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Originally Posted by DWB
The concept of all of this is BRILLIANT and exciting. It's just the players involved that put a really bad taste in my mouth. I don't trust any of them.
Care to take a stab at how we all got in this mess in the first place? I'd call that an insanely ballsy move. These guys have built their entire empire based on theft and a lot of balls.
At this stage it's a little like trying to trust your uncle you molested you as a kid. And no matter how much you think he's reformed, you would never allow him to babysit your own child even with supervision.
This also brings up the trust factor for FSC. Besides COPPA, they really don't have a track record of succeeding at anything they do. Not to mention, there is nothing stopping them from changing how this all operates as their organization dies due to a natural decline in supporters due to more and more companies going out of business and the DVD giants closing shop, who are almost all supporting them currently.
Their current price rate will change once they get a lot of people on board. You can bet your ass on that. And then "free" is going to end up costing you a whole lot of money if you want to continue their service. It's a typical protection racket scheme.
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DWB, I just have to ask what are your solutions? "I'm not sure I can trust them." and "what if the pricing structure changes?" are all just speculation and by not trusting and by speculating, it doesn't change anything for the better.
In the mean time, I've just gone over some results that we've seen first hand with the technology. We've seen a large reduction of infringement of our content on some of the major tubes and for less effort than it would have taken to manually scan those sites and send DMCA's to these tubes. In addition, we've been able to get our brand out there and generate some revenue from it.
No one loves the fact that adult tubes or other piracy sites exist, but skepticism won't make them go away or lead them to act responsibly. On the other hand, a strong combination of legal strategy and technology can lead things in the right direction. The adult industry actually has even better positioning than our mainstream counterparts when it comes to encouraging responsibility. It just takes more and more companies to understand that position and lead things in the right direction.
As a side note, for anyone intimidated by getting the finger prints done or concerned they don't have the resources, feel free to hit me up as I'm aware of a very reputable company offering to do this for some of their clients (they just aren't ready to publicly announce).