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Thanks RawAlex for the call last night.
I enjoyed our lively discussion and appreciate your professionalism.
D$- As always- Great show! Thanks for bring The Players Ball back to Internext again. Sushi dinner felt just like old times.
KimJI- My email works for everyone else that's made the effort so I'm not sure what the issue is.
RawAlex thought it was important enough to pick up the phone and I think we came to relatively mutual understanding.
AGAIN, neither company owns any part of the other. We have oversight of AVNads.com and can request that sites are removed if we choose to do so.
Adbrite acts independently of AVNads. If they chose to keep a site then that's their decision.
Do you understand the Private Label concept? In an example that gave to RawAlex I said think of it as if i have XYZvod.com which is a white label of Gamelink. And on my site I want certain content removed that I or my clients feel is objectionable. Gamelink accomodates this request but choses to keep it on their site. Am I then responsible for that content on their site?
In another point I made, I said let's look at who's buying traffic on these torrent sites. Are they not as much to blame as the torrent sites themselves?
If no one buys the traffic then sites would cease to exist? Shouldn't webmasters band together to agree not to support these kinds of sites?
I did make the promise to RawAlex to contact Philip Kaplan personally to discuss this issue.
Who here who is upset about Adbrite's practices and has sent a formal complaint letter? I'd be happy to look at them and re-send out their behalf.
AVN has taken steps to remove sites which appear to be pirating content.
Yes Adbrite choses to take these sites as publishers. AVN can and has recommended that they reconsider accepting these types of sites.
As I said I will discuss it with Philip but its incumbent upon the community to look at all aspects of the situation.
I'm open to discussing this on internet radio (if D$ wants to facilitate it, I'd be happy to participate).
I also told Alex that we'll look to January's Internext to create a panel which would focus on piracy and that we'd be glad to have him participate.
Again, let me say thanks to everyone that came to Internext and feel free to contact me if you need anything.
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