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Originally posted by XYCash
The software sounds interesting, particularly the part about searching out stolen images, but since the main point is to stop people from profiting off of CP in what you called a noble pursuit, why not offer it at cost to webmasters? Maybe I sound a bit cynical, but at this point too many people make too much money off the negative side of porn. It's become a billion dollar industry all to itself.
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We are targetting sponsors as the people who would pay for this service. The webmaster doesn't gain anything about being "certified" to not have CP, since most are clean anyways, and if there was CP, they were the ones that put it on there.
As someone wrote before, that couldn't some tgp scripters do the same as we are proposing? yes, they could, but no one has done it, and the answer is most likely, not worth their time. it is a huge undertaking as many have commented on, but we feel we want to tackle the mt. everest of images, so it is with our folly that we chase the wind mills, but.. being rational and logical people, we do feel it is possible to do our task, but such a task is expensive and has a cost.
if there was grant money from the governement, then such a service could be for free, much like how gov't gives money to the arts endowment so we can see exhibits of the cross in urine.
not sure what you mean by people making billions off of porn and being negative. consumers want to see pictures, webmasters provide it to them and make money. sponsors provide affiliate dollars, and make money. our service is targetted towards the sponsors, who wish to look after their legal and moral issues of supporting potential CP. the stigma of negativity comes with the CP related stuff that dirties up the image of the adult industry.
So for sponsors, they could decide that spending X amount of dollars to ensure non-CP compliance will get them Y. There is no Y, you can't put a value on it...all a sponsor can choose to decide with their dollar, is to say they feel that spending X will go towards a bigger good that is good for everyone from A to Z.
For those that just hate the idea of what sniffy is doing, you could rally up and protest with your sponsors and boycott them should they elect to use the service. One spin could be that trying to boycott a sponsor because of sniffy, means support for CP, but let's not go there.
Our capital marketplace will determine if sniffy is to be a successful venture. Your opinions certainly do matter, and you have ability to support or boycott your sponsor should they elect to use sniffy. This kind of thing goes on everyday, so it's no different in internet-space.
we do stand by our integrity and purpose, and we look to the sponsors to support the efforts, otherwise, there is no sniffy.
if that happens, then, we will always say that we tried, but the problem wasn't worthing paying to solve.
-dj