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Originally posted by NetRodent
This would seem a herculean task. Catagorizing hundreds of thousands of images by live people sounds very labor intensive and therefor expensive. As for how much we would pay, I suppose it really comes down to how much "bad content" it finds. Perhaps a bounty system as opposed to a monthly fee would be more appropriate.
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You sir, are correct. It is a large task to validate the images. We believe through our custom software and the massing of a database that will help to auto-validate files that have already been found (therefore never have to validate the same image twice), will give us an inital high curve, but then goes downward over time. (we have already been collecting data, so the process is already in place).
As far as cost, we are working on the pricing, and most likely tieing it to number of websites a sponsor wishes us to monitor. The fee structure will most likely be a fixed monthly cost. The inital scan is the most resource intensive, and then as the month goes on, subsequent maintenance on new images are done, reducing the work load. In the end, it all averages out.
The problem with a bounty approach, is it would put us in a position where it's almost like blackmail... in that if we detect a site that belongs to a sponsor, then go to them and say, we found a site, you need to pay us $500 to find out, then it does put us in an uncomfortable position.
We would rather work on behalf of the sponsor in a very proactive way.
The pricing is reflective upon size of the web to cast, but in the end, we believe it will be reasonable.
In the end, it comes down to how much of a problem is this and how much a sponsor can afford to give them some level of protection of legal liability, as well as moral/ethical peace of mind, that they are not supporting CP activity.
Lee and I are very passionate about stopping CP, and have created this service as a way of combatting it, but the resources involved, do cost money. As sniffy gets closer to launching, we will be able to present the pricing structure, we are sure that it will be fair and worthwhile for the sponsors.
At this point, as the technology is finishing up, we are looking to see the interests and the problems of the sponsor community as well as our idea of the solution.
-dj