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Originally Posted by Sam - Mr. Skin
I've been in New York for Affiliate Summit and just finally have had time to address this...
This will be my one reply to this thread. I'll provide the facts and our perspective on the matter and the fine people of GFY can make their own decisions. I think our 17 years in business and stellar reputation with affiliates speaks for itself. Do some digging in the GFY archives and see what you find.
We were implicated in a copyright infringement claim due to the OP using glamour photography of celebs to promote MrSkin.com. To clarify, it wasn’t a DMCA notice, but a straight cease and desist letter from the photographer’s lawyer
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More lies from Mrshitskin scumbags.
You told me it was a DMCA report. Here's a screenshot. (and after numerous requests you never showed me a copy of it.
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Originally Posted by Sam - Mr. Skin
On his site, as you can see in the screenshot below, the OP was (and still is) insinuating that we had scanned photographs on our site which we don't. We only post screencaps and clips from film and television.
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I didn't insinuate anything. Any webmaster promoting celebrity niche is using celebrity photos from various sources from the internet. Everyone knows this. You didn't have problems with it for years while i was sending traffic your way. And you don't have problems with obviously dubious content on high traffic websites and tubes when you spam them to promote you. I already posted a photo of you soliciting it.
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We only post screencaps and clips from film and television. He is also using our trademark on these pages, giving the impression that we own the website. Both of these actions clearly violate our terms.
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So you are "borrowing" someone else's work/content to promote your website. How is it any different from what i did? Double standard hypocrites.
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He is also using our trademark on these pages, giving the impression that we own the website. Both of these actions clearly violate our terms.
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Of course i was using your "trademarks" to promote YOUR program EXCLUSIVELY. That's the whole point, to make a gallery look similar to the paysite that you promote. What planet are you from?
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Once we dug into his account we also found out that he was sending traffic from domains which contained our trademark which is another blatant violation of our terms.
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Again, this only became a problem when i stopped sending you traffic. You didn't give a shit about this for years. And the domains had exclusively MrSkn galleries, which promote only your website. Terminating an account because of that is stupid. You could have just asked to transfer the domain (which we did same day after your requested it).
You aslo gave false hope (hinted) that transferring the domains to you would solve account lock problem. And after i promtly pushed the domains same day you just left me standing with my dick in my hand:
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Originally Posted by Sam - Mr. Skin
The OP did transfer the domains containing our trademark, obviously hoping to get his account unbanned as has been mentioned in this thread. However, he has failed to remove all infringing content, including on the specific page in question.
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How could I remove all content? I have hundreds of galleries built over the years. I removed the one with the name mentioned. I couldn't remove the other one because i didn't know what it was. I asked you numerous times to send me the copy of DMCA report so that i would know the URL and which content exactly was in violation. Every request got conveniently ignored by you. You weren;t interested in fixing anything, just wanted a reason to can the account and keep the rebills.
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he's blatantly disregarded our terms, abused our trademark for his profit
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I used your promo tools to exclusively promote YOUR FUCKING SITE, FOR YOUR PROFIT.
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and since being contacted and banned has done basically nothing to truly rectify the problem.
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I removed the only instance of the mentioned celeb name i was able to find the moment i received your first email. You never even mentioned an infringing URL until in this thread. I asked for a copy of DMCA to know better what to look for, so that i could remove it. I cooperated fully and pushed the domains to you the same day. I promty did EVERYTHING to rectify the problem. You just werent interested in rectifying it.
Hopefully people make a good note on your "policies" and how you are able to terminate an account and keep all the money with any made up reason. Nice Terms & Conditions you have to fully protect yourself in any situation and fuck over any affiliate at a drop of a hat.
God damn scumbags
