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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Will do do glass house.
Agreed on both accounts.
As I said, it comes to where one prefers to 'draw the line'. If they do business with the thieving affiliate program/tube/ad network... that's ok. If they steal their music, videos, porn, software, that's appears to be ok as well. But if someone is IN YOUR FACE stealing.. oh, well that's bad. But it's ok otherwise it seems.
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Post proof or be banned.
For the record...
I don't like piracy.
I don't know if manwin stole content because our company didn't have that experience. When we addressed our content being there, they complied with takedowns fast and worked with us to correct the issue. In short, they were professional about it and did not act shady at all. I understand the grey area of "user submitted" and while they took advantage of the DMCA loophole to great success, it doesn't mean they were stealing. Just because people say they stole doesn't mean that they stole. Huge grey area because of the nature of the beast, I agree, but we had to make our judgement about working with them based on what we knew first hand and not based on hearsay.
People also called Youtube on the same greyness btw but I guess mainstream learned how to deal with that and rein in the glaring copyright issues not unlike Manwin did as well.
But if you can find one instance that is actually black and white and not grey area where I supported a thief, like gave them advice on how to be a better scammer, then please feel free to point it out.