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Originally Posted by Tempest
O.M.G... This is so full of misinformation that it borders on being criminal... Putting your watermark on the video has ZERO to do with protecting it. It's about "BRANDING".. that's a MARKETING term.. You want surfers to remember the name of the site and TYPE IT IN thus gaining the program sales they keep 100% to themselves. And when surfers see a video or pictures on a site that's advertising another site, they will type in the domain thus cutting out the affiliate. Anyone that doesn't believe that is a moron.. Any program saying it doesn't happen or is "minimal" is a blatent liar. Surfers have been trained over the year to know that the content they see on a gallery is NOT what they will necessarily get if they sign up to the program.. Knowing that, they're going to type in the domain to try and ensure they DO get that content.
Here's the kicker.. In order to "protect" their content, programs would be embedding their coywrite in the video themselves when they encode it.. VERY FEW do that.. THAT'S what's required to protect their property, NOT watermarking. Any program that isn't embedding the info in their videos is blatently lieing to you about why they use their branding watermarks.
So if you're an affiliate, then stop being stupid.. Rip the FHGs to your own server and cut out the fucking watermark.. You WILL see an increase in your sales. And if you're smart, you'll use a template system on the galleries so that if the site goes away or the program starts to redirect it, you can make the changes yourself in just minutes.
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we also allow people to submit to tube sites with their own watermarks as long as it generates sales and as long as that url forwards to us. there's also time limit parameters, we obvious limit what can and cant go on a tube in terms of time and have people for us that help enforce that.
you need to lower the emotion level buddy, its not some huge conspiracy theory, its branding. its also protective, so the know where it came from. just today a friend of mine is passing around a deepthroat video via email, thank goodness it has my watermark on there. hmm, its probably unfair of coca cola to brand their product also, that they should return to the same store over and over again to purchase it lol. i dont think anyone can hold us to fault over branding, its essential to long term viability. over time, people remember the brands. -- its not short term, its long term and -- we work with our affiliates.
p.s. thanks for calling me a borderline criminal LOL.