Anti-piracy company Mediadefender is receiving a significant amount of revenue from adult affiliate programs.
MediaDefender is better-known for receiveing $4,000 to protect music albums and $3.6 million from a large studio to protect just 4 movies.
MediaDefender’s Ben Grodsky said in an email:
One of the theories I’ve had about why the LimeWire redirects sell so many porn subscriptions is because one basically can’t get porn on old versions of LimeWire because our popups and spoofs overwhelm the user.
In the same email, Adult Friend Finder was mentioned as one of the affiliate programs they were working with, and probably made a lot of cash from. This is confirmed by another email, where they discuss the conversion rates:
Adult Friend Finder converts 1 in 2000 on LimeWire. If we want more users, Dylan’s eDonkey messages would get us a lot of Europeans that are a little bit older crowd….
Full details at TorrentFreak.
