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Originally Posted by marketsmart
ok, but then what you are saying is that "hey, we (topbucks) can upload our watermarked videos but the rest of you are on your own"?
dont get me wrong, i think this whole fingerprinting thing is a positive step, but if program owners are just going to worry about themselves then why continue on with an affiliate program when the deck is stacked against them from the start..
it seems to me that programs are going to be looking out for themselves in the future, which is fine, just tell your affiliates thats your intention...
let the affiliates make an informed decision as to whether or not it makes business sense to keep promoting programs that feel this way...
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No. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong on explaining this. So let's take a hypothetical example where Tube X is using the FSC APAP monetization program.
TopBucks webmaster Y decides they want to upload some promo video as a way to generate traffic to a TopBucks site. They create a user upload account at Tube X (however Tube X's policies work).
TB Webmaster Y goes to upload the a 3 minute clip of Orgy Sex Parties to Tube X, watermarked in a way that promotes a site that redirects to OrgySexParties with their affiliate ID.
The upload is cross referenced against a database of digital finger prints maintained & is flagged as a match. In the database, we (TopBucks/PinkVisual) has a set of rules on what our recommendations are for dealing with content of ours uploaded. We have a rule that says that if it's under 3 minutes it's okay & let it be.
So TB Webmaster Y gets his video uploaded to Tube X and it goes through as it did before (no replacement, no overlay, just exactly as it would have gone through).
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Now a side benefit of this technology to Pink Visual in this example is the fact that I can look at all the finger print matches that are say under 3 minutes and verify that they are actual webmasters promoting our sites. Through the FSC APAP system I have already found numerous instances of uploaders who take our content & watermark it to promote a paysite of theirs. We obviously would handle that situation differently.