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Join Date: Aug 2003
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Originally posted by LadyMischief
No, the Acacia situation is entirely different... Not only are they extortionists on a huge level, but they are suing for something that has much prior art, and a patent that is sketchy at best (and something they didn't even develop, which if I had my say, would give them NO claim to it). That's an ENTIRELY DIFFERENT sitauation from copyrights that are being dealt with here. Acacia are vultures who buy up patents with the sole purpose of pursing legal action and suing and profiting from those patents. Producing content is a whole other matter altogether. They may fall under the same laws, but that's like comparing apples and oranges.
If you were a content producer and someone, and their affiliates were profiting ILLEGALLY from your product, would you not seek legal recourse? I would, and I have. As an artist, and as someone who puts out money to produce content, why should I essentially allow my product to be given away for free? Something I spend my money on creating, and something I spend my time creating? Should I allow others to profit freely from my hard work, money, and effort? No... Content theft is theft, period. The affiliates in this case are victims, however unfortunate, but they are STILL LEGALLY LIABLE. I'm not sticking up for the company suing per se, I'm sticking up for my right as a content producer and provider to ask and recieve what is due for my work, and the same for ANYONE who produces content, takes pictures, makes a movie, draws anime or hentai, etc etc etc. It's all the same thing. I shoot mainstream photography as well, and I tell you, I HAVE sued people for using my images without legal rights to do so. Why? Because it's my LIVLIHOOD that's at stake. And if they can steal my picture and make money from it, what's to say they can't do the same for other things, or do the same to other people?
If the example of what's going on here is to become the norm, it would basically mean that I would go out, pay models, take the pictures and time to do that, post-produce, do the paperwork, pay legal fees to my lawyers etc etc etc and then just turn around and give those pictures or movies away freely to anyone who wants to use them to turn a buck. Is that what you'd like me to do? Because, essentially, that's what it boils down to. That doesn't make me a hypocrite in the least.
If affiliates of this program are in danger, they shouldn't be angry at JM, the should be angry at the company that placed them in a precarious legal position in the first place, because as far as I'm concerned, it's the PROGRAM'S responsibility to ensure that their content is 100% legal, and that they are using it within legal boundries. THEY are the ones putting their affiliates at risk by not doing so. Being angry at JM for excercising their legal right to sue for their work, time, and money is misdirected at best.
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"If you were a content producer and someone"
I am a content producer and am glad you're shifting your focus to the victims of this situation instead of the rights of a company to sue.
Nice way to edge out of the Acacia issue without mentioning your stance on their legal rights... which is what I referenced in my post to you  I'll let you slide this time 
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