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Originally Posted by mikesouth
its been brought up many times but the consensus is that they are paying "upload monkeys" to do it as Independent Contractors, I believe many were in the Philippines and I have in fact had people claiming that MindGeek paid the to do exactly that over the years, the problem is no way to verify it, no checks, nothing with manwins name on it was ever produced, do I believe that it was true, yes, but contrary to popular belief I need a bit more than that
I do believe that this guys info was worth millions, literally, to Hush.
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Early on in tube history there was a screencap of one of the principals from the Brazzers group on a content pirate forum asking a user to either upload to their tubes or to contact him about it. It looked like good evidence to me at the time.
I'll never understand how Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube went nowhere, the court saw many emails between the founders of YT discussing uploading copyright infringing material, admitting it was wrong but it was important to their success that they take that risk because the infringing stuff was what was bringing in the traffic.
Compared to the rest of the world's copyright laws the DMCA is a bulwark against piracy - Canada's copyright law is an absolute joke as are those of European countries.