Biggy

I disagree.. How many quality content producers are left? 100?

More like 10. Go to his best of section, it's easy to see what people like... Why do people visit tubes? CONTENT. The newest shit, put out by maybe the top 10-20 studios, in full length form. That DVD content from 5-8 years ago is pretty aged by this point... I wouldn't jerk it to the content I helped to create 8 years ago - that shit sucks now. Yeah, it's great filler, but its not flooding the best of section... and a lot of the content producers are much smarter than they were 8 years ago with registering their copyrights, being protective about their content, not just allowing it to be a free for all. If he didn't care, then why have a content partner program to begin with?

It's not hard to be a good actor. It won't affect his site except he'll look good and have everyone on board to submit good content, wouldn't even affect his bottom line and he would have one less major headache if he continues down the current path. In the meanwhile, he's forcing rules on content holders, while allowing rampant piracy, and basically signaling he doesn't care. I think it's sloppy. Just last week they accidentally emailed their entire advertiser base out without using a BCC so now everyone has the emails on everyone else who is buying ads there, there were maybe 100 emails on that list, I think that speaks about the overall carelessness that's going on over there and the corners that are being cut, particularly with the copyright laws. I conveniently got an email today from Reporo saying they noticed I was buying ads on the site, go figure. I wonder if I am the only one whose ads they recognized :/

There's a 5 day lag in sending in a DMCA and having it removed. Almost all other sites do it instantly. It's easy to set up an API to remove it. He used to do it a lot faster, until he started getting hit more for it, or at least that is how it's coming across. The slowdown in removal has been documented among other things. It looks like he has no repeat infringer policy in place either, there's users having a total free for all uploading hundreds if not thousands of pirated videos.

If he's concerned about content removal, there's small things he can be doing to show he wants to work with content producers vs against them. Without that, I'd think content owners would happily forgo his site and DMCA everything on it, while finding the holes in his content policies that clearly encourage piracy. Google is a great place to DMCA these days when owners don't want to respond in a timely manner.