File Sharing Fuckers
 

It was brought to my attention today that a shed load of our stuff is being shared at extreme-board.com
I have sent DMCA notices to all relevent parties and await appropriate responses.
However, if you run any femdom / bdsm orientated site you may want to check this out as there is a good chance some of your stuff may be on there!!!
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It's people like these scum bags that put people out of business!!!

and you can do next to nothing :(

now go to google and search for part of the download links, i mean if you see link like rapidshare.com/files/72635215/filename5645.zip , try search google for 72635215 or filename5645, now you see where everywhere is content shared. if you check all the places, you can track the original poster and just control his reposts. have luck with your fight everyone :)

Excellent tip TeenCat :thumbsup

I randomly pulled a link from my DMCA Excel file (I keep track of all the DMCA's I've sent and which links have been taken down and which ones are still up) and was able to track down the original uploader from a message board.

Good luck.

That forum is a fucking devil.

BTW, AWEMPIRE is Supporting those guys.

Can you believe it??? And nobody in adult webmaster forums, talks about it. NOBODY.. We, as webmasters are doing nothing to fight them. We resigned loooooong ago.

Also, pay attention to new webmasters asking you for MEMBERS AREA ACCESS... Many of them are looking to RIP your MEMBERS AREA and distribute it to sharing file sites, to get PAID 10 bucks every 1000 downloads....

We can do things, to fight them, but we as webmasters are way behind those fuckers... We webmasters, are passive and naive... We must change and take action. (if someone cares about quoting my post, quote the whole message, not just part of a phrase to try to deffend illegal forums, ok?)

Good luck reporting those fuckers.

You never heard of that board before? Its insane there. Terabytes of content.

It's amazing nobody takes action against the uploaders. Stop complaining and do something about it.

Any news BNMedia?? Did they take your stuff down??

Damn, can't believe this thread didn't get any more replies.

But again... Did those fuckers take your stuff down, man??

may as well give them free advertising while you are at it.

GOOD JOB!

So far the webmaster has not responded to me but I have had a response from hotfile who have taken down all the files I reported. I have done a domain whois lookup and a tracert to the server and will use my findings to take the matter further.
MetaMan I would not normally provide a link to forums such as that in most cases, but as this is a Webmaster board I have taken the chance in the hope of getting more people on board to close this down. Free advertising to the lurchers may be the price I have to pay. So yes LickMyBalls I am doing something about it and posted this in the hope that others might also if they are affected!

On a side note it makes me laugh that the people of this board and other similar boards allow 'donations' which potentially allows them to profit illegally from other peoples hard work!

The donations aren't shit...They probably are making more money as an affiliate of Live Jasmin :( And of course a cam site doesn't care about your content. Cam sites aren't really even in the porn business.

to do what?

So, several days on the webmaster has not responded to my DMCA notice.
I reported them to their Dutch service provider and also to VBuletin for breaching their terms and conditions of use. So far I have heard nothing back from anyone though :-(

To piss me off even further today I have discovered that another well known file sharing forum is making things much more difficult than before. Following a message to the webmaster I received the message back:

"For some time now **** has offered and managed a complimentary blacklist. This service has been discontinued from 03 May, 2010

Provisions for takedown and copyright infringement are precisely dictated by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and safe harbor requirements of section 512 - a full copy of the Act may be found using google.com

The old blacklist gave the impression of an undertaking by saff.cc to monitor content 24/7/365. Nothing in the statute imposes affirmative obligations for **** to watch for or block potential future infringements save removal of clickable/url content found on **** and compliant with a properly filed DMCA notice.

**** operates in compliance with this act and as such, variations applied by **** in the past by offering a complimentary blacklist fall outside the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and safe harbor requirements of section 512.

This left us legally exposed and we are taking this opportunity to confirm our documented procedures for the expeditious removal of your content, within the scope of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and in a professional manner.

We assure you that properly filed Notices of claimed infringement will continue to be acted on expeditiously by ****

Please file your infringement claim in accordance with our takedown procedures, the following link outlines our DMCA Policy and provides an on-site url for the information required to expedite your claim. ****/index.php?action=forbidden"

At least they are responding, but still...what the fuck?
Why is it getting more difficult for producers to protect their copyrighted interests?

I have tried to star out all refence to the offending website so I can't be accused of giving 'free advertsing' to them!

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There are tons of similar sites out there. I will not post links, but there are plenty of them, and most do not seem to give two shits about DMCA notices.

It is too bad this industry doesn't have an army of vigilantes, as current online copyright laws are obviously not enough of a deterrent. A few broken legs can go a long way to fixing this business...

I think that we'll either see massive changes in law to protect copyright better OR we'll see what your talking about start to happen.

People will only let their wallet be hit so much before they start to take their own action. This goes for adult as well as mainstream. To be honest, I'm surprised it hasn't already happened.

That explains why all of a sudden links to our stuff started to pop up recently way more often than before at this forum (our sites were also in the black list).

I believe you're 100% right that we're not doing enough to protect our rights. What pisses me off most of all is that our worst enemies are allowed into community to advertise here openly.

My proposal is to file a petition to the board owners to ban at least the worst offenders such as AFF/LiveJasmin/Brazzers and prohibit any kind of promo for them including links, banners, sigs, promo threads etc. If they're allowed to continue to be there, those who signed will leave this board permanently.

I think it's about time to ask GFY owners to choose sides.

I'm dead serious about signing such thing because I'm really sick of seeing AFF and LJ links at every single site that is sucking our blood stealing our hard work, and at the same time seeing them here posting promo threads looking for business etc.

Hire somebody to search your links for that board and kill the rapid/megauploads yourself. You dont even need a dmca. They will pull at first request.
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I don't understand how boards like that stay up and running. That is Horrible. They should go directly to JAIL.

This guy figured it out: http://wp-board.com/

Thats a pretty interesting read Dirty Dane. Food for thought for everyone!

Today I have sent out several more dmca notices to hotfile and megaupload after discovering more new content on a file sharing site.
I think I would resent paying to do a task like this as suggested. Its an easy enough task, but its also draining on my time. So if things continue the way they are then I may rethink this. If not just give up the whole god damn adult entertainment biz!!!

Oh, Wifey is still around? Awesome. :)