Adult Friend Finder SUED over RedTube and YouPorn
From their terms: "You hereby represent and warrant to us that materials posted on your site do not violate or infringe upon the rights of any third party (including, for example, copyrights, trademarks, privacy, or other personal or proprietary rights), and that materials posted on your site are not libelous or otherwise illegal."
It is impossible to concieve that AFF is not aware that RedTube, XNXX, and YouPorn contain infringed material.
As far as I understand, allowing some affiliates to participate in the program without adhearing to the Terms and Conditons constitutes unfair business practices.
Also, from what I understood, under the Perfect 10 rulings, if you CC your DMCA to AFF and Twisty's, and they continue to accept traffic from sites that infringe on your content, they become a complicit party to the theft.
HINT: If XNXX, RedTube, or YouPorn are stealing your content, CC their sponsors, because if B pay A to generate signups for B using stolen content, then it is arguable that B might as well steal the content under the guise of being affiliates.
PS - Tube sights aren't going anywhere, but their infringment needs to, boycotting of their traffic due to a violation of basic terms is the same reason Warez, Torrent, Password Stealing sites, and so forth have been banned from affiliate programs for a long time.
Look for an announcement about this in XBiz soon, I thought it was genious when I heard it, shit Shap even publicly announced that he's aware of their infringment but accepts the traffic anyhow. SLAM DUNK.
Plus keep in mind that AFF is now publicly traded, keep an eye on their stock price when word of the lawsuits hit wallstreet.
sry guys can't say who, I've said too much already. ;-)
It is impossible to concieve that AFF is not aware that RedTube, XNXX, and YouPorn contain infringed material.
As far as I understand, allowing some affiliates to participate in the program without adhearing to the Terms and Conditons constitutes unfair business practices.
Also, from what I understood, under the Perfect 10 rulings, if you CC your DMCA to AFF and Twisty's, and they continue to accept traffic from sites that infringe on your content, they become a complicit party to the theft.
HINT: If XNXX, RedTube, or YouPorn are stealing your content, CC their sponsors, because if B pay A to generate signups for B using stolen content, then it is arguable that B might as well steal the content under the guise of being affiliates.
PS - Tube sights aren't going anywhere, but their infringment needs to, boycotting of their traffic due to a violation of basic terms is the same reason Warez, Torrent, Password Stealing sites, and so forth have been banned from affiliate programs for a long time.
Look for an announcement about this in XBiz soon, I thought it was genious when I heard it, shit Shap even publicly announced that he's aware of their infringment but accepts the traffic anyhow. SLAM DUNK.
Plus keep in mind that AFF is now publicly traded, keep an eye on their stock price when word of the lawsuits hit wallstreet.
sry guys can't say who, I've said too much already. ;-)
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