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Originally Posted by vano
1. I have THOUSANDS of galleries from the TGP days. If they don't even tell me the URL, I can't know where the problem is. When someone sends you a DMCA report, one of the requirements is to describe which work is in violation and where it is located. Skin never showed me the complaint (i wonder if it even exists).
2. Skin uses content they dont own. What does that make them?
At least I have contact info for dmca reports on my websites to quickly remove content if someone complains, and i don't pocket other people's money because i'm a greedy asshole.
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I won't comment on what they have or have not given you and just take your word that you didn't know what content they were speaking of. That said, They did provide a URL in their reply and, well, you still have illegal content on there as of my typing this.
The difference between what you are doing and what they are doing is simple. It is called Fair Use. You see you are taking content you do not own in order to make money. You haven't changed it in any way or done anything that would alter it from it original format (other than maybe size and compression ratio etc.). Mr. Skin provide commentary and reviews about the movies, the scenes, and the people in them. When they do this it creates a fair use situation. Imagine it like this: If you have TV show like
At the Movies where you review movies and play clips from them. You are allowed to show those clips because you are also providing a review of the movie, hence, fair use. If you just took those clips and uploaded them to YouTube or some site you likely would be hit with a complaint.
If Mr. Skin were really breaking the law do you not think a big, powerful movie studio would have hammered them into the ground by now? It s a big site, that has even been mentioned in some movies and the owner goes on major radio shows like Howard Stern to promote it. If they were breaking the law they would have had their asses handed to them a long time ago.
The odds are they hadn't really paid much attention to you as an affiliate until you had lawyers contacting them about your sites. Had that not happened I have a feeling your account would still be open and everything would be fine.
This is the game you play when you decide to make money using stolen content. At some point that money might go away.