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Hi Folks,
The issue of defunct web sites being taken over by pornographers is currently being
discussed on two other lists I am on. I sent the story of NetTech and 21CT to one of them.
Today, while discussing the site at a meeting, I
demonstrated it and found it had changed since yesterday. As I looked closer at what they had done, it appeared that they were LEARNING quickly.
Here's the text of a message I sent off a few minutes ago...
Thanks for
forwarding the message, Joyce. Here's something else to forward that just transpired in the past 24 hours. If you visited either of the sites in my last message yesterday, you saw a different home page and different action than exists today. The changes are interesting from a technical stand point AND a marketing stand point.
Yesterday, when you came to the site you saw an uncensored graphic and a warning about adult content if you Entered. Today the picture is gone. Seems like the cleaned up their act, right?
Uh-uh...
Yesterday if you left the site, you left the site. If you clicked ENTER your mouse would have been trapped. A window advertising porn
would have come up and each time you closed it, you would get another until you reached a total of 4 attempts to get out. That's four click-throughs and four coins in their register. Pretty sharp from a marketing and psychology stand point.
Many porn sites trap your mouse to the extend that the average
user has to reboot the machine to get out. Because this person(s) has gobbled up so many domain names, if they trapped that way there would be such and outcry that they would upstage the Northern Alliance on CNN. They would have appeared on everyone's radar scope.
Now here's the kicker. Today, the picture is
gone, but you don't have to click ENTER to get trapped. All you have to do is to try to leave the site. If you hit the Back button on your browser or close the browser, a new porn ad comes up until you hit the magic number of 4.
Yesterday, you only made money for the pornographers if you clicked ENTER and VIOLATED YOUR ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY.
Today, you make money for the pornographers even if you do everything right!!!
Now here's the
irony! By use discussing this and passing the word, we are making MORE MONEY for them. It's a real Catch 22. Making more people aware of the site drives more traffic to them than when the were actually education sites.
You noticed that I didn't put any URL in today's message. Check out my signature line. I learned from my mistake. Someone noted that they did a link check at Altavista and there were
over 2,100 links to the 21CT site. My message of yesterday went out to many people. In sending that message, I was working to the benefit of the
porn-nappers by creating new, fresh links that people would follow.
So
when you write about this phenomenon and alert people to the fact that a site has been porn-napped. Remind people NOT to visit the site and look at the car wreck. There visit will make money for the pornographers and validate their strategy.
What's the best strategy to get the practice stopped? I don't know if they can be stopped. As long as domains sell and the clicks generate revenue, they will stay at it.
How about a
boycott, altering CNN, and
the New York Times? Let's see... If my message reached 1500 people and generated X number of hit at their site, what would happen when CNN if (when) or the NY Times lets the word out? ...and a boycott? Yeah right! The counter would spin of the page.
So calling attention to the pornography and point fingers at them has them shaking is their boots, the way B'rer Rabbit was shaking when B'rer Fox threatened to throw him in the briar patch.
As porn-napping, mouse trapping, Euro-Sluts go, these guys are pretty sharp. They have found a way to make money and the louder the outcry, the more money they make.
I haven't tried
visiting these sites from school. I can help but wonder if our filter would pick up on these pages. I'll risk making a few more pennies for them to find out.
Take care,
Art
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