Originally Posted by Jake

I certainly hope you're not proposing any sort of regulation of tube sites, I know all of us pay site owners are required to comply with a number of overly burdensome regulations but I hope you don't expect tube site owners to dedicate any of their valuable resources to ensuring compliance with any type of regulations. How would you expect them to maintain any decent profit margins if they were required to operate under similar regulations that currently govern pay site operators. Next thing you know, you're going to suggest that they be responsible for proactively policing their "user uploaded" content and removing full-length videos of well-known models/producers submitted by "random users".

Wondering if anyone here has approached this issue from an "unfair competition" standpoint. Obviously producers/copyright holders have no recourse for copyright infringement but it would seem to me that an "unfair competition" suit would be pretty cut and dry.

Originally Posted by Jake

No, I don't! I see a banner for a completely unrelated site BELOW the video. Do you see any branding at all on the video iteslf? No URL watermark, no pre-roll branding, no post-roll branding, absolutely nothing giving any credit to the producer/site owner.

Upon further scrutiny I do now see a rather inconspicuous text link ABOVE the video. Convenient placement since surfers are accustomed to finding a link/banner (if there is any) BELOW the video, not ABOVE it. And as previously stated the banner "BELOW" the player is for a completely unrelated site.

When people in this business, as in the OP and myself don't easily recognize there is a link back to the site then would you really expect a surfer to find the link/banner?

Originally Posted by Jake

Hmmmm, so now site owners are putting out "teasers" without any branding on them? Really? Must be a new form of traffic generation I'm not familiar with! Perhaps the surfers are receiving a subliminal message that causes them to open a new window and type-in the URL received via the subliminal message.

Originally Posted by Jake

Yeah, it's another stolen video with the URL cropped out! Just another case of parasites capitalizing on the efforts of a hard-working site owner/content producer. But hey, it's all good right efukt? I mean I'm sure it was user submitted and you'd be happy to remove it once you receive a DMCA.

Originally Posted by nexcom28

She is super funny