[LINK] kindle spammed

[Tom Koltai]

ED2K (Emule) already has a built in "trust" factor that categorises
content on search screens by it's trust colour.
The colour alters bassed on how long content is in the download
directory of the recipient after it completes.

I call this the ED2K Neilsens effect.

i.e.: if the file is garbage, it is likely to be deleted much quicker
than if not garbage.
Multiplied over several thousand hosts, the nanaoseconds of retention
add up to a crowd sourced approval referencing system 
that would in my testing appear to work.  

Possibly Amazon should adapt the XOR bit bucket trust system for Kindle
content.

Problems are that the reporting of current content available for upload
in ED2K is a function of the environment whereas similar reporting on a
Kindle would be seen as a breach of privacy.

Ergo, it needs to be developed as a ratings APP. Each book needs to have
a rating by the reader from 1 - 100.
Eventually, the spammer ratings would be overwhelmed by the real ones.

Perhaps every rating could be paid a Kindlecredit Amazon to encourage
ratings.
And perhaps, a hundred kindle credits equal a book purchase.

A self funding, automatic content referencing system.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Kim Holburn
> Sent: Saturday, 18 June 2011 8:41 AM
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> Subject: [LINK] kindle spammed
> 
> http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2011/06/kindle-e-book-store-sl
> ammed-by-spam-authors.ars
> > Kindle e-book store slammed by spam "authors"
> 
> 
> > Amazon's Kindle e-books store has been hit hard by spam in the last 
> > few months, according to Reuters. Hundreds of entities are pulling 
> > quasi-useless content found for free or for a small price on the 
> > Internet, reformatting it into e-books, and selling it under catchy 
> > titles for very little, clogging Amazon with low-value 
> materials that 
> > stand to mire the platform and maybe make customers think 
> twice about 
> > future e-book purchases.
> > 
> > Many of the books are created with Private Label Rights 
> (PLR) content, 
> > which is often milled by content creators on the Internet and then 
> > made available for free or a low price. PLR content can then be 
> > reformatted or even modified if the buyer wants, and then 
> put up for 
> > sale under virtually anyone's name. PLR content is usually of the 
> > beginner-how-to or get-rich-quick variety that baits those 
> looking for 
> > their elevator to success: make a certain number of dollars 
> in a much 
> > smaller number of days, money-making blogging for beginners, how to 
> > start an Internet marketing business.
> 
> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/16/us-amazon-kindle-spa
m-idUSTRE75F68620110616

> Spam clogging Amazon's Kindle self-publishing
> 
> (Reuters) - Spam has hit the Kindle, clogging the online bookstore of 
> the top-selling eReader with material that is far from being book 
> worthy and threatening to undermine Amazon.com Inc's publishing foray.
> 
> Thousands of digital books, called ebooks, are being published through

> Amazon's self-publishing system each month. Many are not written in 
> the traditional sense.
> 
> Instead, they are built using something known as Private Label Rights,

> or PLR content, which is information that can be bought very cheaply 
> online then reformatted into a digital book.
> 
> These ebooks are listed for sale -- often at 99 cents -- alongside 
> more traditional books on Amazon's website, forcing readers to plow 
> through many more titles to find what they want.
> 
> Aspiring spammers can even buy a DVD box set called Autopilot Kindle 
> Cash that claims to teach people how to publish 10 to 20 new Kindle 
> books a day without writing a word.
> 
> This new phenomenon represents the dark side of an online revolution 
> that's turning the traditional publishing industry on its head by 
> giving authors new ways to access readers directly.

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