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Originally Posted by Matt 26z
The backbone of this project is your idea of volunteer labor. I don't know as if the common webmaster is going to "scour the net" as you put it, in an effort to combat the stolen content of sites doing maybe millions a year in revenue. The feeling might be that they should hire their own people to protect their own copyrights.
So you'll have all this extra subscriber revenue, which will be used to sue infringers. Are you going to play Spin The Wheel at a show to decide which lucky subscriber gets all that cash to sue with? Certainly everybody will want that money.
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First off volunteer labor would be for the start up stuff not the constant checking. That would be done by paid outsourcers. You know volunteer stuff would be the initial programing, possibly some hosting or site security, etc.
As for legal payouts there would be no spin the wheel type mentality. Any site sued and if the case is won, all participating members who had material on that site would equally benefit assuming cash could be collected. Winning is far from collecting. Most of us just want the content actually protected and this would show offenders that it has teeth.
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Originally Posted by mrkrabs
That all is a really nice idea, but I'm afraid that you only waste your time with that. Would be great if not, but I doubt it.
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It is a lot better than doing nothing and loosing money.
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Originally Posted by ScrivenerGrl
After someone marks content as a violation, who is going to confirm it is not someone trying to hurt a competitor?
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The DMCA process can obtain that objective. Then if it is a repeat offender and the site does not ban the offender then court action could be implemented. Now unless some company is willing to litterally set up almost an entire site with sponsors ads on it and then fill it with infringing content owned by a competitor to try to take them out is almost a silly proposition. We are not talking about every single little small site out there. We are talking about the larger ones with hundreds of thousand to millions of users.