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Originally Posted by TheMaster
To make it very clear where I stand: as an affiliate who follows the rules (maybe I'm stupid for doing this), I would love nothing more for sponsors to clean up the abuse within & have the big fights.
But going after little people, I've no interest in that, because it won't help my conversions, it seems unfair when the big guys stay safe, and it'll just result in horror stories about the industry.
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I understand what you're saying...but you also have to understand that there ARE millions and millions of people stealing out there. Just go to pornbb dot org and feast your eyes. And that is just ONE surfer forum chock full of entire site rips done by those "innocent" people that you may think are being "targeted".
Look, I've been working this thing since piracy first REALLY took off a couple of years ago. At first I didn't understand what was happening. Hell, I thought it was the tubes and torrent sites themselves stealing. And then I started googling....and started finding all these links to different surfer forums. And my whole world changed.
I then realized what was really happening. And I took steps to protect my stuff. But boy, that first 40 or 50 scenes we had that were on .wmv in our website in the beginning? It's all that removeyourcontent can do to TRY and keep that down to a minimum.
I've been successful in keeping Claudia-Marie from being destroyed by piracy. But other paysites that either don't know what to do or thought in the beginning that they could "work" the tubes and torrents and file share sites? I can't make a sale on them to save my soul.
So yeah, I would actually LOVE it if Fox News reported that people stealing content were getting nailed. The more that everybody out there knows what can happen to them for stealing, the sooner the stealing will stop.
And again...no 16 year old boys are going to steal mommies credit card to join a site to steal content. They don't need to. They can just watch it on pornhub for free.
Nope, the people we are going after are the ones uploading it. They are the culprits, plain and simple. Watching it on a tube isn't a crime.
Now if you download physically from a torrent? Now you fucked up. People have been "trained" to think all porn is free for the last two years.
Well now they are going to be trained that IF you steal porn, it's your ass. And you should be applauding that.
EDIT: And to address the subject of financially "ruining" some poor soccer mom...No, it doesn't work that way. As I said earlier, we keep the settlement price down to just below what it would cost to get a lawyer and fight it. It's not a situation that will destroy somebody financially. But it will hurt their wallet enough to make a difference and deter them next time.