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Originally Posted by StarkReality
Well, I really think for a billing company it's asked a bit too much to screen complete sites of clients for copyright violations and contact possible content owners to ask if a video is licensed or not.
It's nice to see Verotel do it, but I don't think it's something you can expect. CCBill came here, explained their very fair policy on this and will shutdown the site as soon as multiple DCMA notices arrive. It may be obvious that mentioned content is stolen, but legal reality and common sense are often different, so they want to back up any actions against a client with a DCMA from the content owner, which is totally understandable in my book.
I'm one of the first to scream "shut them down" whenever a torrent, tube, lowlife thread pops up, but CCBill is handling this in a very professional and reasonable way.
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If a payment processor, when setting up billing processing, is to check a site for illegal content, obscene content like scat, then it can easily see if the the content the site is offering videos with other sites watermarks. Then an email to the the two sites seems to be in order. Seems to me this is 5 to 10 minutes work. Not a lot to do if you're attitude towards stopping content theft is proactive.
How many "multiple DMCA notices" need to arrive before billing is pulled?
Content theft needs to be stamped on hard, sites that steal content are very likely to be involved in other activities we do not condone or want. It would appear to me that a site stealing content or allowing anyone to upload content is not a good bet.