Tube site question... legality and ethics
Maybe I'm missing something here, but wanted to get some feedback
I got hit up by someone yesterday from a different board asking to trade traffic with my tube site (btw, which is all 30sec to 2 min videos provided by a sponsor). I looked on his site and it has a lot of 15+ minute videos.
I told him no way, but what is the point of having 15-30 minute long videos on his site and he told me the script he bought, scrapes a number of larger tube sites and he is merely hot linking to their videos.
Yes, I know this is not something new, but from a legal stand point could he get busted for having stolen content play on his site even though he is hot linking? Seems to me he could...
Also, what about the original tube site hosting the content, I'm sure they would get pissed about this guy hot linking to his videos, but he said he has been doing it for months and no one has said a word.
Is this the new trend? I found two scripts that out of the box offer this service (one is priced around $400 too) that does this.
From my perspective, Im not about giving away porn for free yet trying to make a living off sign ups, but when companies are pushing software like this that most people can easily afford, it now takes our current tube problem and makes it ten time worse.
With that, anyone know what can be done about hot linking my videos? I host a lot of them on my own server and fuck if im going to pay for some free loader to play them on his site with his affiliate links
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