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Originally Posted by Atticus
You're wrong.
Manwin has every intention of making this work and it's a brilliant move on their part. Part of the DMCA law states that to comply a tube has to take advantage of available tech. If not they can be sued for infringement. Since Manwin operates the biggest tubes out there they are in the lead position. They already have the traffic and by pushing this new technology forward into the adult space they are giving copyright holders legal rights to go after tubes that do not take advantage of available technology. If every tube has to comply then they will remain the biggest traffic holders in the industry. With this move, and TB and the FSC's help, they are crushing the competition.
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Atticus, I see your point, and certainly hope it works like you expect it to work. However, I think there also exists a real possibility that overseas Tubes will also flourish as a result since surfers will not appreciate having a bait and switch tactic used. While I hope I am wrong, to me the success of tubes to this point revolves around the following:
- Volumes of Surfers attracted to enormous quantities of free porn
- Provide that enormous amount of videos, legal or otherwise, to create an almost viral traffic explosion
- Sell ad spots for revenue sources
To me, if you disrupt the surfer enjoyment, you risk disrupting the rest. And by using a bait and switch technique, I just can't see surfers staying around.
One big thing we keep reading around here is that "legal" tubes using sponsor trailers cannot compete with the big tubes because of the full length videos offered. Whether that is a valid observation or not, I do not know. But I seriously doubt that if a tube company sees their traffic drop as a result of this, and subsequently the value of their advertising marketplace, that they'll sit idly by and not notice the other competitive tubes cutting into their viewership. Thus, the "legal" tubes under this plan STILL need full length videos, legal or otherwise.
For this reason, I don't think you can claim to be both "legal" and still allow user uploaded material and hide behind a DMCA. I just don't see a grey area here. You're either legal, or your not, regardless of having a DMCA policy in place, as that's simply flawed.
This is all just personal opinion of course. But it all strikes me as a conflict of interest to take money to protect content users from yourself, then continue to post unauthorized material of those who refuse to pay.