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Originally Posted by SpicyM
I suggest you reread my post. If a site owner doesn't want to be responsible, they should verify each user and name the responsible person who uploaded the content. And I could't care less about social networks, fuck them. Being responsible for the content that YOU decided can be freely added to YOUR own website by users (again - your decision) is 100% fair.
Because there is no law that would force them to do that - that's what I'm talking about. Xhamster started to verify their users about 10 months ago and suddenly there is no pirated content uploaded since then. All those pirated videos you see are uploads prior to this change. All those thieving assholes pissed their pants and moved elsewhere because no thief/criminal will provide his ID.
PH is one of the most popular websites in the world and they are able to verify uploads, so don't tell me that others are not able to do that. Social networks earn billions each year, they have all the resources to do this. They just fear a massive loss of users - those shitbags know that a user breaking the law on their servers is still a user.
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Consider your suggestion taken, your post re-read, and my conclusions the same and unchanged. I understood the first time around what you were conveying and I reach the same verdicts.
The beauty of democracy is that your opinion is not the only one that matters. So while you may feel like you "couldn't care less about social media", many people do. Millions, upon millions, and billions, even.
Yes, Pornhub is one of the most popular sites on the internet. And to help your argument along, XVideos is currently more popular than that even. But you're talking about numbers in terms of traffic. Actual users created, hours logged in, actively using the site is a much different monster that needs wrestling with. And in essence, social media sites do attempt to do this through confirmation links in emails and 2-factor authentication with phone numbers, AI to find re-uploaded photos and media. Social media sites do also regularly ban and suspend accounts that may very likely be fake.
Yes, some of those sites do make billions of dollars, and yes, they could theoretically go to the same lengths as porn sites to do this. Key words would definitely only be; "some of those websites make billions" because many, many, more, do not.
But what you are suggesting is absolutely absurd. My grandmother, for example, she probably has a dozen or so Facebook accounts, because she's not well adjusted with technology, forgets her information, and so on. So a senile grandmother needs to upload I.D. And Social security number, answer identifying information, and yadda yadda, to post some pictures of her grandkids? Pretending she even makes it that far. And then the risk of that information being leaked in a database?
I know this is not a unique case. But outside of that even, in countries all around the world where accessing certain websites under cruel regimes is illegal but helps connect to like minded individuals. Or, while Facebook may make billions, what about the new sole proprietorship that just sunk all of their capital and savings into a new business venture, a website or platform that allows for innocent user uploads. This is not even to mention the inherit privacy issues you'd get into by doing such a thing. (Could write a Biblical sized argument on that one alone). These are not 1 in a million examples, or needles in haystacks, they are frequently occurring. And well... The far reaching repercussions of what you are trying to base your argument on just because you're a little upset someone pirated your booty a few times, that would be just grossly ridiculous and selfish.
I have opinions also. And you may even be surprised to learn that they are not too far removed from your own. But in the grand scheme of things, the way the world works and operates, the good and the bad, it does require that big picture thinking. Not just your own, or even 'our' adult business being compromised.
The world does not revolve around you. And for better or worse, the law is in place for a reason, and it is important. So do we just let things continue the way they are or have been? No. I think there are ways to combat the very real problems you mentioned. But I also know that it requires more thought than "those porn sites did that and it helped a little bit, albeit not entirely so let's apply that same thinking to the rest of the internet."