»Rob Content«

2257 and tubes don't really mesh, and 95% of tube sites that are illegal are not USA based, so 2257 does not apply to them.

2ish years ago when I was going after tubes hardcore I dealt with some large lawyers and had extensive conversations with the FBI and they had zero interest in 2257 laws as it applied to sites like that.

They want to take down the big producers, nothing more then that.

The main tube sites, megarotic, redtube, and etc the large ones mainly do all of the uploads of stolen content them self. I know of a few that has in house staff that just does that as a full time job. Going after the end users is going to be a road to no where. We already looked into this ages ago with Airek and the anti piracy group, all roads lead to no where.

There are ways to fight it, but this is not the way.

Legals battles of this stature if you actually get it to court, and IF one day you win won't do much. Sure you "could" get a judgment against the pirate, but good luck collecting anything. The MAIN reason and I know this from fact in discussions with a lot of the top companies out there they don't go the legal route as it just would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and have no significant return.

I also know for fact from one of the largest programs here during a discussion with them said in their research it would cost 350k just to get set up to get into court.. Then the real money comes into play. The cost of an actual legal team to fight the battle in court for months would far surpass that, and the end result would not really have an financial gain.

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