1 ) My content is already shown with dinamic "antihotlink" link that is set to expire in several hours. So you will hotlink the flv, finish your design, put it online and 6 hours later the link will be expired and your surfers will be kicked to a flv with BIG letter saying "Visit MY-TUBE-HERE" effectively routing your surfers to the correct place (my tube). I can set that expire time to whatever I want. From minutes to months or years. you can link directly the video file with or without my video player, it's completely indifferent.
2 ) All the flvs pulled from any domain other than mine are pulled from a traffic shaped environment that will not disturb my normal tube operation or surfers experience and has already set bw limit per country, so it's not that you can route 500k chinese surfers and cause me some damage. At the moment there are 200 Mbit set for hotlinking. China specifically is set to be able to burn 5 Mbit, USA and EU are at 75 each one and the rest is for all other parts of the world. You cannot burn more than that whatever you do.
3 ) I can affrod 100 or 200 Mbit more, and it doesn't even get noticed in my hosting bill, but the extra real surfers routed from "smart" hotlinkers sites that come to my site never go back to the sites they came from.
4 ) I license all my content, pay the big bw bill and still make very nice profit... without using prepaid ad spots. I don't need to care about DMCA, but you will have to if you hotlink me.

All big tubes have very similar setup, so you cannot cause any real damage to them by hotlinking. If it makes you money, just go ahead and do it :)

Donny you should skin GFY next with your tube idea....

Nice, but you know nothing is fool proof right? Give me your tube url, I bet in 3 hours I can have code written to hotlink your flv file, without showing your player, and it will never expire on my end, therefore I can put my own ads on your videos, and you'd be none the wiser.

I do it to Google, so what makes you think if a mult-billion dollar corporation like Google can't stop me, you will?

My guess ... create a big ass BLACK HAT SEO campaing aimed at the big tubes and make them banned from Google!! :)

I will have to now call you out on statement #4. Please post your url because there is not a chance in hell you are making any money w/out advertising spots.

If you hot link Tube content then you just give them more power, as soon as your site blimps on their stats, they know who you are and can make the call to allow you to continue or block you.

Killswitch
Instead of figuring how you can get around these things, if you put your effort and skills in to coming up with a system to protect the righful owners of movies your might find yourself being a billion dollar company as well.

Whoever owns that script should release it for free. :2 cents:

you need a script that takes out the watermark for the Tube and the intro advertising the tube.......

To bad he is BBBBBand to the bone...
Sorry could not post in the ADG thread since Eric locked it right after giving him a 3 month ban.

Hint if your lurking donny, that means you can maybe come back in late December. Holiday season and all they may not get to your email until perhaps 2011 though.

Your sites don't convert.

on your frontpage it says, NATS coming soon. Can someone from NATS confirm this???

as mentioned by killswitch previously, its possible to not show their ads on their scraped videos. not sure about the watermark.

It's quite very easy, at least on most sites.

Donny Long what happened to your other thread "ADG is banned"?? :)

lol. omg.

It got locked by eric and donny was banned in it.

Expect no replies until December 28th at the earliest.