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Originally Posted by stickyfingerz
sounds pretty dead on to me there.  |
His comparison is off.
If Tube8 offered anyone here a nice big paid advertising deal, would they turn it down? Considering most people here make next to nothing what do you think the answer to that question would be (99% would take it).
Most people here don't like Tube8 because what they are doing " is wrong". They disagree with it. But most of them aren't the ones being ripped off by Tube8 as most of the people here don't produce content or own membership sites and it isn't THEIR content that is being blasted all over Tube 8 for free.
Most of the people here also don't several clients that they make millions off of, and these same clients are also being ripped off by Tube8.
Still sound dead on ?
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Originally Posted by epitome
On the flip side, why would anybody bitch about a for-profit business going after profits? This tends to be an industry where people only take a moral stance when they're not the one making the money.
I'd be curious how many of the people that bitched would turn down a premium pre-paid ad spot from Tube 8. I bet they wouldn't and would justify it to themselves by saying "eh, the surfers already know about this site, I'm not pointing them to anything they don't already know about, so I'll take the money."
Bye!
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Playboy Inc accepted money to skin GFY from a company that profits off of playboy's own content. Playboy Inc accepted money to promote a company that steals from several of Playboy Inc's own customers. Customers who have spent millions of dollars with them over the years. The payment accepted from Traffic Junky is likely about 2% of what GFY makes a year.
Would any Joe Blow here who thinks content theft is bad accept the payment, hell yeah they would. They don't make much money if any and that payment might be more than they make in a year. The tube site is not stealing from them, and they wouldn't be pissing on their other customers who the tube site is stealing from. Are these people hypocritical, sure, but that doesn't make what Playboy Inc did ok.
Playboy Inc can not be compared to Joe Blow poster here.
Should a business be faulted for wanting to make money? hell no. But that business should think their actions through from a financial standpoint if nothing else. If the business has no business ethics and doesn't practice good business then that is their choice but they should think their actions though a little better. It's one thing to promote and do business with a company that is stealing from you, but when you promote the company that is also stealing from your customers then that is just bad business. All of that just for about 2% of your anual income. It only takes losing 1 or 2 of your LOYAL customers, who get pissed by your greedy actions to COST your more than you made off of the skin.
So does it make sense to me that they did, hell no, but I am not greedy and try to look at the big picture and I practice good business. I wouldn't piss on my LOYAL customers who represent 98% of my income.
Does it make a little better sense now ?