the other way..

Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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13. April 2014 @ 11:18 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Hell the ads are gaining illicit money so they all should be gone after but I guess since some taxes are paid goverment will look the other way..
and the website owners are getting paid to have the ads on the website.

whole internet needs a clean up imo.

@Bozobub thats why a lot of torrents have a readme file in them.

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13. April 2014 @ 11:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by xboxdvl2:
Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
Hell the ads are gaining illicit money so they all should be gone after but I guess since some taxes are paid goverment will look the other way..
and the website owners are getting paid to have the ads on the website.

whole internet needs a clean up imo.

@Bozobub thats why a lot of torrents have a readme file in them.
Well it be nice if the system would just allow sharing and revenue sharing. If not at least remove all revenue steams from illicit sharing. But no they want it all so a quagmire we get.

Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
hearme0
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15. April 2014 @ 13:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
....And 99% of those people that visit are "high risk" too and should be banned from computer use.
Bozobub
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15. April 2014 @ 13:53 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
That's true, however, of every single website in existence. ^^'
ronatola
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25. April 2014 @ 20:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Tell that to my Dad who tries to stream Soccer games.
I have to clean his computer weekly.
And that's WITH an ad-blocker.
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25. April 2014 @ 21:02 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
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i think it is an O.F.U.!!!!
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