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Originally Posted by DBS.US
Most guys rather buy them a beer  |
Yeah...that'll teach 'em!
Honestly, I think a lot of people were kinda in shock at first. Couldn't believe it. Nobody blatantly monetized entire members areas that belonged to other people before on this kind of scale to the point that it is driving people out of business.
Used to be if you found your content on someone else's site, a phone call took care of it. And every once in a great while two parties would go to war and go to court.
But never, never anything like finding your stuff on tens of thousands of sites all at the same time and watching your property become worthless to you.
Just talking to a lot of people at shows over the last couple of years, a LOT of them were blissfully unaware of what was happening. And others didn't think it was a big deal...
I remember talking to my buddy Mark at the XBIZ show in the summer of 2007. I had for the first time seen our stuff being stolen everywhere (we opened CM's site in May that year).
So I asked him: "What are you guys at Naughty America doing about this for your content? I'm seeing it everywhere and I'm noticing that my sales to you guys are not good anymore"
He told me: "We're not worried about it, it's free advertising!"
A year later he was no longer with Naughty America.
It's only the last year or so that the majority of folks started realizing what was really happening. And now that they are FINALLY waking up, they are starting the process of doing something about it.
Hopefully no more buying the thieves beers and taking pictures together.