Look up the IP address of these spammers and you’ll almost always find addresses allocated by APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Centre) and RIPE (Réseaux IP Européens). Still, we believe companies are responsible for the behavior of their marketing partners, and despite Wondershare’s official anti-spam policy, there is still some Wondershare spam being posted on forums, including our own.)įor those of you running forums of your own and plagued with this crud, here’s a hint. Wondershare blames these events on its low-quality marketing affiliates, and it’s clear that the volume of spam from Wondershare has dropped precipitously in the past year. However, when we looked around the Macworld Forums, CNet’s forums, and PCWorld’s forums, we found several instances over the last year of spam promoting the Wondershare brand. ( Update: Representatives of Wondershare contacted us to say that while it might have spammed in the past, the company has taken a hard line against spamming in the past year and has stopped spamming itself. But the Wondershare version is priced $6 more at $45. The iSkysoft and Aimersoft versions each cost $39. Much the same tool is selling under three different names-iSkysoft DVD Ripper, Wondershare DVD Ripper, and Aimersoft DVD Ripper. For example, one of these parent companies, Wondershare, has at least two affiliate brands-iSkySoft and Aimersoft. To add to the confusion (or deception) they’re sometimes priced differently. One of the tactics of these companies is to confuse potential customers by offering dozens of versions of the same tool under just as many dozens of brands.
If you have an aversion to spammers and the wares they peddle, here’s a handy list of companies to avoid:Īnd there are plenty more. However, I have no problem naming the companies that have spammed us in the last several months-and yes, this company is among them. I won’t reveal the name of that particular company in this context because I think such e-mail should be confidential. Additionally, they create shareware sites that, coincidentally enough, rave about these products in fake reviews. These companies will often first pose a question along the lines of “How do I convert my videos for the iPad?” and then, under a different identity (but using the same IP address), answer their own question with a recommendation for one of these tools.
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The software is advertised through forum spam-usually in the form of tutorials that show you how to use it-but there’s sock puppeting going on as well.
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I had the opportunity to test one- iSkysoft’s $39 DVD Ripper ( ) and it wasn’t good-there were an overwhelming number of presets (many of which produced poor results) and regardless of which preset you used the resulting video wasn’t nearly as good as video ripped with free software such as HandBrake ( ). The interfaces are invariably garish and the UI clumsy. The software’s interface is skinned differently for each brand, but is otherwise the same in terms of functionality. Invariably open-source software like FFmpeg lies underneath this stuff, though it’s not always credited as it’s supposed to be. A Chinese-based company creates these utilities-generally some kind of media converter or ripper.
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