So I don't imagine I'll get much sympathy here, as I am that hotlinking motherfucker who owns Fusker!. But bear with me a moment and maybe even give me your opinion about this, as this seems to be the best BB to ask:
What we would like to do at fusker.com, starting as soon as possible is
1. Offer more options for webmasters to easily allow/disallow hotlinking/direct download linking.
2. Offer those who do allow such linking benefits.
What I most want to know is under what conditions would you be willing to have your content hotlinked (or allow direct links to movie downloads) -- what would you want to get in return?
Here is what we were planning:
1. Use the extract.xml standard to let webmasters control if and how they would permit hotlinking. (see
http://extractxml.sourceforge.net, unfortunately hosted by those imbecile geeks at sourceforge -- you might have to reload each page a couple times)
2. Link all images shown at Fusker! to the url indicated in the extract.xml file
3. Give fuskered webmasters a special zone that appears when their content is shown. This zone would provide a description of their content, copyright info, a link to their site, and a place where they could put advertising for anything they wanted (including affiliate cash links).
4. Create an easy to use form at fusker.com so webmasters could fill out their preferences to get a personalized extract.xml file ready to upload to their site.
Any thoughts?
One more thing... and maybe this should go in another post, but wtf....
A significant number of our fuskers are links to movie samples. What would be really cool is to offer for sale the full movie every time we link to the samples, and let people buy it directly for a couple bucks. That would mean some kind of affiliate arrangement with people who might want to sell full-length movies one by one. Does anyone out there know how to set that up. What I
don't want to do is set up a seperate thing with every site selling milf, backdoor or feature lenght porn vids.
Alright, so thanks for your time. Let me know what your think or just flame me or whatever. You can even ICQ me: 175679392