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Shap · 02-17-2008, 08:31 AM

I thought I'd start this thread because my main message got completely lost and twisted. So here is a summary of what I've been trying to say about the RedTube situation.

I've tried fighting content theft for the past 7 years. I'm not good at it. From boards, babeblogs, rapdishare, megaupload and now to tube sites. I've had no success whatsoever. I'm great at making money but horrible and policing the web. Not only have I had no success but I also see company after company making money off my stolen content. Namely AFF. I can't explain how frustrating it is. I think we spent somewhere between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000 on content production last year alone. Spending that type of money on content and seeing it raped to no end drives me insane. With such little success in policing it RedTube came to us with the offer at the right time. They came to us and offered to not allow any stolen Twistys content to be posted and they would limit the clips to Twistys posted to 2 minutes max. Now you can sit back and give me shit for agreeing to it but the truth is nobody in this industry has done anything to help us in our fight against content theft and in my opinion if I could scratch RedTube off my list as a site stealing content that was a huge plus.

For those calling me an idiot for starting the thread. I only started it because for the past week there were multiple posts saying they wish Twistys would comment on it. So I did. I didn't start the thread for praise. I'm not an idiot. I knew it was going to upset some people. I just wanted to set the record straight. I've always been upfront and outspoken. I wasn't going to change now just because the message I had to deliver wasn't going to be popular.

02-17-2008, 08:31 AM
Shap Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Posts: 8,313	Summary of our Red Tube Thread I thought I'd start this thread because my main message got completely lost and twisted. So here is a summary of what I've been trying to say about the RedTube situation. I've tried fighting content theft for the past 7 years. I'm not good at it. From boards, babeblogs, rapdishare, megaupload and now to tube sites. I've had no success whatsoever. I'm great at making money but horrible and policing the web. Not only have I had no success but I also see company after company making money off my stolen content. Namely AFF. I can't explain how frustrating it is. I think we spent somewhere between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000 on content production last year alone. Spending that type of money on content and seeing it raped to no end drives me insane. With such little success in policing it RedTube came to us with the offer at the right time. They came to us and offered to not allow any stolen Twistys content to be posted and they would limit the clips to Twistys posted to 2 minutes max. Now you can sit back and give me shit for agreeing to it but the truth is nobody in this industry has done anything to help us in our fight against content theft and in my opinion if I could scratch RedTube off my list as a site stealing content that was a huge plus. For those calling me an idiot for starting the thread. I only started it because for the past week there were multiple posts saying they wish Twistys would comment on it. So I did. I didn't start the thread for praise. I'm not an idiot. I knew it was going to upset some people. I just wanted to set the record straight. I've always been upfront and outspoken. I wasn't going to change now just because the message I had to deliver wasn't going to be popular.