Somehow I doubt that Steve is getting banned any time soon.

It actually looks more like this:

http://www.goodcleantech.com/IBM_Sup...uters_NOAA.jpg

Duh.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_LvBhVzBNyC...dumb-guy01.jpg

I think that about covers it :)

She's very nice, though :D

respect , respect , respect :thumbsup

great news for sure. bump for steve

Looks to me like Steve's doing a pretty damn good job of adapting.

I will quote you on that:thumbsup:thumbsup

keep us informed Steve!

Do you send them also out to NON US/CA situated companies?

They are going to everyone infringing on our content. I expect alot of international sites will ignore the letters. In fact, I'm counting on it. :winkwink:

Steve Lightspeed

Are there any countries in the world beside US? :Oh crap

i got one for passing around Steve's absinthe at cybernet

Good Luck, Let us know how that worked out for you

The DMCAs are in motion

Yeah called as "rest of the world"

:thumbsup Good luck man

<sarcasm>I'm sure its mostly from the link that says "free full Jordan Capri site rip here".</sarcasm>

We are going after sites that are posting our members-only content. File hosts and message boards where thieves post full sets, full videos, and site rips. I'm not looking to bother anyone following our TOS and linking back to our sites.

I expect we might lose some typein traffic, but I also expect our ratios to improve overall. I'd rather have the joins than the useless traffic.

Do you have a better idea to combat blatant piracy?

Steve Lightspeed

We have gone the Robbie route and have taken down all of the large high quality downloadable video options. We have streaming and small file downloads.

This is about business and making money now and I am sick of providing superb free quality free content for pirates and forums.

[not pissing around]Have bat, will travel[/not pissing around]

The trouble with epass has hopefully slowed that down.

Fight the windshild

The pirates use PayPal.

when done with that update your sites from 1999.

I fear it's futile Steve, but I applaud your efforts.

Awesome!!!! :thumbsup

I already see results,sales are finally back at LScash

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This is an incredibly positive thing. Steve is looking out for his and all his partners income and doing it the right way. :thumbsup

I support all around what you're doing... It's your property, so protect it.

I'm not saying ignore piracy here because controlling it on the major sources is a must. But don't expect anything to change on your side sales wise, I've seen it first hand several times now and sales never improve. It feels good to protect yourself, but it doesn't add to the sales - but it can provide a paycheck.

Honestly, if you put that money/attention into marketing/sales - you would make 100x more money.

Steve, if you're sending to hosts make sure that you go upstream. Hosts' Host and so on. The larger companies tend to be have much more responsive legal departments.

A host will often react very differently when their provider calls them about a DMCA notice that they got.

It did make me feel there was a sudden burst of being childish coming through rather than a sensible adult. Hard to take anyone serious that threatens to fly around the world hurting people.

Jay and Silent Bob did it, why couldn't Steve do it?

On a serious note, this guy is fighting for his business and you are all nit-picking a quirky comeback? I think any real webmaster should look beyond the pettiness and take pride in the fact that at least one of us is doing something. It may not lead to much, but its a start.

What will the douchebags around here do? Re-enable Eurorevenue links or promote exclusive Lightspeed pr0n?

Good luck Steve. I would have participated in your group had I been contacted about it. Wish you nothing but success with it.

Also,it would be good to open mail like [email protected] where affiliates would be able to report piracy links when founded.

tubes invented type-in traffic.

I didn't approve of your step 1, but this step I'm 2000% behind and I think this actually helps to fight piracy and improves conversions for you and your affiliates, speaking of hope in the future LSC will become more active again

Best of luck, lets see how it goes!

well there ya go.