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full decision and docket https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/virginia/vaedce/1:2018cv00957/393537/30/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/dis
by wp381640 8y ago
full decision and docket
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/virginia/vaedce/1:2018cv00957/393537/30/ https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/virgini...
my biggest question from this case is if and how defendant is earning enough income from the websites to hire lawyers - i'm thinking it might have something to do with the .exe the sites push on users
edit: yep - that is what he's doing, multiple systems mark his download as adware/trojan downloader
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/94d20c4dbb3304ccfdcee04bdf2c453f6cad6fc8a28eb1c3e35e30ce0facac10/detection https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/94d20c4dbb3304ccfdcee04bdf...
- Phil_Latio 8y agoYou don't have to depend on adware with this amount of users. https://www.similarweb.com/website/flvto.biz https://www.similarweb.com/website/flvto.biz
- wp381640 8y agothe docket mentions that - it's 260M sessions/visits p.a but only ~10% are from the USA with most traffic from emerging markets, so not really monetizable[0] pay-per-download malware, otoh, can pay $5+ a hit even in those markets the court filings don't mention malware but it might be a much more effective way to have the domains seized [0] also indicative of this is the ad networks used - propellerads, pushwhy, addthis, yandex - the first two are blocked almost everywhere because of malware distribution
- marcinzm 8y agoAs I understand it, it's hard to monetize shady websites using anything except shady things like adware. Look at 4chan and it's perpetual struggle to get advertisers.
- tinus_hn 8y ago4chan is known for hosting porn and snuff. Flvto is for downloading YouTube videos.
- gammateam 8y agothe defendant could also have multiple sources of money, what a concept