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Originally Posted by Dre\w/
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I just got the email this morning from met-art. As I looked over the DMCA at chilling effects I noticed some very big players on the list and also noted the fact that I compete with them directly on SE traffic. My fucking jaw was on the ground when I went to google and typed in their URLs and they were no longer listed.
This is totally fucked up. I immediately called my friend in Ireland who runs a very big and similar site like the ones listed and he hadn't heard a thing about this yet. Thankfully, he survived it, but that's why I'm bumping this topic because a handful of the sites listed in the google ban depend on SE traffic for up to 50-60% of their visitors. If my friend hasn't even heard of this yet, then this is still fresh and deserves a bump. I'm on IM right now trying to get ahold of a few other webmasters that are listed to ask them if they'd heard about this.
I'm totally blown away at this crap.
Just my thoughts (...and just a bump)
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If I published how p10 tried to convince / approach us, you'll see how sneaky he was. If we were in need of money, or if we were incensed by the praises, and promises, we would have believed the sweet looking intentions.
Articles, money, promotions, copyright protection, etc.
I think that he was also looking for sites that do not file with the US copyright Office. We do, and we register every single image we own. It's a pain in the butt, because we purchase more than 200,000 images a year, but at the end of the day it also helps avoid these setups by people like p10.
I think that it was extremely easy to take the fall, as he lied on the table several baits. If one did not work, the other would have. What saved us is:
1) Our policy of not selling our content to preserve exclusivity.
2) The freaky contract
3) The difference between the bait, and the reality.
4) ...This thread
To the people that defend, or justify p10, remember this:
He was out of infringements with Google, so he lured others, that might have had infringed content (And it looks like they did not), and used them.
He purchased, most likely, selected photos, in order to go against the people that he already knew, might be infringing the copyright.
Turns out that the victims were affiliates, but he did not care about them, he was going against Google.