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Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions
How about you calmly get into discussion with AK...
AK isn't a bully, he's just doing a slow, patient thorough sweep to get rid of commercial piracy.
One could argue that you careless because the more users you get, the more clicks you get, the more 10% skim and redirects you get.
Piracy really attracts people and free can still mean big bucks with freeloaders if they just make impressions or clicks...
I don't think you're a bad guy Markul, just see if you can arrange something with AK through peaceful talks. Consider contacting and possibly talking this over when your new service launches: https://copycontrol.org/contact-us/
Good luck with your new service. |
Thank you very much.
Btw we don't skim 10%, but 5% (and right now 0%). Anyways.
He had my e-mail and could have started a productive dialogue as he said he would months ago - that way I might even have had some special reporting tools built for him - but he choose drama because that makes him visible. He steps on people and expect us all to jump to his tune. Not happening.
Besides, I think I've said what needs to be said about AK and his operation. He can throw all the dirt he wants, fact is that our aim is not to harbor pirated or illegal content and when it's properly reported it will be processed (as it has in the past). He also still has to prove what rights owners he represents or what rights he owns, until that happens it's just slander..
Maybe AK should start with Google, that's the source of 99.9% of all piracy anyways. Or focus on what he started out with; File lockers. I don't much care. Why am I even debating this. I'm done with AK and his people.
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Originally Posted by lucas131
till now, everytime i have seen beta, it always meant that you have something in advance, you can try something and then, when they go public, you have some advantage because you jumped on the boat early ... not this time, this is totally another story, people tried their best, and now, bye all the hard work ... very lame, very bad move, very sad ...  |
I know, it makes me very sad as well and this is certainly not something I've chosen to do because I want to. It was never planned. The plan was very different! But it's the only way to create a viable product that can live up to our goals and I think that down the road, people will see that a working service is a whole lot better than something that breaks every time we start to see certain volumes of traffic. The alternative would've have been to just leave it as is (very broken) and never look back and just pay the hosting fees and do a bit of support here and there. Or close it entirely.
We want to do better. We can do better. This is the right move. But I know some people will not be very happy and I understand. That's why we build the export plugin allowing people to export their sites so they don't loose "as much" as if we'd just killed it all.
I should have done more and sooner, I know that, I've been caught up in a lot of things this past year (two legal battles with the ex-wife, a full firemans education in the evening and weekends, opening up new paysites and affiliaite programs and building 8 major mainstream products for customers) and while that's no excuse to do proper project management, it's at least an explanation. Still, just not fucking good enough of me. Piriod
