Sometimes the ease of internet content transfer is used for good. Take, for example, Bob Ciaffone, who has worked with PokerProf to create a semi-freely distributable electronic copy of Robert\’s Rules of Poker. This, of course, makes the world a better place.
But then there are those who want to cut-and-paste the internet for bad porn. Don\’t ask me why, but I was doing a search earlier today for \”derek boswell +poker\”. And in doing so, I came across this site. Scroll about a third of the way down, and you\’ll see they have pilfered a bunch of Pokerati content and swapped out certain phrases with their own gambling-related links that really are connected to porn.
I guess I should be tickled, or at least not surprised, to know that Pokerati-lit and porno go hand in hand. (Apparently you people like Russian girls.) But what doesn\’t seem right is that I\’m not getting a cut someone is using Pokerati without permission to fool Google and profit off the exploitation of women.
The best I can tell via a whois search is that this is the work of one Andrew Gurin, a California pornographer who for whatever reason now makes his home in Ecuador and/or the Ukraine.
Considering that enforcing a cease-and-decist might require negotiations by the UN, all I can say, really, is … bad poker karma, dude.
Seriously, may the river be very bad to you.