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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So many questions come up and I partly agree with the "producers only" approach. However;
Any lawyers attending this meeting?
Without some keen legal brains you might be discussing solutions that are not workable. Organising boycotts of sites/sponsors/programs that don't work the way you say they have to might be illegal. Some of the costs are met by advertising. What are the legal implications of suing the advertisers on sites containing stolen content?
Any billing/processing companies attending this meeting?
VG Content has shown one way to combat these sites. They cost money to run and bills have to be met. Some do it by selling a program or cheap access so are you going to be including the processing community in on the discussions?
Some of these sites contain content that seems to be illegal, scat, bestiality, etc. What will be the approach on this front?
Will you be discussing the setting up of a unit to monitor sites stealing content and how will the cost be met?
If such a unit is set up will it only look for content belonging to members of any "association"?
Do you have anyone attending with genuine long term experience in closing down sites with stolen/illegal content?
I applaud your steps and back you 100%. Would love to attend but on the other side of the pond. So will you be having a round table in Europe?
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It's a first meeting.....of many more to follow....so I assume (correct me if I'm wrong here)
it's vital that the content producers as being the top of the food
chain to get their heads together...and come to a joint strategy to move
forward with this.
Once that's achieved it will be taken to the next step and the next and so forth.
To start with a HUGE group of people all representing different parts of the
food chain it will be next to impossible to come to good and working strategy.
Also it's everyone's best interest to keep all the information and especially
the details in our own family. We don't want to make anyone smarter that
doesn't need to be smarter regarding these actions.
So In time more segments of the industry will be included as the process
starts to take shape. No one will be left out but you have to start somewhere
and it's for many reasons best to do it smaller segments to avoid a chaos
of opinions which will lead to NOTHING!
