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Originally Posted by Robbie
Allison, something I'm kinda wondering about...
I DO protect my stuff. Been doing it for a while. Haven't had even one of my high res/high quality streams ripped and put up on a pirate site. That's after two years (and dozens of "experts" on GFY telling my it wouldn't work and it would be hacked and blah-blah).
But the ongoing problem still concerns my older stuff that's out there. The stuff I put out on .wmv in the first place and that I foolishly released on DVD. I have to keep removeyourcontent searching for that all the time because it comes up over and over and over.
How does "fingerprinting" help you in that way? For instance...Pink Visual already has a huge DVD catalog out there. And tons of stuff that has been pirated, I'd dare say your entire catalog.
I'm assuming that the "fingerprinting" will only have effect on the files that you NOW have had processed (if someone rips one and uploads the "Fingerprinted" one). But everything up until now is still out there (your members areas, your DVD rips, etc.)
Also, it would seem to me that as long as you're still releasing hard copy DVD's and not taking measures to keep your content in the members area on the paysites...then any of the thousands of bit torrent, rapidshare, megaupload, fileshare, and tubes that don't play by the rules are still going to be pirating you and devaluing your content?
What's your specific strategy for Top Bucks to combat those aspects (which are even more damaging than even Pornhub)?
As a long time affiliate of Top Bucks I'd kinda like to know if there is a chance that I can start converting the sites again.
By the way...does Kevin still own Top Bucks? Last I heard his name was a couple of years ago when he was going to meet some friends of mine down in South America. Just curious if it's still his company and how he's doing. Haven't seen him in person since 2002.
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Hi Robbie,
Whether it's DVD content, WMV content or any other form that was previously release the same exact benefits exist.
So we took our entire library on our server side (other companies could ship drives or DVD's if they wanted to I believe) & had a finger print created on the fly. The finger print is not stored in the video or DVD file, it's a separate file stored in Vobile's database.
We got all our finger printing around March of 2010 and it took just a few days. We also now automatically add a finger print every time we update our sites with new content.
So now let's say a scenario where a DVD I released in 2006 gets ripped & uploaded to one of the tubes in the APAP program, it will be flagged as a match & completely removed immediately before any views or if I'm participating in the monetization, it will be flagged & I would have set some rule to replace it with a promo clip & maybe an overlay ad.
I'm assuming you either have copies of the DVD's you release or have the WMV files on hand. That's all you need to have a finger print created of your content. It's just a file that maps the visual and audio components of your video that is not stored in the video or DVD file at all.
You mentioned RemoveYourContent & their services and the answer to that is you would probably still want to use them for other sites who are not participating in the APAP system if you are having issues with infringement elsewhere.
~Alli