Blueprint Ventures and its porn problem

December 12, 2006 | Matt Marshall

Apologies for those who couldn’t get to VentureBeat’s website yesterday. Traffic was robust, and our servers aren’t as capable as we thought.

At least we haven’t been taken over by Russian hackers. That’s what happened with Blueprint Ventures’ website. Worse, it’s been turned into a pornography link page (for squeamish, not worth going there).

“It’s a pain in the ass,” Blueprint’s Bart Schachter told PE Week. “It’s in Russia, so there’s no legislative or regulatory things you can do over there.” For now, you can reach the Blueprint team by dropping the “s” on the end of the URL and email extensions, as in www.blueprintventure.com.

Related, but quite different, from the string of Chinese clone sites that imitated Silicon Valley venture firms a couple of years ago.

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About the Author, Matt Marshall

Matt launched VentureBeat in September of 2006, with the realization that no one else was covering the entrepreneurial and tech innovation scene with the velocity or depth that he was. Prior to founding VentureBeat, he covered venture capital for the San Jose Mercury News from 2001 to 2006. In 2002, Matt was awarded "Journalist of the Year" by the Northern California Society of Professional Journalists. Prior to working at the Merc, he was a correspondent for the Wall Street Journal in Bonn, Germany from 1995 to 1998, and a writer for the Washington Post in 1994. Matt holds a PhD in Government and an MA in German and European Studies from Georgetown University. In addition to VentureBeat, Matt is also the Executive Producer of DEMO, the leading launchpad event for emerging technologies.