Silver State Holding Corp.

Ed Magedson is the founder and owner of ripoffreport.com, had continually abused the Acceptable Use Policy(listed in the end of this article) to extort business owners and is now going to pay the price for it. As with most business/personal review sites on the Internet, anything stated on another site is opinion, not fact, unless it comes from the company itself. Some many companies and individual people have suffered greatly from this and one of the leaders is ripoffreport.com. There is no way to confront what another person says to start with, much less the fact that there is no verification that the person writing the report is actually who they say there are, or even credible for that matter. There are proper channels that people, such as journalists, who have to go through the proper education and channels to make such strong statements of opinion with credibility to back them up and Ed Magedson and the faceless people who put reports on ripoffreport.com. This raises the question as to why his site was seen as so credible, because through keeping his domain host, Akamai, hidden no one knew that he was violating their rules. Akamai took the first chance to absolve themselves of Ed Magedson’s mistakes by following the correct disciplinary actions for violating the Acceptable Use Policy. So many lives have suffered from this, including Silver State Holding Company. One of the most absurd reports was about “Data recovery scams over charge and steal private data from broken hard drives”, we are a grant firm, at no point do we deal with fixing broken hard drives or data recovery systems. The only thing ridiculous reports like this do is hinder the good effort honest , hard working companies are trying to establish themselves with. Don’t just take our word for it, do the research yourself and you will read about the lives that were ruined and all the false accusations made by Ed Magedson and his ripoffreport.com site.

Acceptable Use Policy of Akamai
Please review the Acceptable Use Policy of Akamai, in comparison to Ripoff Report below. These are also available to see, at the Akamai website as this is required by law.

1. Inappropriate and Illegal Content:
Customer (i.e. Ripoff Report) shall not use Akamai Network and Services to transmit, distribute, or store material that inappropriate, as reasonably determined by Akamai. This includes material that is defamatory, libelous, indecent, obscene or pornographic.

2. Intellectual Property
Customer (i.e. Ripoff Report) shall not use Akamai Network and Services in any manner that would infringe, dilute, misappropriate or otherwise violate any privacy or other personal right or any intellectual property rights.

If customer (i.e. Ripoff Report) uses a domain name in connection with it’s use of the Akamai Network and Services, such domain name must not violate any trademark, service mark, or other rights of any 3rd party.

3. Fraudulent/Misleading Content
Customer (i.e. Ripoff Report) shall not use the Akamai Network and Services to transmit or distribute material containing fraudulent offers for good or services, or any advertising or promotional materials that contain false, deceptive or misleading statements, claims or representations.

Ripoff Reports contains 230,000 reports that contain defamation and libel. In addition to obscene categories that range from prostitution to child pornographer. Ripoff Report violates the privacy of thousands of people, by publishing a person’s full name/address/phone along with the defamation and libel against their will. Ed refuses to remove any of the above, even if asked to.

Ripoff Report “pirates” the names of thousands into “meta tags” to draw visitors to their own website (all those #1 google search results), where they have things to sell them. In addition to violating trademarks and the rights of 3rd parites (everyone of those 230,000 reports) all over the place and without measure. Ripoff Report has potentially 230,000 (over 1 quarter of a million) potentially false, deceptive or misleading statement, claims or representaitons. Consider all the above with the direct threat to extort, and it’s easy to see, why this information is hidden.

Under Akamai Code of Ethics:
Akamai will never promise what we cannot deliver.
Akamai will never violate the trust of customers, their clients, business partners, employees or shareholders.
Akamai will never allow any illegal, unsafe or abusive behavior in the workplace, including harassment or discrimination of others.

Here are a couple of links to stories of what has happened.
Via ArticleBase
Via Google
Via Complaintsboard.com

Via Collective Complaints and The World Wide Web