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Paully · 01-26-2014, 10:10 PM

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Originally Posted by adultmobile

The DMCAs shuld be send to the site which hosts the content, but of course it makes sense to send a copy also to whoever advertises there (so they have evidence you're right holder and this is not trolling).

They replied: the infringing content it is not hosted in sites under bongacams control. They have no FTP access to the server where it is the stolen content or the banner, they can't delete the content or the banner.

All BongaCams can do it is to check what affiliate ID is linked to the banner, and disable it, so the affiliate is not paid. Done this (they do NOT pay this affiliate), BongaCams no more support financially the affiliate, who is advertising on the site with infringing content - either it was the site itself being the affiliate, or someone else via advertising networks or other deals.

Still even after BongaCams disable the affiliate account and no more pay for it, the BongaCams banners will continue to display in the site with infringing content, until the affiliate does not remove such a banner (this can take time depending how fast it is this guy to figure out he is not getting paid).

I run cam sites and I disabled affiliate accounts as above at times, when I get complaints like that for banners in torrent/file locker or for spam (emails, craigslist and whatever evil thing blackat affiliates do daily). However, someone let me note after I disabled the affiliate id, that even if I am not paying the affiliate, after I disabled his account, still the link to the cam site opens the cam site. No matter if I can not remove the banner or link being it hosted elsewhere, I should not accept the traffic coming at all.

So in practice, as a cam site if I disable the affiliate accounts coming from illegal or spammy sources, but still the site opens, I get even more advantage from the "illegal" link, than if I had kept paying the affiliate. Because I still get the traffic while I do not even pay anything to the affiliate. So to make everyone 100% happy and be 100% clean, when an affiliate ID it is closed for illegal activity, the traffic coming from it should be redirected to google (or better, bing) or anyway not opening the cam site permitting signup of users.

Many DMCA's were sent to the site. I was talking about Bongacams and their policy regarding infringement. Bongacams was notified multiple times. I think your approach Adultmobile should be commended. Bongacams can eat a bag of dicks though.

Bottom line is we can't sit back and allow these guys to monetize theft. We can all blame the tubes for stealing content but they would have a hard time paying that bandwidth bill if shady cam and traffic companies weren't paying them to steal.