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Originally Posted by gideongallery
i think ip rights (whether it be code, pictures, videos etc)should be respected
what i think is really stupid is when content producer choose not to use the notification procedures of the DMCA and then bitch and whine like a child about their content getting stolen.
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I'll tell you whats worse. Is when a sponsor is informed of an affiliate stealing content and then insists on the content owner jumping through all the hoops of a DMCA. When the stolen content has the owners watermark on it. Or the content was clearly flay bed scanned out of a magazine. And when when you catch a same sponsor taking traffic from the same affiliate again and again with stolen content.
Yes those things happened.
I was a full member of APIC and some of todays biggest guys were stealing content or supporting those who did. Some of them even walk up to me at shows and with a smirk tell me they were stealing my content.c They don't offer to pay for it.
Now we are under threat from someone stealing from us, now it's a crime. The culprit has become the victim.
The saying "people in glass houses etc." comes to mind.