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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
Thank you for the thorough response, Profits. Much appreciated. I see opportunity in this passage:
"The good news is most file sharing sites and image hosts will pull the content, even if you aren't the copyright holder. Just send them a generic e-mail with the link to the content on their server and they will pull it, period, no questions asked. They are way too understaffed to investigate every claim, so they just pull them all..."
I wonder if there's a way to semi-automate this process? Theres a service called removemycontent or something like that. I wonder if they use semi-automated systems or just cover "the usual suspects" of forums, tubes, and link dump sites.
Someone posted earlier that it's still pretty much an open legal question if LINKING to infringing materials is a form of infringment. I guess no content producer or industry group wants to bother with the time or the resource to "make new law" by bringing this question to court through a test case?
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In my opinion the only content producers that you could bank on bringing it to court are some of the gay content providers, like Titan Media. They have been the only program that I have seen that have actively sued to protect their copyrights. I have seen links to different court opinions where linking to copyrighted material has been argued as legal and illegal, but I doubt you could count on most programs to try and fight it in court due to the costs and the limited recourse for collecting if you win.
Removeyourcontent.com is the service you were talking about, and they are awesome. I'm not privy to what they are doing to pull links, but I wouldn't be surprised if they have figured out some automated solution. The thing is it doesn't benefit them to try and DMCA all links, just the links for the people that hire them. I used to chat with the owner, Eric, before he started his service, since we both used to report links to content we were promoting, the thought being if we were trying to make money off it it benefited us for it not to be readily available free.
A few months ago, I believe some of the people promoting tranny content were ganging up and reporting all links to tranny content they could find (I think they were all from a tranny webmaster forum I can't mention here). I remember some big forums like planetsuzy had hundreds of pages of links to tranny content deleted from the file sharing sites, and some of the posters were so pissed they gave up and quit posting. For whatever reason the people reporting the links quit, but it just goes to show something could be done if anyone cared enough to put in the time...