greatandhra.com's Venkat is arrestedin Bangalore
Greatandhra.com's Venkat Reddy is arrested in Bangalore by Police on the complaint of senior politician and leader for writing untruthful, defaming,abusive articles on varied people as per tv9 news.
Greatandhra.com is one of the popular gossips portal with close to half million page views every day and is visited more frequently by males who are in the age range 25-34, It is ranked as 228th popular site in India with about 2500 ranking world wide. GreatAndhra.com writes gossips on popular film personalities as well as political leaders promoting yellow journalism 'greatly' says many bloggers. As we can see the motto of greatandhra.com is 'dare to write" !!
At one time GreatAndhra.com's forums had pronographic pictures and lead into pronographic sites which probably caused by hackers. Offlate, many sites mushroomed following same lines of greatandhra.com's business model of writing gossips, abusive articles, close to xxx articles to attract no of page views there by google ads revenues i.e making few cents at the cost of others.
On similar lines there are many piracy portals who provide access to pirated movies on site to get Google ad revenues hurting film industry. However these sites totally ignores ( or don't care) the damage they do to the indivudal's they target & write articles on and they totally forget the privacy as well as how they impact individual's personal & public life. For a public personality where credibility in public is the key,which takes multiple years of hard work and in few cases it even takes generations is tainted with these untruthful, ugly articles written by these sites.
In addition to writing these damaging articles, greatandhra.com also writes reviews on the 'just' released films which are read by many. Any untruthful feedback / reviews hurts the producer. Many times these reviews are written sitting in Bangalroe or somewhere without even watching the movie and also many times expresses biased view on films allowing favoratism. The lower the rating of a film, highly criticised the film saying that is not good, this is not good higher the readership of these reviews directly damaging the film producers who invest multi millions to make a film. These movie reviews also encourage people to watch movies online FREE from pirated sites rather than enjoying the movies in theater with a mind set ' either way the film is not good since it is rated low!' once the reviews sets mind of people saying that it is not worthwhile to go to theaters to watch these movies. Many times the grandeur of film can be enjoyed only in theaters but not by wathcing on pirated copy online. These sites lead viewers into a vicious circle cashing on their visits to the sites - first to read the reviews followed with to watch pirated movie on line.
There are many open letters and requests to greatandhra.com's owner on the web as well as in forums to stop these damaging, insulting articles. More over the articles are written taking sides as well as created articles in many instances possibly just to attract readership.Some of the articles written on movie actors are close to pronographic site's short stories are unwarranted or unjustified, which are written to get few cents of google ad revenues at other's cost and causing agony to the suffered. It went to great heights of naming elected legislators and people representatives as 'comedians'..etc. For almost 10 years people took these insult with silent brunt and at last one person made a difference by complaining to Police and taking legal avenues to arrest these acts. As per one of the internet based aggregator, greatandrha.com's ad revenues are estimated to be more than half million USD. One should 'dare to write' the truth but not abusive, untruthful gossips at other's cost!!!!
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