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Old 11-11-2011, 04:32 PM  
baryl
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Originally Posted by freenetbat View Post
Yes we are affiliates with some of the sites (the ones we could join up with) this way we figured its not really copyright abuse if you are linking direct to their site and referencing who owns the copyright material.

If any of the site owners contact us we will remove the posts if that is what they want. Otherwise they are getting free advertising cause its not like we are doing a dump of their whole site/collection
Well you figured wrong. I assure you that posting stolen content is a violation of the sponsor's terms and at the minimum you won't get paid.
Sponsors provide particular promo materials for a reason and it's up to them, the owners of the content, to decide how they want to advertise it.
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