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Originally Posted by JustBiz
Before this guy set up this site (and the bunch of others he owns), ironically most of the camshow private shows used to turn up on forums, where they could be downloaded from file sharing sites by anyone.
This guy seemed to corner the market by getting cam addicts to share their recorded shows with a privacy option, where only people they friended who were members of the site could see the videos. A whole lot more content got shared among the addicts who obviously share there.
The admin only put videos shared as non-private visible to general surfers. And he also posts those on other sites he owns. Most seem to use same script he pays for. He obviously does that so he gets more videos shared from users than he otherwise would.
Security was not great on the coding and some guys put bypasses to his private video sharing on the net. A bunch of other pirates downloaded all the private videos he had there for a couple years and put them available free on their own sites.
Think he finally must have got the security holes patched some time back. Obviously, all those videos his users think they are sharing privately will sometime end up public. Site owner will probably monetise that option when/if all others are exhausted.
They have tried many ways to take him down over the past 3 or 4 years. Last one I remembered was going after his DNS. Even that admin seemed to think whoever did it had got him. Site was down for about a week or something before he found an alternative solution.
Hopefully, you can take out his last sponsors. Then he'll move back to spyware and selling traffic to people who don't care where it comes from. Lastly, if you ever get that far, he'll squeeze the last pips out of all those hundreds of thousands of private show videos.
Considering the amount of companies/studios/individuals he's pissed off - many in a little wild west countries - I'm kinda surprised noone's paid him a personal visit yet.
Your real problem is google et al. Doesn't matter how many million DMCAs you file, search most any camgirl name and you will find this site or one of its sisters on page 1 in web or image search. That's where he needs crushing most.
But what do google say?
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The piracy issue with this site which is what some models are concerned with (others are more concerned with privacy and having their information leaked, and others are concerned with how this site bypasses geoblocking so their streams are now available in their tiny town they thought they had blocked in their preferences) the piracy issue with this network and especially with established models with a community behind them is once a fan of a model finds this site they never again need to purchase content from her or even use google to fish for it, they simply befriend each other on that piracy site and go back day after day to get access to everything the model does because no matter what paywall she sets up for a piece of content, at least 1 out of the bunch will purchase and upload. And they all know this so those who used to buy her stuff now pass because they know it's a matter of waiting 30 minutes and finding it there for free. You see what the problem is? Models are losing their communities, not because they are tired of the model, but because this piracy network makes it possible to continue to be a fan and a part of a community but away from the model who is at the center of it, and instead of giving back to her by purchasing her content and being part of her shows, and putting money in her pocket and the pocket of the camsite and of the affiliate who first introduced them to the camsite she works on, instead, they are not spending, keeping their money in their pockets, and clicking on the jerkfest of banners this lowlife is lining our videos with. All financed by Stripchat.
So when one of you sees one of your whales is dropping from your Chaturbate affiliate account stats... instead of raging against models "stealing affiliates" consider it is just as likely that this whale found this piracy network and has decided to stop spending since he can now get everything he wants for free.