Fuck you Fling you thieves (pic)
 

Again nothing new, I see tons of stolen content on Fling all the time. Of course their excuse is always "it must be a member doing it". Bullshit.

Unless members make their banners for them, they are thieves. They produce more content in a week than most of us that they steal from do in a month, so why not use their own content to promote themselves? Below is a banner using my copyrighted content.

Unbelievable.

http://www.johnnyshoehorn.com/hotlin..._you_fling.jpg

oyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

hah. are you sure she didn't sign up?

Sue the fuckers!

Yes I am sure. And even if that were the case, I own that picture. :2 cents:

whoooops

And here we go again...

Anyone who can confirm the rumour that they hit the free members heavily with upsells to their other sites (which the affiliate gets no credit for) before upselling them to a paid Fling membership?

I've actually talked to my attorney about it and he said it would probably cost into the six figure range. But the more I see this shit the more angry I get and the closer I come to putting up the money to do something about it.

That wouldn't surprise me.

that's not very nice :(

That looks like a banner that rotates random fling images through it. It's obviously some member is using her image to phish out fling members. It happens everyday, I am sure she is on every dating site known to man kind.

imagine what will happen when you realize this is 2007 and you learn what torrent and tube site are! You might have a heart attack.

That's fucked up...

Sig spot..

Fake photos on their "verified photo" banner ....

Thats fucked up, and nothing surprises me any more.

thats messed up... as for them using the free signups to upsell their other sites its true... ive seen the members area... all they have is upsells

So you mean that it's OK to do it, just because other thieves do it too? :1orglaugh

I don't believe that my copyrighted content was stolen by someone who was a member of Fling, then uploaded the picture, then Fling just happened to feature it on a banner. And I don't believe that the banner I posted is one that rotates random content in.

And lets assume that all that is true, and that Fling is innocent, which I HIGHLY doubt, you using the excuse that "it is 2007 and there are torrent and tube sites" is a pretty terrible excuse.

ooooooo snap

Anybody ever read the disclaimer on the content download area of ND?

"All of these pictures and movies are owned and copyrighted by Nastydollars. These pictures and movies are only to be used for promotion of the Nastydollars sites. Using the pictures and movies for anything else is a copyright infringement, as prohibited by the U.S. Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 101 et seq., (see http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/title17/) and International copyright law and is in direct violation of the international rights of the copyright owner. We have someone at our office that does nothing other than surf the web and TGPs to find webmasters using our content and not following our rules. Violaters and their host are then sent a letter from our lawyer, via certified mail, with a cease and desist. Hosts, especially including free hosts, will always take down the content since they are liable too. If the content is still not taken down the cost per picture and/or movie is $6 per day (so if you have a 25 pic gallery that is costing you $150 per day..it is much easier to just follow the rules). COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT IS AN OPEN AND CLOSED CASE IN COURT AND WE HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PROSECUTED WEBMASTERS THAT HAVE VIOLATED OUR RULES."

I am espescially fond of that last sentence.

make an example of them.......SUE THE SHIT OUT OF THEM!

so whats new

Its 1999 again, no one cares about stealing content. Find some of my Nubiles girls there and I will be happy to sue them.

Damn that sucks.

I've posted threads before about getting a class action style suit going, but no one seems too interested. :2 cents:

oh oh's!

It makes sense to me that Fling would put 'member' pics in rotation - the more clicks they get then the more they appear in that rotation.

That would explain the problem... however as they have been informed of this before they need to look at a new way of doing things, or they will get this all the time.

I cant see they would do this on purpose - I am pretty shaw they have a pretty large collection of pics themselves :)

It is always better to resolve this behind close doors. Bringing in an attorney gets costly, plus time and effort on your part. I have been sued and have sued people. The easiest way is to resolve this behind close doors unless the other guy is a complete asshole and unreasonable.

Like I said earlier, they produce more content in a week than I do in a month. Yet I would be willing to bet money that no one will ever see any ND or BangBros content in a Fling creative.

I agree, but this has been an ongoing problem with them for quite some time now.

Oh come on. You really think that banner is pulling "random members"? Yet the 4 girls are all gorgeous and 2 happen to be solo girls. So out of an enormous dating site with thousands upon thousands of members, 4 of the best looking girls on the site were randomly pulled and thrown in a banner?

I think I promoted them for 1 day... then I realized who i was promoting... :(

crappy...

As long as they are willing to be helpful, not be an asshole and remove your images within a reasonable time table then we can move forward. Taking the road and turnishing their image on the boards does not help mediate any problems. Bashing on the board only causes animosity and you may burn important bridges that you may need to cross down the road.

Exactly.

It would be very easy to create a database of "approved members", that would all be verified and incredibly hot, that would be used for the banners.

This would kill two birds with one stone and would be very easy to set up.

How do you know that you don't get credit for that?

If we did get credit for those signups it would explain why Fling converts free to paid at 1:10 for me whereas all the other personals sites I've sent traffic too never convert to paid memberships.

I understand what you're saying, but should he have to comb through Fling's enormous members area looking for photos of his models? Shouldn't Fling be the ones fighting the content theft?

I agree, if it were that easy. I am talking to another sologirl webmaster right now who is telling me that they've been having the same problem, and that "awhile back they were all about removing our stuff, but ofcourse its still up there".

Let me put it this way, if you had a sibling or cousin or whatever who always came into your room and stole something from you, the first time or two you might say "Hes family, I'll let it slide with me just telling him that I caught him and I don't want it to happen again". After it happened the 10th time, wouldn't you realize that your first appproach wasn't very effective?

even if it'll cost 6 figures.. do you understand how much $ you stand to gain from it? something like 150k PER offense...

that sucks dude, go get em !lol

Yeah, plus since I have registered the site and all images with the Library of Congress I am entitled to all attorneys fees, so in the end it would probably end up costing me nothing.

I am going to be heading back to Michigan for the holidays this afternoon, and since the weather is shitty there I'll have lots of time to talk to my attorney and see what he says. :)

I'm backing Shoehorn on this. Someone needs to call these shady ass dating sites out

:thumbsup

In other news, I'll be back in Michigan tomorrow morning for a couple weeks, we need to get something planned.

Is the far right one Next Door Nikki too?

I think so.

Pipecrew is a rational thinker
 

The images used on promotional material are taken from pictures uploaded to profiles on Fling.com. We do not practice nor condone copyright infringement.

The proper way to handle this scenario would be to contact our 24/7 webmaster support team located here: http://www.hugetraffic.com/help.htm (there are emails and ICQs), or just email webmaster at hugetraffic dot com and provide an example of the images that you would like to have removed. They typically will be removed within 24 hours, but give it a couple of days if reported during the weekend.

You get more flies with honey...you know what I mean ;) hit me up on ICQ and we can get this issue resolved right away.

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You think that was my excuse for that? I know how fling operates, I have seen it first hand, I know for a fact they arent looking for solo sites nobody has heard of and stealing the images from them. This is not some operation run out of Moms basement.

Do I think its shitty that this girl keeps getting in fling? sure, but are they doing it? No. She is your average looking nextdoor girl that people are probably using to message members claiming she needs money for college etc. Some members are probably dumb enough to send money, so the behavior always continues.

Go to rapidshare or any other service and search for any bangbros video, you will see it listed over 100,000 times, do I cry and make 100,000 threads for each video? No, Do I blame rapidshare? No, I am smart enough to realize that it's obviously not rapidshare and that it's some teenager with too much time on his hands, so I have someone contact them and it gets removed in 24 hours.

Dude, hell yeah! I'll be around for the holidays. Hit me up or I'll hit you up :thumbsup

i read the terms - even though your stuff is copyright protected it is still fair game for them to use for their own use

:2 cents::thumbsup