RipBlock is a new anti-piracy service aimed at independent music labels.
RipBlock is currently working with a rapidly growing number of labels, and has proved to be an efficient, cost-effective and valuable service.
RipBlock essentially tackles piracy from the root of the problem, by conducting ongoing comprehensive scans of any blogs, forums and/or file share sites that are hosting or providing links to illegal downloads of your release.
RipBlock’s service includes:
- Scanning the web for your release
- Reporting any illegal content and monitoring its removal
- Compiling a full report every two weeks, detailing all removed content and all offending usernames
A standard scan lasts for two weeks and costs from £50 / 53 euro / $78 per release.
In addition, Ripblock offers extended scanning tailored to your label’s requirements.
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 is 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.
Additionally, we are in the process of 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 promo pool, online retailer and user databases to locate and take action against active offenders.
As a label manager for a large music publishing company, I grew increasingly tired of “the problem is too 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 have proved to be highly effective in preventing the spread of content over the web.
The trend for offenders is to firstly upload copyright content by abusing legal file hosting websites such as Rapidshare, Megaupload and Upload.to. They then post links to these files on illegal MP3 linking sites providing the public with 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, we can significantly reduce the spread of copyright content over the web, and with continued active scanning, we believe we can start to eradiacte the source of the problem.
We can also remove content from numerous torrent sites.
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