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Originally Posted by Quentin
Realistically, lawsuits are rarely easy, and it's even more rare for them to be cheap to bring. Suing a major UGC site operator is probably beyond reach for a lot of producers/rights holders, simply due to the expense involved. Having said that, it's also not hopeless from a prospective plaintiff's perspective, and if you retain quality legal counsel that has a strong background in intellectual property law, it's an area that is ripe for litigation, for sure, under the right factual circumstances.
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Quick question and maybe why not start something here from a simple thread answer.
I see your signature, you are topbucks owner or similar right? You had been the path of the lawsuit against a big player, could you disclose the total figure of lawyer costs? I know it may be something ugly to post, but why i ask this, for the following reason:
Why just not someone LEGIT and big player, TopBucks could be one of them, Private right now could be other with his current lawsuit news, just make an agreement with the Free Speech Coalition in order just to give transparency to the process and open a: AntiIllegalTubesCoalition.com site where we all against tubes could donate money for lawsuits and even small producers could help bulilding major cases by submitting their stolen content links, etc.
Right now, to take such a project ahead, we would only need:
+ Build the site that accepts donations, piece of cake. I would do the coding FOR FREE, just will need someone to hook us the design, i suck doing design stuff. Maybe i think h3ads people would do such thing for free too, they are really LEGIT and i'm sure they would be glad of supporting such a LEGIT action.
+ A third party, non private company, to give transparency to the donation process, right now the Free Speech Coalition is the only one that comes into my mind.
+ A big player who would take some of his free time doing a couple of meetings to arrange the agreement with the FSC, and then they can split the work between him and the FSC to manage the lawyers feedback, still i think from there the FSC should take care of it, at the end, its what they stand for.
+ All the producers, studios, content rights owners feedback in order to help project lawyers constantly build a better huge class lawsuit : The site interface, which i insist i would be glad to do for free, could easily have a scheme for any right owner to upload the links were his stolen content is being streamed all the time.
+ All the rest LEGIT people willing to really take down this fuckers down to donate monthly money, lets say 100 bucks? how many os uf can do that? 1000? i think we can arrange that number of people, that would be 100.000 monthly .... Off course big players would put some more and that would be put on the site publicy, it would be a good marketing promotion for the programs supporting the projects, they could be arranged on the index page by the most money they donate and links to the program
+ I could even then help the project by developing some sort of crawler for recommended illegal tubes to chase illegal content using different patterns and maybe advice content owners which ALREADY are registered and sending their stolen content links to help them achieve this, like for example, each time they log in to put a link of a video of them stolen at youjizz.com, they could receive on the interface a warning message saying: "Project bot found this movies which believe could be copyrighted by you, do you want to add this links into the copyright infringement links for the lawyers to study them?"
Thoughts? I'm willing to code anything needed for this project, we now need a Big player with contact in order to arrange meetings with good lawyer firms and the FSC and a designer to build the site interface.
PinkVisual? Private? Anybody in for doing this? I'm in, sadly i'm not a big player myself, if not, i would start this right now without help. We need a big player behind the project with experience dealing with lawyer firms experienced on this subject, copyrights infringements, contact with FSC organizations or similar, etc.
Why don't we all get together from once and solve this, come one, 1000 guys donating 100 bucks, isn't that enough? We can go one tube at a time .... Big sponsors could put more money than other .... Lets do something people!