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Few questions after reading all of this tech talk.
If your program is making copies of content, even if said content will be deleted after review, and your company is a profit venture, are you not then profiting off of said content and thus infringing on ones copyright of said content?
Will it stop at the free areas or will it also sniff inside of a pay area? You did mention AVS etc.
You are making a road map of each webmasters entire network of sites. Listing which ones should be reviewed, had flags, etc. You are also dealing with CP and the now underfire adult internet, specially with the upgraded 2257 rules. What is to stop the Government from subpoenaing your database and thus putting many of us in even more risk? We are in an age of proactive politics, i.e. attack before attacked, porn causes cp, etc. So why would they not just love to get their hands on this database, the FBI will know about it afterall?
Privacy laws will be violated unless each sponsor sends out a hardcopy letter to each affiliate informing them of the information that would be, could be, or may be shared with your company etc. There has been a whole slew of new privacy data sharing laws that went into effect, you are aware of them I presume, well are you?
Sniffy visits affiliate site A. Affiliate site A has blocked the hell out of sniffy. Sniffy then reports to sponsor that they could not sniff such site. Sponsor terms affiliate because sniffy could not sniff site A, affiliate looses all traffic income from sponsor. Since sponsor is busy and does not have time to check the hundred or possibly thousands of possible flags that sniffy reports. Maybe sponsor or sniffy have tired and or overworked employees, or maybe sponsor does not wish to hire more people to check flags. Well then did sniffy just cause affiliate finacal harm because affiliate was protecting bandwidth?
Sniffy hits a TGP, TGP has trade script. Sniffy is checking every single link. Gets TGP banned from other trades because of bots. Sniffy just cost TGP money did it not?
Sniffy hits another TGP. TGP has banners for sponsor. Submitter fucked with TGP and altered an image or something. Will TGP get flagged? Then if so, say the reviewer goes to TGP but its been a few days. The images or text is no longer there since it was rotated out or fixed. Does sniffy report to the sponsor but say image and or text has been removed since crawl?
Affiliate runs toplist. Pain in the ass webmasters change text on toplist to something not allowed on wed.. Affiliate updates toplist and checks for rule violations every tuesday. Sniffy visits toplist on thur. it gets reviewed on friday. Sponsor is sent a violation letter, and affiliate is screwed even though affiliate would have removed it on tuesday. How does sniffy handle such instances?
Webmaster has some enemies. Enemies hack webmasters site and place some not so kosher content and keywords on webmasters server. Webmaster is now in heap of trouble thanks to sniffy, webmaster looses all sponsors, and now has no income. Latter prooves it was a hack after long legal battle etc. Would not sniffy be open to a civil suit?
Damn could go on and on.. Lets end there.
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