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Originally Posted by Nathan
Robbie,
the part I do not understand is simple... first everyone complains about tubes, how evil they all are, how much they suck and so on... then people bring a solution, and the only thing yo ucan do is bash the solution.
The FSC and Allison clearly know that there is a TON more stuff than tubes out there that is causing piracy, but we have to start somewhere, no?
All the hate is sad... Hate me all you want, but TopBucks and the FSC? That's just ridiculous.
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Hate? I don't hate TopBucks or the FSC. You're trying to twist words here. The FSC just never was able to successfully do what it was supposed to do all those years ago. And I'm pointing out a simple fact...they don't have ANY experience in dealing with content theft online. They are going to have to spend a couple of years building that knowledge, and a couple of more years is something that a lot of people don't have if things continue on.
I certainly don't "hate" them. They've never done anything to me. Or for me. Or much of anything at all from what I have read.
As for Top Bucks...I've been an affiliate of theirs since they first opened that program. Why would I hate them? I'm wanting these programs like Top Bucks to do something that will allow me as an affiliate to once again make sales the way I used to with them.
Is this gonna do it? No. Does it have some promise? Maybe, but again...$450 for a handful of tubes is not gonna fly. Not when I can get all sites spidered and dmca'ed for far, far less.
For instance, I COULD afford to go to a bar and pay $100 for a beer. But that don't mean I should.
And I don't hate you either. I don't even know you. Hell, I've never even HEARD of you before and I've been doing this a long time and had relationships with just about every adult company out there. Best I can tell you were once a grunt worker or something with TMM? And then you suddenly got rich and bought Mansef in a bad worldwide economy. Okay, I'll suspend my disbelief.
I'm just pointing out that IF people want to be serious about piracy...then just deciding to hand it all over to the FSC isn't the best idea. There are effective people out here right now and it seems dumb to me to ignore them and try to convince everyone to jump on with a legal group that was supposed to defend our industry in legal decisions before courts.
I do hope that this helps somewhat. But being in the trenches the last couple of years while you were...uh, doing whatever it was you were doing and Top Bucks was trying to figure out what to do and the FSC was doing...uh, whatever it is they were doing: I just don't see this having any real impact.
But again, I sure hope it does have some impact other than just putting more money over to FSC and then achieving negligible results.