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Originally Posted by Zorgman
Crockett, you will find that most sponsors "do give a fuck" they just will not speak out about it publicly on a forum as they might do business with other sponsors that do support content theft in another form and don't want to lose out on that business.
I'm very much against content theft. It's sad to see a few bad apples here.
Don't think of it as competing against the illegal tube sites, think of it as you don't want that SHIT traffic anyway. Go for SE traffic.
Would you rather 4,000,000 surfers a month using up tons of bandwidth and making 10% after expenses, OR 400,000 surfers a month and making 50%-80% income after expenses.
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The problem is.. I'm not even talking about illegal tube sites. I'm talking about sites using your script as well as others. Look at the sites you have listed at your script site.
There is only 1 that has no other adds than the sponsor add on the "video page" and that's just the text add. There there are 2 others that have matching sponsor banners for the video however the video page also has other sponsors promo's.
The rest of them use the content and have the simple standard text link yet all the other adds, which are in the most prevalent spots are for their main one or two sponsors. Sites like this cater to the current trend of using free content to promote other sites.
The problem with this trend as I posted above, is these guys don't give a fuck if they make sales to the sponsor they get the content from. They are using the free content to pull surfers so they can push the main sponsors. Sorry but that's BS and as a legit affiliate I shouldn't have to compete with that.
Not to mention there is 20 other videos from the same site on the same video page. So it really gives the surfer no motivation to sign up to the sponsor who has their videos all over even a "legal" tube site.
Don't take this as a bash against you personally. I understand you saw a opportunity to make some money with a script and took it. The problem is, it pisses me off that 90% of the programs out here don't seem to give a shit publicly about this.
If these types of sites (babelogs included) had to worry about conversions to the sites they are getting the free content from. I bet you they would do things a bit different. You can damn sure bet on that.
The point of this thread, is I'm pleading with the sponsors to do something about this shit. Now is the time to fucking put a stop to this.. protecting your content and other legit affiliates. Make some fucking rules and enforce them, stopping affiliates from putting 20 different adds to other competing programs on the gallery pages.
After Shock Media has the right idea and is basiclly what I'm talking about.. Why can't the rest of the programs wake the fuck up and see you are pissing in your own drinking water.