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Originally Posted by mattz
dmca protected
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From the article, which you obviously didn't read.
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According to Webb, charging for access to the videos submitted by other users sets GLBT Ltd.'s websites apart from most other so-called "tube sites" - and Webb said Titan counsel Gill Sperlein believes the distinction disqualifies GLBT Ltd. from protection under ISP safe-harbor provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
GayForIt offers a "free seven-day account that requires you upload content, but then up-charges $29.95 for full-access memberships," Webb said. "The site ... clearly is not a service provider as defined by the DMCA. They do not qualify for DMCA safe harbor protection and are fully liable for all the content on their website."
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Titan also has a history of going after the actual uploaders (probably the "25 unknown others" in the article), something nobody else in adult does.
Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) had a problem with that in 2003 when he said:
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At Wednesday's hearing, Brownback noted that adult content provider Titan Media filed a subpoena in July to get names of 59 SBC subscribers suspected of trading Titan's adult content on peer-to-peer services.
"I support strong protections of intellectual property, but I cannot in good conscience support any tool such as the DMCA information subpoena that can be used by pornographers, and potentially even more distasteful actors, to collect the identifying information of Americans, especially children," Brownback said.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/11253...a_tactics.html
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Normally I'm on the side of "web 2.0" sites and want to see only the surfers who uploaded it sued, but just look at these sites...... they are requiring surfers to upload two 5+ minute videos and pretty much all of it looks like professional porn. A legit tube site is either all hand picked by the webmaster, or all homemade amateur uploads with little infringements. The company behind these sites here deserves to be sued.