{"id":695631,"date":"2010-03-19T07:38:52","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2010-03-19T07:38:52","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T11:38:52","slug":"piracy-studies-as-a-spam-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/695631","title":{"rendered":"Piracy Studies As a Spam Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freakbits.com\/media\/spam.jpg?w=780\" align=\"right\"  alt=\"spam\" \/>Over the last years we&#8217;ve seen dozens of piracy surveys. Thousands of news outlets and blogs generally cover the results, which turned the subject into a cheap and effective way of spamming unrelated services.<span id=\"more-1739\"><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>This week, another insignificant survey was published, claiming that 82% of all Brits download illegally. However, what really caught our eye in the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/Technology\/Free-Music-Searches-For-Illegal-Downloads-Prompt-Survey-Into-British-Attitudes-To-Online-Piracy\/Article\/201003315576542?lpos=Technology_News_Your_Way_Region_9&#038;lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15576542_Free_Music_Searche\">reports<\/a> was the following.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Mark Pearson, managing director of the MyVoucherCodes.co.uk website that commissioned the survey said [blabla]&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Really? Why would a coupon site commission a study on piracy?<\/p>\n<p>The answer is not that hard. In only costs a few hundred bucks to do the survey and there could be hundreds of sites that pick it up, generating a lot of Google link juice. It&#8217;s a cheap method to get a spammy service advertised on high profile sites and it certainly beats the cost of real advertising. <\/p>\n<p>Sad but true.<\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last years we&#8217;ve seen dozens of piracy surveys. Thousands of news outlets and blogs generally cover the results, which turned the subject into a cheap and effective way of spamming unrelated services. This week, another insignificant survey was published, claiming that 82% of all Brits download illegally. However, what really caught our eye [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2593,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-695631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2UXR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2593"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}