The guys at Hush just got handed a HUGE present. whether the reader comes forward or not this time they named names....The reader has expressed to me that he will help Hush (and anyone else) if done through me.
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MindGeek Employee Speaks – Reader Mail
By MikeSouth
February 5th, 2016
I have written extensively about this but this time I think the email speaks for itself, None of what you will read here is new, but this is the first time that a Manwin/MindGeek Employee has come forward on the record…read on….This info will be very valuable for HushHush.
I have worked for Mindgeek for many years.
I knew the company had been breaking DMCA laws since my first day on the job as a “redacted job title”. My role quickly evolved into screening videos like the rest of the Department did and still does.
Every single video posted on any Mindgeek tubesite is screened by a person from start to finish and the employee who doesn’t actually view the whole thing can get in trouble! So… trust me when I say they are 100% aware of every-single-video that goes up on their site… I used to work on another website that was a DMCA takedowns magnet, so I feel like I know a thing or two about the DMCA and how a website can claim safe harbor. Not only that, but they also have a compliance department whose job is to screen all the tubesites in hopes that they find little slip-ups (by Slip-ups I mean.. human error is still a factor here, a “gatekeeper” might let a bad video through once in a while) before anyone else in order to avoid fines.
I know that Mindgeek wants people to believe they are protected under Safe Harbor but they have a whole department of around 30 employees that pretty much directly denies them of safe harbor AND a separate compliance department to make sure they don’t mess up. The reason for this is that they make a LOT of money through VISA but Visa has very strict rules on the kind of content they will allow to be associated with! They don’t mind copyright infringing material BUT they do mind other common illegal content such as child porn etc .. I don’t think I need to tell you what I mean by “common illegal content”.
Why not just make money off of ads and let any type of content through and let the community flag the bad stuff and actually be stress free since all you have to do is comply with DMCA and take videos down as the requests come and that’s it? Well, as it turns out, Pornhub makes over 175,000$ a month off of their deal with Visa but can get fined up to 200,000$ for every non-compliant video by Visa, which has happened in the past. And that is how “Gatekeepers” or something like that started being a thing…Mindgeek can be creative with how they hide the fact that people screen the videos but make no mistake, there is a full department of people whose full time jobs are to review AND queue the videos for release onto the front page.
But you know what other source of money is quite important? Well.. their videos…obviously haha.
I have been personally instructed, along with most employees of the tubes department, to let copyright infringing material hit front page on the site because “By the time it gets taken down, we’ve made the money” With the millions of views they get on videos every day, every video counts right? It could be the difference between making an extra few thousand dollars in a day, you know… Gotta keep the money coming in! Somebody has to come up with the money so Feras and his friends can keep buying those Porsches and Ferraris hahaha.
At the end of the day, they need to keep the copyright infringing content’s generated revenue until takedown + the Visa money because actually following the law and only living off of millions made from infringing content’s generated revenue until taken is not enough �� , Oh and I don’t think I need to specify that this applies to all their websites.. so… Millions multiplied by Youporn/Redtube…I’d mention all the other sites of the network but we all know those other tubesites they own don’t generate anywhere near as much as those big 3 do.
I don’t know how helpful my email might be but since I read on your blog that Mindgeek is currently being sued by HushHush… I assume that Mindgeek is claiming that they are in compliance with the DMCA and saying that they aren’t aware of the illegal material on their site and do their best to take it all down upon requested haha…What a joke
Here’s the question HushHush should be asking: Feras, you mean to tell me that you have two separate departments with two completely different sets of people who are smart enough to catch most of the (I’d say 99.99% but who is gonna pull out that stat anyway?) illegal sex content such as Snuff and Children but not smart enough to recognize copyrighted content? That’s odd. You don’t recognize content your own company makes with actors your own company employs?