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Originally Posted by Anna_Miller
Now at least on the webmaster side, we rarely have to send anymore cesist and desist letters. It is nice to be able to spend that time back on our site.
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I understand your point, but 2257 is not going to help lighten your load. The reason is that DOJ is not actively checking websites.. and even if they were, there are over 2M adult domains running and they aren't looking to find 2257 docs from everyone.
You, unfortunately, have the burden under DMCA to police the use of your content.
So that means when u find your contact, you do need to fire off a DMCA letter to the website owner. If they don't take it down in 24-48 hours, then you DMCA to the webhost who are much more receptive to these things, especially when u can show that you tried to contact the website owner.
2257 is not a tool to use for copyright infringement as you and others have expressed. It is has some issues and problems with the wording of the law (especially the more recent changes) that are very problematic for adult websites.
There are companies out there that are looking to help with this problem, through litigation, where once you have identified the site and the site has not acted on your DMCA notice, then u have to sue.
You should have all of your images copyrighted. You can do this once a month by burning them all to disc and filing for copyright. I think its like $30 or something, so its not too hard to do on a continual basis.
Filing for copyright gives you a strong leg to stand on in court over copyright infringements.
In other cases like Vivid, they are bringing up 2257 to add to their list of charges, because if someone has stolen content, they clearly don't have 2257 docs.
Fight the sharing is caring!