Smokey, if you offered EXACTLY the same services as Geocities (webpages) and had a staff like they do to check violations and close down sites, you would likely be in the clear.
However, I looked at your program here, and essentially what you are doing is taking videos, watermarking them, attaching a clickable link, and then hoping people will post them into blogs or onto webpages, giving you tons of free links in return for the bandwidth used.
Geocities doesn't just host images, they host websites. They don't watermark images, they don't play with the content. You are intending to reformat and represent the content. Even with autoamted tools (ie, you don't manually do the work yourself) you are violating copyright because you are redistributing without a license.
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ou seem to follow the sheep mentality that its ok that the big sites do it but not when i do it smarter lol
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Not at all. Please note the very large lawsuits against Youtube. Please note Falcon Foto's recent settlement regarding copyright violations. Just because you came up with a techie nice way to do the deed doesn't make you less guilty of violating the copyright.
I long since figured out you are very smart, but with this one, you are dancing on the head of a pin. After all, where does the content come from that you will be allowing other people to use?