Philadelphia MCs Chill Moody (ESTablishmynt) and Greg PORN (Roots/MoneyMakingJamBoys) team up over this Wes ManChild production and compare stories about their lives.
Check out the video of the actual studio session below as well as the track.
The Legendary Roots crew member, Greg Porn, is back at it. This time he delivers a visual, “Salud”, which features soultress Tanzania Lateef and production by Dameadelphia. The video was shot at the 2nd St. Mummers Parade, an old Philly tradition. The video was directed by Jon Kaufman. The song will be featured on the Porn & Dame Vol. 1mini EP that will be dropping very soon.
“AMERICAN JUNKY” COMING SOON!!!!
Anonymous hits pedophiles where it hurts most…in the crotch. They have successfully hacked the hosting server, Freedom Hosting, which Anonymous purportedly states is “enabling pedophiles to view innocent children, fueling their issues and putting children at risk of abduction, molestation, rape, and death.” What was the damage you ask? Well, I wouldn’t call it damage, as it’s more along the lines of something that needed to be done (just my opinion), but 40+ websites relating to child porn were taken offline, as well as the publishing of over 1600 usernames of pedophiles to those sites. The entire list was posted on Pastebin, along with an official statement from Anonymous which even has an invitation that “If the FBI, Interpol, or other law enforcement agency should happen to come across this list, please use it to investigate and bring justice to the people listed here”
How this all came about was that Anonymous happened to be perusing Hidden Wiki, a darknet site which contained a listing of hundreds of subversive websites that normal internet users and search engines can’t access or view. They then came across a section titled “Hard Candy,” that happened to be dedicated to child pornography links. Anonymous then took the steps that any one of us with that sort of knowledge would do, take those bastards offline. I, for one, support what they have done and hope they continue to attack sites of this nature.
Fresh off the critically acclaimed, The Roots ”Undun” album, The Legendary Roots Crew affiliate and Money Making Jam Boys member, Greg Porn, releases his first song from his upcoming project, “American Junky“. The song is entitled “The World Is Yours” and is produced by Ali Bey of BeatKhemist. Greg Porn recently shot the video for “The World Is Yours“, so be on the lookout for that real soon.
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Another week, another podcast… Did you miss us? Dont lie…
This week Our group discussion featured Kevin Golden x Spit x Mr. Blair x Special guest I Am Not A Rapper fashion blogger Andrea (V3nusVsMars)
Topics Discussed: Facebook Porn x Google F*ck ups x Blair’s attack on ”The Skorpion Show” x The negative image of African American Muslims x Lark Voorhies married to Martin Lawrence? x #NBABack ? & What does the NBA Lockout ending actually mean? x Real T.O. Tears x Questlove Vs Michelle Bachman x Kevin being honorary Darkskinned (Just for kicks, Google “Darkskinned”) x of course the infamous #FML Stories x etc…
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This weeks musical interludes provided by: 1) The Vacationers – Trip 2) Black Star – You Already Knew 3) Kendrick Lamar – Rigamortis Remix Feat Busta Rhymes 4) Dj Pogo – Alice (Disney Remix)
For the past few days an exploit has been hijacking Facebook users accounts and posting explicit gore and pornography to users’ timelines.
Facebook users’ outrage is mounting toward the social network for an exploit that is currently turning unsuspecting users’ newsfeeds into unstoppable torrents of hardcore pornography and gory, violent pictures.
UPDATE: Facebook now claims to have closed its browser exploit and cleaned up the spam. Facebook had confirmed the problemNovember 15th and assented that the gore-porn-linkspam exploit is a coordinated attack and their engineers were “working on the self-XSS vulnerability in the browser.” If your account has been compromised try this tutorial to fix it. /Update
It started a few days ago, and right now is becoming an out of control exploit that has users angry and disgusted, while seemingly mocking Facebook’s notorious conservative content controls.
Earlier today the Christian Post published an outraged and disgusted item saying that Facebook had become a pit for violent and pornographic photos – and as it turns out, they were among the first to detail an exploit that is turning Facebook into the graphic horror of 4Chan/b.
A linkspam virus with the usual bait – Kim Kardashian, etc. – is luring users into clicking media-rich links, now more available thanks to Facebook’s recent timeline upgrades. Once clicked, their feeds become vectors for images containing hardcore sex, extreme violence, gore and death.
Many people are pointing fingers at Anonymous, but no claim has been made for the attack.
Anon is more than a whipping post for this one; a while back Anonymous announced intentions to take Facebook out for a variety of reasons, with a November 5 attack of some kind in the works, and rumors of a “Guy Fawkes virus” – none of which have been confirmed via usual routes (such as Anon press releases).
No matter who is behind it, the Facebook attack is extreme, and spiraling out of control.
On Twitter, Facebook users are venting no small amount of disgust – not necessarily at the porn, but most certainly at the bashed-in heads of corpses, photos of dead babies and animals, and yes, the overlarge penises and graphic scenes of penetration that have flooded streams.
The style of images is very much along the lines of 4Chan/b, which is where the genesis of Anonymous occurred.
For many it is too much, and users are avoiding the site and facing down the chore of deactivating their accounts to prevent assaulting friends, family and coworkers with unwanted imagery.
According to realtime search on Twitter, the Christian Post and now Gawker, the gore-porn virus has been gathering steam for the past few days.
Having your feed hijacked with gross stuff is no walk in the park, though some of us are less troubled by adult imagery than others. Facebook itself is known for being far more prudish than most of its users. That’s worth nothing when looking at the overall attack.
Meaning, while I tire of Facebook’s hypocrisies around adult content, it is quite a comment to see an exploit enacted with a bizarrely clever slap at the one thing Facebook is such an extreme hypocrite about.
The content of the imagery in its context was obviously well considered. In this, if intentional, this seems to me a much more direct attack on Facebook – the company – rather than an attack on its users.
So if you see your boss, your granny, or Sarah Palin posting hardcore porn or dead kittens on Facebook – you can blame it on the exploit. For now.
YouPorn has been dethroned as the king of porn online.
When we first looked at 008, YouPorn was emerging as a leader with very little competition, and it continued to reign through the following year.
Now, at 25.7 million unique monthly visitors, PornHub is the new, unrivaled YouTube of porn.
The site was surging by triple digit percentage rates (year-over-year) in the months of 2010. While its growth has ‘stalled’ at 44% year-over-year for this July, PornHub is still smoking the competition as shown in the chart above.
A side note: PornHub just made a $5 million offer to obtain the right of Kim Kardashian’s sextape from Vivid Entertainment, which was shopping the rights to the tape for $30 million
An adult film performer has tested positive for HIV, prompting an industry-wide shut down.
Production of most adult films has stopped in Southern California while the performer is re-tested. The name and gender of the performer is not being released.
If the initial case is confirmed, the group will ask two generations of the person’s sexual partners to get tested, meaning those who had sex with the performer and the sexual partners of those who had sex with the performer.
The voluntary industry shutdown affects porn producers in the San Fernando Valley, the heart of the multi-billion dollar American porn industry.
The 010, after a porn actor was diagnosed HIV positive.
A health advocacy group is hoping to place a measure on next year’s Los Angeles city ballot requiring adult film performers to use condoms. Earlier this month they announced that it will gather 41,138 petition signatures to get the issue of condoms in porn on the June 2012 ballot.
With a quick search of your name on any given “peoplefinder” website, you’ll see your name, date of birth, names of family members, current and past addresses, your phone number and gender. Some sites will also reveal your marital status, your hobbies, your online profiles, and maps or a photo of your house.
Many peoplefinder sites will give up enough to make you choke on your latte without a registration or a fee, so anyone with an internet connection can stalk you from their couch (or office) with about twenty keystrokes.
Scary? Completely.
No, this isn’t a fluff post, and I’m not being paranoid. I just spent weeks investigating the process of having one’s personal data wiped from these sites and interviewing Sarah A. Downey, lawyer and privacy analyst at Abine. Abine is a privacy startup in Cambridge that is in the business of deleting individuals from these sites.
The complicated opt-out procedures are daunting, and now I’m pretty convinced that they’re intentionally intimidating for the average Jane. I discovered Abine through Downey’s popular Reddit post about how to opt-out from people search site BeenVerified. I emailed Downey for an interview after using Abine’s DeleteMe product and trying opt-out tips from Redditors.
In case you’re wondering, this is a pretty scary thing to research and test on yourself. In one instance, I found my home address and a map with a simple search on one of the bigger websites, available without a purchase.
What these sites offer is essentially every woman’s nightmare, on tap.
In preparation for this article, I combined doing my own opt-outs with purchasing Abine’s DeleteMe product. I am in no way affiliated with Downey or Abine.
In my research and estimation, Abine seems to be the primary independent clean-up service. There are other options but I have not had personal experience with them, and before trying them out I’d recommend research and peer reviews, as I’ve noticed that some “reputation” and data privacy services are not what they seem.
For instance, US Search (now owned by peoplesearch giant Intelius) was sued last October by the FTC for promising customers their PrivacyLock service would block customers’ data from public access (PrivacyLock’s own claims to remove individuals from results were false). Reputation.com – aka ReputationDefender – has a partnership with people search service Spokeo, making some people wonder how closely the companies are linked.
As you’re about to read, these “people search” sites would really rather that no one privacy-minded noticed them at all. In fact, getting yourself removed is a complete hassle and as I found out in some cases – it’s not even possible.
Tip #1: Right now it’s unclear whether these sites retain the information you enter into their search boxes; many suspect this is one of the ways they collect data. Avoid typing your info directly into these sites by Googling the site name along with your name.
Your personal information: it’s a fire sale with no limits
So-called “peoplefinder” and “background check” sites paint a rosy picture of being online databases where, for free or a fee, anyone can look up contact information to find relatives, find the owners of lost pets, where nervous online daters can make sure they’re not about to date a felon, and where businesses can check out potential employees. And people do.
These sites are in the business of posting your personal information for anyone to see, and search.
As you’d suspect, they have a much darker use for people with bad intentions. I have experienced this personally, and I’m sure the victims of things like “Porn Wikileaks” have as well.
People search sites get their data from public records and corporations selling your information to them (including third-party fine print agreements you agree to by using businesses such as Facebook and eBay).
Downey explained that one way they get your info is via social networks:
[One common example is] social networking info, which sometimes depends on the site’s TOU regarding sharing info with third parties, as well as your privacy selections on that site (e.g., your Facebook likes and interests, your friends, your tweets, the work information you provide to LinkedIn).
Intelius’ blog underscores the use of social network data. In a post about the acrimony between privacy pundits and data brokers, Intelius stated:
In the midst of a social media phenomenon, consumer advocacy groups show how free basic public records have recently transformed into more robust reports from aggregators like Spokeo.com, who compile a wide range of information, including personal information from social networking sites.
The average consumer, they argue, is unaware of how much of the personal information is online and how it is being used. In a new age of modern permanent records, popular sites like Facebook and Twitter are the face of a hidden world of commercial data brokers.
The bold is mine; I reached out to Intelius asking them to explain that very sentence and Intelius has not responded to request for comment at this time. As an aside, the company they mention, Spokeo, was recently sued for using web tracking technology that allegedly violates Federal privacy laws.
But what about those public records? A “public record” includes anything prepared by a government employee or in furtherance of government records. All public records are accessible through the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, both federal and state – and the laws surrounding them vary from state to state.
It’s totally legal to access public records – except the way we access public records has changed since the advent of the internet, and it’s shattered the kind of privacy we all used to enjoy. Abine’s analyst Downey observes:
People search sites argue that they’re merely displaying public record information. I think that’s a bullshit argument, though. As someone for whom the First Amendment is the closest thing I have to religion, even I can see that an industry-specific limitation on only these people search websites wouldn’t have an impact on the First Amendment at large.
Even if something is classified as public record information, we can still limit the context and means in which it’s retrieved. That’s really the issue here: the high visibility and accessibility of the internet has made public records much more public than they ever were before. Perhaps you should still be able to access this information, but you’d have to go to town hall to do it. You could no longer stalk someone on Intelius from your couch.
The many masks of a few shady data dealers
These data dealers can be divided into two broad categories in terms of how they get and distribute their information.
Primary sites are the big dogs of data: they get their information through public record sources, while secondary sites aggregate their information through automated data mining of other sites. Notable primary sites are Intelius, LexisNexis, Spoke, WhitePages, BeenVerified, and DOBSearch.
Intelius, for instance, offers “over 100 intelligence services” including a simple people search that provides a person’s address, phone numbers, and a background report promising to show any criminal activity.
I’m guessing that after reading this far you’re already searching for yourself on some of these sites. You’re probably noticing that there are a lot of inaccuracies – there are. Though there is also enough true information to give anyone a coronary.
Or like me you saw crazy, glaring inaccuracies repeated on different sites. The inaccuracies are often so unfathomable they make you think that your identity has been hijacked, resulting in different names and addresses incorrectly associated with your own – or even criminal records and vocations assigned to your profiles that you know you don’t have in your own history.
Many of these sites are notoriously incorrect and sloppy in their data compilation. Abine’s Downey explains,
The secondary-producer people search sites are aggregators, meaning they collect their information from other people search sites, both primary and secondary, social networks, online accounts, online tracking, blogs, etc. A few notable examples you may be familiar with are Spokeo, Radaris, Yasni, Pipl, and 123People.
They appear to have a much greater wealth and depth of knowledge, but they’re notoriously inaccurate. It’s like they’re playing telephone and they’re much further down the receiving line.
Even big player 008 SEC filing that the information that it and similar companies sell is often inaccurate and out of date.
You can check out anytime you like, but you can’t ever leave
Not surprisingly, these companies don’t make it easy for individuals to opt-out. Some make it seem like you have to register for the site. Or like “Free People Search Engine” Radaris, they actually force you to register and agree to their terms in order to opt-out.
Essentially, you end up giving them your data in the effort to have yourself removed.
Many sites require that you scan and provide your ID, and include onerous procedures such as accepting opt-out request letters only via fax or postal mail. This seems to be a standard.
Tip #2: Never scan and send your ID to anyone without blacking out your photo and ID number.
The opt-out precesses all frustratingly different. While many of the companies are owned by each other, each has its own opt-out procedure and some of the sites don’t even state an opt-out is possible in their front-facing privacy policies.
People search sites don’t like to make opting-out easy. In one instance, Downey resorted to emailing BeenVerified, citing an FTC Act that states it is an unfair trade practice to not allow people to remove their info from databases such as theirs.
As of now, there is no FTC Act that states we have the right to get our names and addresses off these sites; what the current Act does say is that these sites must uphold their Terms of Service.
Tip #3: Do you think this is wrong? Here is a link to the FTC’s Complaint Form.
According to Downey, getting your data off once is not enough because the sites buy data and aggregate more info continually, making it likely that if you don’t take precautions, you’ll be put back in. Worse, Downey tells me,
I’ve also noticed that one company in particular, BeenVerified, has been repopulating opted-out information every 3 months. I have been documenting it as I see it happen to DeleteMe customers, and I’m drafting an FTC complaint that I plan on releasing both as a legal complaint and a blog post for the site.
Abine seems to like helping people opt-out on their own, though one can also use their service DeleteMe and they will do it for you. I used both to see how each works.
While maintaining a privacy blog that’s like delicious junk food for us pro-privacy people, Abine’s Downey also got fed up one day and decided to post a how-to on removing yourself from background checks on Reddit.
Actually, she stated the reason was “Because it’s bullshit that corporations buy and sell our personal information.”
As someone who’s been on the fuzzy end of the lollipop with these sites, that’s a good enough reason for me.
Because there are so many of these sites and they are on the increase, a second post with more complete opt-out info followed it, and one Redditor created the grassroots site Unlistmy.info.
Tip #4: Spread the word.
Downey tells me that Abine is currently working on an even larger, comprehensive public and free DIY opt-out list to provide an open and transparent resource for everyone.
Today, a new top-level domain name, .xxx, comes online. That means you’ll have websites ending with .xxx instead of just .com, .net or .org. Obviously this was intended for online porn which, like it or not, is a big part of the internet.
Perhaps paradoxically, the porn industry isn’t too happy about it, Washington Times reports. Basically, online porn companies don’t want to pay for new .xxx domain names to protect brands that they built with .com names, and the fee is $60 per domain or more, which is pretty high.
A porn mogul wrote to xbiz.net, a trade publication: “Why would I want to put $60 in ICM‘s pocket? To protect my brand? That’s extortion.” Another one wrote: “If I’d buy every .xxx domain for every .com I have, that would be $12,000 per year. For nothing.”
Meanwhile ICM says people should buy .xxx because it will be “a Good Housekeeping Seal of approval for adult sites.”
ICM also sells “opt-out” registrations for businesses that don’t want someone to snap up their .xxx domain name for their brand — think disney.xxx or mcdonalds.xxx — for $200 to $300.
Let the games begin.
At a recent summit, porn industry leaders and an expert panel held a discussion with .XXX’s Vaughn Liley. The open industry Q and A, to form the industry’s business plans for the new TLD, did not go well.
Big Porn’s take-away illustrates a troubling future where vanity TLDs are nothing more than a frontier for prospectors that look more like copyright trolls than legitimate prospects.
ICANN’s board recently voted to increase the number of Internet domain name endings–generic Top-Level Domains (gTLDs)–from the current 22 to a unlimited number of new Top Level Domains. The vanity extensions could range from .apple to .zynga – but right now the very first of the vanity TLDs is getting ready for opening registration day: the porn extension .XXX.
In preparation, .XXX’s ICM Registry is sending their Director of Sales Vaughn Liley to adult conferences, summits and conventions to meet with porn industry leaders and “win hearts and minds.”
According to the ICM Registry website, “.XXX domains will be allocated to applicants on a first-come, first-served basis. Starts December 6, 2011.”
Watch the one-hour video of his appearance on a recent panel along with Connor Young (President and CTO of YNOT Group), Tom Hymes (AVN) and Eric M. Bernstein (Attorney at Law) with questions from a conference room of leading porn webmasters, and I think you’ll agree that the feeling is more of a sinking one, than a soaring one.
After ten years of saying no and vocal opposition by everyone potentially affected from an .XXX top level domain – everyone except .XXX profiteers, that is – last Thursday ICANN officially approved .XXX.
Porn already owns the best .COM real estate it ever needs. Yet now .XXX’s pimp daddies at ICM Registry and its backers have free reign to scoop up all the domain squatting and defensive registrations they can handle.
No one is looking at an .XXX domain and thinking, “That’s where I’ll cash in.” They’re thinking, “I better buy my business name, my daughter’s name, and my own name… just in case.”
ICM claims it will only sell domains to those their own 5013c “management” arm IFFOR deems as “officially in the adult entertainment industry.” It is unclear how this is determined. Meanwhile, ICM has already pre-sold over a quarter million domains.
Internet porn giant Kink.com knows a protective business decision when it sees one: Kink felt strong-armed to pre-purchase their brand’s domains in the copycat .XXX realm to protect their brands, and have defensively purchased thousands of domains.
Sure, it’s porn’s money to spend as they please. And you don’t have to buy anything, either. But this speaks volumes to the false sense of endorsement that may have contributed to one of ICANN’s most confusing decisions to hand piles of money to (more…)
Time Warner Cable, one of the nation’s largest Internet service providers, has refused to turn over customers accused in a lawsuit by Larry Flynt Publishing of pirating one of the company’s porn films, according to Flynt’s attorney.
In October, Dallas-based attorney Evan Stone filed three separate lawsuits against more than 4,000 “John Does,” alleging the defendants illegally shared the movie “This Ain’t Avatar XXX.” The copyright suit was filed on behalf of Larry Flynt Publishing (LFP), which oversees Flynt’s adult-entertainment empire, including Hustler magazine.
The identities of the accused are unknown because Stone only possesses Internet protocol addresses of people alleged to have used peer-to-peer software to pirate films. To identify the defendants, he needs each person’s ISP to match IP addresses to names. Stone said TWC agreed to only turn over 10 names per month, an amount that he said is totally unsatisfactory. A TWC spokesman declined to commen
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