500 official statements :)

almost worth the trip to florida to watch the festivities.

So is the reason laws on copyright / dmca takedown still exist because politicians enjoy their youtube and free porn as well?

Nothing is going to change until the law changes. So many jobs, and so much money is at stake that something will hopefully happen soon.

doesnt change the fact it was stolen, even if it made you money, its called theft, so by your thoughts its ok if you steal something as long as you give it back when you find out.

So we can steal millions of dollars until we find it missing.

:1orglaugh

Far-L needs more acid.

It's amazing what we as an industry have grown accustomed to.

Fuck me, steal from me, do whatever you want to do, and then I will let is all slide because I will send you a notice and then you will remove it for a few weeks. Then do it all over again. And it's all good. lol

Interesting read - thanks for the link.

If I read correctly, I was surprised that John Albright never posted in that epic thread to defend himself or explain his position.

Fugitive Sam Jain et al are also known for their spyware exploits, and some here have suggested might possibly be in bed with Fabian Thylmann / Manwin now, who has suddenly also become quite reticent.

Not saying there is a connection, just noting a trend.

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you really think, anything is going to happen ? ;)

Nathan /Fabian is going to be there, right?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5IOsliFxM3...BootLicker.jpg

I predict much BROmance, and that many drinks will be purchased...

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I thought this was John replying, maybe an old nick? http://www.gfy.com/4027114-post34.html

My memory is bad but didn't Quickbuck (hooper wiseman) buy it from John? The interesting thing was (according to the post I linked to above) when people noticed the virus was the same time the site claimed to have been sold but John's info was still on the domain. I think it turned into a finger pointing match between the buyer and seller to who was doing the virus shit. Maybe some digging can shed more light on it.

I am a firm believer that what is in the beginning will be in the end. If you enter this industry as a scumbag you will leave this industry as a scumbag. No matter what you do in between. (You know who you are)

great point ProG

Yeah, I wonder why that is?

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Well, look at you, cornering on wittiness! Mum must be proud.

You don't think it is a little pathetic that you didn't learn from Shap at the time and are still dwelling on this issue like it was brand new crisis to the industry?:(

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Nice try but in the end sophistry will get you no where.

Where did I say it was ok to steal anything? In fact, I have clearly stated that we don't want our stuff used without permission and we work hard to constantly address the issue. Are you too simple to understand this? Do I need to have it translated to a more suitable language?

What is your stake in this anyway? Are you just mad that I don't feel an all encompassing need to help everyone else get their content taken off of places where they have not authorized it to be used? That is their job. Not mine. Sorry. Get over it.

The sad thing is we spent money on attorneys to see what we could do about the problem. (unlike the whiners like most folks here that just want to yelp and not actually do anything) We found that taking the course of action we took would be best - and that means making the best of a bad situation. Anyone that has seen a law suit all the way through knows that it is expensive and even with overwhelming evidence the outcome is uncertain. We took the path of trying to fix the problem and work with the issues. You don't like it? Show me something better.

Actually, what I really need is for you to not be such a dick.

But in lieu of that ever happening, I will accept the L to try and provide escape from such abtuse inanity and petty vulgarities. :disgust

You should back away for your own safety Far-L. Your head is getting so big it might explode.

i was replying to your anology regarding steve lightspeeds response about a car being stolen, and you saying it was ok.

?

Just the fact that you would say something like that means you feel superior in some sense so I don't think I have anything to worry about for the time being.

Now get back to those fries before your manager catches you acting like a moron on GFY.

Learn from Shap :1orglaugh

I've learned everything about Shap that I need to know.


I'm hardly dwelling.

And no it's not a new problem but it is an ongoing problem thanks, in large part, to enablers like you and the aforementioned clown who's name you just brought into this thread.

This is rather sad actually.

You used to be one of the good guys.

You have brought anything to this other than swipes at me and my company. Does that make you feel important and like you have actually done anything here?

Now I'm an "enabler". Wtf? Are you in therapy now because you are having such a hard time wrapping your head around the idea that others don't just follow you and what you think people should do?

You take the high road and I'll take the low road, bro, and you can feel like you are better than me all you want. :1orglaugh

Grow up. Time to live in the real world and handle business.

Congrats to the boys at Brazzers for cashing out on top.

I don't think that simply by selling the company they relieved themselves from their pending legal wrangles involving money laundering and copyright violations...

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Ok.... if I can't see them stealing then there is no proof. If there is no proof then it is ok for me to do business with them because I need the sales....


Who am I ?

Any answers?

all kinds of them..............:Oh crap

Mansef is being taken to court; both by the US Federal government on illegal banking/money laundering charges (as it was reported), and by Pink Visual and their parent company (Ventura) over copyright violations.

Soon after both lawsuits were filed (months ago), Mansef was sold to Virage Media / Manwin (who we still have very little info about).

So far as I know, both lawsuits are still moving forward.

Meanwhile the frontman for Manwin, Nathan / Fabian Thylmann, has been less than forthcoming about answering questions regarding the company which has taken over Mansef's assets.

See this thread for the questions the self-proclaimed Managing Partner of Manwin has cowardly ducked from for days now:

http://www.gfy.com/17348326-post421.html

To continue with answering your questions, several significant adult industry copyright cases have in fact successfully been waged and won, or settled out of court, to the benefit of the suing company (the plaintiff).

If you were a content producer, then you would understand what some of the "bitching" is about, since it shouldn't be too hard to understand that if you spend significant money to create content, you wish to profit from the content you created, and decide whom else may or may not financially benefit from it as well. At it's essence, that afterall is what copyrights are all about.

Stealing is a violation of the law and wrong, and hiding behind loopholes in the law, is both morally and ethically, equally wrong. Unfortunately, some people in this industry are severely lacking in morals and ethics, or are willing to get in bed with what I can only regard as thieves, in a feeble attempt to protect their stake in the biz, not fully realizing that once they have exposed their vulnerability and weakness to the predators, it will only be a matter of time until they are devoured by the same predators whom they have supplicated themselves/their companies before.

It is undeniable that the DVD market is reeling, and pretty much on its knees, from their content being ripped off (or them selling off old catalogs in a desperate attempt to remain in business), and with internet pirates ripping and offering tons of their content (much of which was originally shot exclusively for DVD) for free on tube sites who are subsidizing their bandwidth and profiting using stolen/unauthorized content (like the bandits they are), by making money from companies advertising other non-video products (pills, dating services, cam shows, toys, etc), or upselling memberships to even more/better content (much of which is also alleged by some to be stolen).

In doing so, they have massively drained the traffic (the life-blood) from the traditional internet-based affiliate programs and paysites.

On top of all this, shamefully, many of the largest producer/content reseller companies are being co-opted, or are offering up snippets of their content, in what almost appears to be a quasi protection racket (extortion), to ensure that the bulk of their content is not wholesale stolen and uploaded, in exchange for relatively meager profits or link-backs posted alongside several upsells and traffic leaks which they gain no benefit from whatsoever, which likely yields very little to them for their cooperation/participation, compared to what they might otherwise make if they would band together to fight content piracy, and create a better, more equitable, infrastructure for the industry as a whole.

Don't get me started about the producers such as Brazzers and Mofos (aka Mansef) that are/were behind many of the worst offending tube sites themselves, despite their lies and deception about not being involved.

And still some would defend these people?!? :disgust

I blame fear, greed, and short sightedness, for much of the problem.

Many can attest, that even though I am a small independent producer, I have been on the front lines of the anti-piracy effort from the beginning. I do not wish to bow down to the people whom have been instrumental in destroying much of the industry as most of us know it.

I will continue to fight what I believe to be the good fight, and stand up for my beliefs. I am fortunate that I have mainstream business interests which are independent from my adult businesses (I actually operate several web sites, not one), so I am not dependent upon adult for my livelihood, even though I do fairly well in adult, and have plans to grow my adult businesses as best I can, given the current state of the economy and the industry.

I am also optimistic that the laws will eventually catch up with the technology, and that many of the people/companies behind the recent demise of the adult biz as we know it, will eventually be brought to justice, and be driven out of the business through stricter enforcement, and through the non-cooperation of industry people/companies with better business morals and ethics.

Well, hopefully, I've answered your questions theking (even though you won't answer even one simple one of mine, which is to name what adult web sites you currently operate/work for?).

Now if only Nathan / Fabian Thylmann would quit being a coward, and come in and answer my straightforward and simple questions honestly (see earlier link in this thread), maybe more people might trust him and his company.

Absent that, I do not think that he or his company are worthy of trust from honest and ethical people or companies in the adult industry.

:2 cents:

ADG

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I think I am such a great guy and champion of the people but really I am just a little dick with a big ego... who am I?

I am about to jump out here because it is just getting ridiculous but I just want to say that I still call you a friend, one of the few people I would trust in this biz, and one of the only ones here that contributed anything worthy of debate and discussion here. We may have different ways of dealing with this issue and opposing views on the matter entirely but I respect where you are coming from. Sorry that our way of dealing with it would cause any friction or misunderstandings, but we all have to pick our own way through the minefield of day to day biz so to speak. War is hell.

Maybe one day we will laugh over a beer and one or the other will get the privilege of an "I told you so". :thumbsup:winkwink:

I understand Farrell. I assume that you know I have been consciously avoiding debating with you precisely because I do consider you a friend, and one of the most knowledgeable people in the business.

You have articulated your positions quite well, and while I might not agree with all of them, I do understand them.

I am not trying to be a gadfly here, I genuinely would like to see the questions which I posed to Nathan / Fabian answered. To me, that would go a long way towards establishing whether we will see any real changes with Mansef / Manwin, or if it will be just more smoke and mirrors, and business as usual.

Finally, I don't think that it has to come down to an "I told you so" moment between you and I, since there is certainly more than one way to conduct business, and I like to think that our friendship runs deeper than that.

I wish you well, and look forward to having that beer with you before too long... :drinkup

P.S. I was just up in Seattle recently, and thought about calling you, but I was dealing with my Dad passing away, and so I spent time with my family while up there instead. I'll definitely call the next time I'm up that way - you're a lot more fun to hang out with than my relatives, lol.

ADG

Will76... respect to you too for using an open source image to mock me with. At least that shows that you not a hypocrite about content copyrights. Respect.

You aren't a bad guy and I apologize for busting your balls. You are free to criticize us as you see fit. Hopefully, you can hear me on these simple points. We don't condone theft of content. We know that all the "user" submitted tubes exist in a grey area of being considered "theft" - and this is true for mainstream as well, ie, YouTube before it was cleaned up, etc. We took the time and effort and expense to weigh this problem in depth and decided on a course of action that is highly controversial. We did not make the decision lightly.

You say they are "theives" but forgive me, until that is proven by something like the PV lawsuit, or government crackdown, or whatever, I have to go by innocent until proven guilty. People call Google and Bing theives for the same reasons. Do you think they are? I have not had the problems others encountered. Why should I go by anything else that people I don't even know claim? How do I know their intentions? What if someone claimed someone you work with and have only had a good experience with was bad? Would you go by the accusation of someone you don't know or the experience of your own relationship? We work with Google and Bing to make money, even though they "stole" a ton of our content. Right or wrong. Ethical or unethical? If only it were so simple.

I know that sharing this has prompted such criticism and ridicule but hopefully people can see that there are a lot more intricacies to this than just who or who didn't upload content. On that count, it is not a matter of us not caring as people here accuse, it is a matter of taking control of the situation in a way that doesn't hurt us with costly litigation against an uncertain outcome, that can reverse a loss to a profit, and that adjusts to the ever changing landscape of how the industry evolves. We wish it could be as black and white as you see it, if it were, trust me, I would be in total agreement, but that is just not the case. For us, there are so many shades of grey and we have to find our own way through that fog. Sorry that we have to be at odds as a result.

Hey having a small dick is an inherited problem, being an asshole is a learned trait. :winkwink:

You do know that you also hot linked an image that you didn't own, unless you owned ratemydick and that was your image you posted? At least I didn't post nude content, without knowing the source, age of the person in picture etc... again unless that is a self picture then I apologize.

I'm not looking for anyone's respect I speak my mind. What I think about your actions in this thread and you doing business with pornhub and needing to see proof, blah blah, is your business philosophy not mine. I am saying what I think about it. Take it or leave it, it's my opinion. You jumped in to defend them, so you tossed it out there for everyone else to comment about. I didn't go looking for you or tried to drag you into this thread.

If you looking for respect or approval from people here for your actions, then I think you would get that if you were just honest with people and said you doing it because you want to make money. Instead of trying to defend pornhub with all of the bs no one is buying anyway.

You would have been the type that did well during the Terror in France. You just want heads in guillatines. So much so you don't even listen. I believe the following sentence clearly states that we had financial reasons for our decision, "it is a matter of taking control of the situation in a way that doesn't hurt us with costly litigation against an uncertain outcome, that can reverse a loss to a profit, and that adjusts to the ever changing landscape of how the industry evolves".

Notice how I used an image that kept the source advertising on it. I bet you a dollar that they appreciate the advertising to help drive traffic.

I am going back to eating my cake. You can eat some too.

Now... please... respectfully, get off my jock.

Great, well at least I can take comfort that my being an asshole will end with my death but not you... you are going to sire generations and generations of dicks. No wonder the world is so hard to change. :1orglaugh:321GFY

so its ok if i download all the content from the homegrown members areas, upload them to a tube site, but as long as i take it down when you find out i have it listed its ok?

apparently... as long as a "user" does it and not the site owner. :upsidedow So i can go start a tube site and you can be my "user" who uploads his content to it. Then you go start a tube site and I will be a user and upload his content to it. Then we legal and he is cool with everything, as long as we take it down when he catches us stealing.



your a douche, and everyone who reads this thread knows your a douche. I'll leave it at that and get off your jock now. Your own words speak 10x louder than anything I can post about you.

Enjoy your cake.

Will- Its possible that this is a self pic of Farrell but highly unlikely. I seem to recall pics of old where he was much younger and "substantial". I could verify this for you but I have no idea where those old Giffy Girls Cds are.

Farrell - I think if people knew you and your business with the history of both recent and the past they would be more inclined not to label you a modern day Dr Evil.

The amount of time and money HGV put into that bogus lawsuit for the good of the entire industry certainly has a lot of weight in the goodwill and charity department.

At least for me.

While others have forgotten it or are numbly unaware of it - its not anything that I will ever forget. For all of us that have videos on our sites - I thank you and your company for its tenacity to see that to its end.

I realize there would be no tube debate had Homegrown and a coalition of site owners not stood up to a smarmy group of lawyers that thought they had pulled a fast one.

You are my oldest friend in the business as we both know this precludes the internet back to the days of dial up. I guess very few people know you started out as THE good guy in this business.

Sometimes we take different paths to get thru the hard times but I do expect to see you on the other side.

It seems like people have forgotten who the true enemy is.

Fabian stepped in, mostly everyone jumped in on him and then he stepped out and everyone is now arguing about each other.

Don't lose sight of the ball...

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And still no answer from him. I can see he is reading this, but for some reason he dont want to answer my question. https://gfy.com/showpost.php?p=17353104&postcount=487

He should invite me over, give me a tour through the company, and display some of that transparency he speaks so highly of.

The fact that you and others keep up saying this over and over shows how little you pay attention to what I am saying, and how you just are taking the opportunity to spew crap.

Pathetic.

Where in here did I say it was alright to use our content without permission? I have made it very clear that we don't allow that and we worked to inhibit that from happening.

Yet you keep saying this inaccurate accusation; what is your problem? I can't believe you are that stupid so it must be that you are just more concerned with trying to hurt our reputation by whatever means possible. :321GFY

Stop with these silly misleading analogies. If you read any of what I wrote then you would know that is not alright or what we are condoning. You and fris need to realize that just concocting these absurd scenarios and not actually responding to what I'm saying is the epitome of arrogance.

You are like one of these government officials that did nothing to prevent the oil spill but now want to rail on the guy who volunteered to clean up the beach but can't do enough with the tools provided. So in essence, you neither avoided the problem or actually helped do anything about it other than point blame at the undeserving volunteer stuck in muck.

So...

You just earned the title of head blivet on the booger patrol. Now keep working toward your pissant badge. Congratulations!

(blivet- ten pounds of horseshit stuffed in a five pound bag)

So if I am a douche and you are using me to wash the sins of the industry away then you must be a stinky, itchy vagina. Take better care of yourself.

the only reason i say that, its cause thats how brazzers/manwin/mansef feels, im not trying to attack you in anyway, i have respect for you and your company, im just saying this is how they feel about this issue, as long as you issue a dmca request and they will take it down, but thats after the fact they know whaty they are doing is wrong, they just try to do it for as long and to make a profit off others work until they are "caught" meaning a dmca is issued.

The only thing i saw was your reply about lightspeed steves car being stolen and you saying it was ok as long as it made him money, or maybe i misread into that.

:2 cents:

My apologies - I am getting a bit sensitive for obvious reasons.

I can explain that perhaps more clearly by saying that if my car is one of those that has been plastered with ads like a metro bus then someone driving it around before I got it back isn't hurting me too terribly. Inconveniencing, yes, but at the end of the day it was not a total disaster. Would I want them to ask next time? Yes. Would it be ok to do it with out asking? No. Of course not. But I blame myself for leaving the keys out and will take steps to avoid that in the future. Hope that makes more sense.

Hi Nathan / Fabian Thylmann ... :hi

Still hiding? :1orglaugh

For a self-proclaimed "Managing Partner" of Manwin, it appears that you know very little about managing damage control.

Your credibility diminishes every minute you remain silent.

What exactly is it that you are you afraid of?

We both know... :winkwink:

The FBI? Interpol? Surely not basic questions put forward by others in the adult industry, whom you asked to trust you...

You started this thread asking everyone to trust you, and yet you cowardly refuse to answer straightforward questions in an honest way, perhaps wishing the questions would just go away.

Meanwhile, the view count in this thread has gone up by thousands, and likely more and more people in the industry (and those monitoring this board) are starting to wonder what it is that you may be hiding.

Still you try to continue to hide, perhaps curled up in the corner sucking your thumb (or some other appendage of one of your masters/partners), unable to respond to very simple questions. That's not very becoming of a self proclaimed industry leader.

The funny thing is that this very past day you were caught lurking here on GFY. How sad and pathetic do you look like for that? :1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

You and your handlers/consultants have had several days now to craft answers of any kind to the questions posed to you, yet like cockroaches, you and your "partners" continue to hide from the light.

Once again, here is another opportunity to come clean with the industry, and answer these rather simple questions:

By refusing to answer these questions, many people may possibly have to conclude that you indeed have something to hide, and are therefore untrustworthy, or that you may be too busy serving the hidden partners pulling your strings to come clean about your company:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5IOsliFxM3...BootLicker.jpg

What kind of man, if any, are you?

Quit hiding and answer the questions.

ADG

There are two types of corporations that hide behind fake name and ID's, and he aint the CIA.