It's funny that in an industry such as this anyone would suggest a host banning these type of sites. This would be like MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo or even Google getting their hosting account pulled. There is due process for copyright violations. Webmasters and content producers might not like it but that is the law. If it were any other way the whole internet would implode.

youtube??

wow finally an intelligent post in a thread full of whinning.

as long as they fully comply with the DMCA the safe harbor provision makes their use of your copyrighted material legal.

Well said mate:thumbsup

Bump for Brad's leadership on a serious issue!

Good job Brad. I wish you the best of luck man. I cannot think of any right off of the top of my head but congrats to you for helping with this serious issue. Nobody should ever steal anyone else's content.

those within the industry should stick together for ethics regardless of legal technicalities allowing theft to go unpunished in the meantime

tnaflix are pretty big too. But they seems down?!

The thing that I don't understand here is this. If they stop hosting somewhere (let's say all adult hosts stop taking their business) won't another host be more than happy to host them. The money has to be good for that much bandwidth.

does this extend to threats to the industry as well
say for example when the religious right says all porn sites should be shut down for ethical reasons.

can we sticky this again?

So let me clarify, Illegal content, as far as I am concerned as a host, Is when my lawyer checks out the dmca and finds it not wanting, or Fbi, secret service or local law enforcement asks for it to be taken down. Illegal is not when someone on gfy types about it. I have been in the business of hosting for 12 years, I have seen lots of BS claims and lots of BS DMCA's.

please, everyone can spot these illegal tube sites.

I guess just don't host with hosts that allow illegal tube sites on their network.

Bumpiddy for Brad !

should we be fine with theft if they have their loopholes covered?? :error

I tend to think that hosts who have their bread buttered by a clientele of predominately adult sites who choose to also host tube sites with stolen content are kind of like animals that are eating their young?

Perhaps thats a bad analogy.

Here's another one.. how about BlockBuster video having a section for pirated copies for rent and for sale.

Brad

Or like Comcast letting you download AOL over your internet connection? It's an emotional response but killing someones hosting because you don't agree with how they legally make money is as unethical as using loopholes to run your business.

Ok so you think it's legal to post movies on your websites where you don't own the copyright or haven't been given the right to do so? That's not a question of ethics or emotions, this is one of legality. The absence of receipt of a DMCA complaint doesn't make hosting a copyrighted file any more legal that it would be to run down the street with stolen property after robbing a liquor store if the cops didn't catch you.

Brad

thank god we have intelligence on our side :thumbsup

It is specifically legal according to the law. Also, if copyright infringement was considered theft you could have people that "steal" from you prosecuted for theft. That sir is not the law and you know it.

You are pulling a Hillary and pandering to the bitter middle class webmasters in order to sell more hosting accounts.

The DMCA was created because of people thinking like you. Do you cry when Google uses your content without permission or is that ok because they send you a few hits for the trouble? Who cares if they are worth hundreds of billions thanks 100% to content they did not create.

The RIAA is not running around demanding prosecution of copyright infringers because it is not considered theft. It has it's own name.

My point is your moral outrage is hilarious considering you are in the business of hosting content that causes more moral outrage than damn near anything else in the world. If we start policing the internet based on morals there wouldn't be a single website left.

You have emotions on your side because this is something YOU have a vested interest in. Are you equally outraged when someone downloads music or movies from P2P? Do you not associate with people that have cracked versions of windows or photoshop on their computers?

If you want to take the moral high ground and not host with anyone that allows copyright infringement let's go all the way. Let's demand that every host verifies their customers pay for all of their programs and don't "steal" music or any other data. I mean we wouldn't want our host to work with people like THAT would we?

You mean that they don't have their own data center with many floors in their own buildings .... SHOCKING.. :upsidedow

LeaseWeb

You are exactly right, and I didnt mean my comment to put you down you at all, I just meant that it's great that people are taking the time to go against this with knowledge

Only thing I know is that I'm a small time adult webmaster that does see effects of the "free porn" age murdering my ratios and sales, I am up for combatting it even in the small way that I possibly can.

I think problematic tube site number one is pornhub beacuse they holding major keywords and that takes a lot of quality traffic away.Also comparing youtube with porn tube sites doesnt have sense beacuse youtube is very fast when it comes to removing copyrighted content.

Well, if it were true moral outrage it would hold some weight. However, the only reason this gets any play is because the content being discussed is the same content most here profit from. The fact that a host in the porn industry is taking the moral high ground on it comes off as pandering.

Even if the entire industry gets behind this the offenders will move to a new host and go about their business. The law isn't changing because too many power brokers have their entire business models at stake and will not allow it. Tube sites are going nowhere, well unless you count a host that doesn't claim things illegal that actually aren't.

So you think we shouldnt ever give any resistance?

You are correct and thus is why brad's Idea in concept is a good one but will never work. There are simply to many hosts that the illegal tube can move to. BUT there are only a very few adult online processors, so a MUCH better solution would be to have the very few processors, like ccbill, netbilling, epoch.... STOP processing for these sites or sponsors on these sites. That would only take a few processors to put an end to the tubes...:2 cents::2 cents:

<-- proud to be hosting with guys who do not host tube sites with illegal content (hint: see thread starter) :thumbsup

Most of them don't even have billing, how would that help?

All they need to do is stop processing for any sponsor that these illegal tubes use. As soon as the sponsor finds out they will not accept traffic from these tubes anymopre.....It really is very simple, however GREED will never allow it to happen.

Bump for the BIG list - I only see a few and I know there's more.

85&#37; of tube sites are hosted on USA hosts. I know this for fact after doing a lot of research. They can get cheaper bw here then elsewhere. Places like alphared that will give you cogent at 5 bucks per MBPS etc.

I also know from my personal battles with megarotic that if you mass DMCA a host they will do something. I called carpathia 5-10 times a day and it got results, that and having segpay pull the plug on them, it adds up. Shit can get done if you take the time to do it.

DMCA can be very powerful if you one know how to use one, and two know how to make an impact with them.

Brad is you have any questions, or anything else please do hit me up on ICQ.

I found that posting things on GFY only brought harm to my own sites and business..

:)

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Bump for a Top Notch Host

We're proud to be hosted by the great team that Mojo is :thumbsup

Clearly, we haven't met yet. Let's sit and chat at an upcoming tradeshow, you won't be able to indict my sincerity after meeting me. I'm known for good character, not pandering.

Exactly. Kudos to your own efforts VG.

Working on it, working on it!

Thanks Jamie! We're very happy to host your top notch mature hotties :thumbsup


Cheers,

Brad

I'll just take your word for it. The point was this is an issue here because it's content from this industry. The same stuff goes on all over with no outrage to be seen.

People seem to forget a few things when they point to the music industry, mainstream TV and others. The tube sites like youtube and such do not hurt their bottom lines like illegal porn tube sites hurt us. We don't have various outlets for a revenue stream, we are based on the net and depend on the net for our profits. TV shows have commercials, game sales, merch, DVD, re-runs and others to all gain profits from.

When you take our content which 95% of our profits come from selling a membership to see full length videos within our members areas and give them all away for free that takes away basically our entire revenue stream.

Pretty easy to find out who's hosting them if you have the URL of the tube site.

Hey Brad, hit me up. I have a list of pretty much all of them.