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Originally Posted by SomeCreep
At this point, if content producers do not continue to upload their videos, webmasters will simply steal their videos, chop off the watermark, and put their own watermark promoting dating sites, cams, etc. So might as well have surfers see your brand first, instead of being amazed by some new content you didn't upload, that some webmaster from India uploaded with his watermark to a cam site.
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Wrong again. This does happen. And we always hold the people they are promoting accountable and they cooperate with us, terminate the accounts, etc. If they didn't they could be held liable as well once they have the information. Those efforts are pretty fruitless for both the affiliates and the companies. It's typically some idiot in a 3rd world making $20-$100. It's definitely not worth the company's hassle to get stuck in the cross-fire and be actively continue the relationship on piracy. And for the affiliate, I guess it depends on how poor they are.
Once you're targetted, you cannot bury your head in the sand on piracy, especially if you are targetted by a large group of content producers, who have resources.
Content owners are not as defeated as you think they are. We have collected north of $1m in infringement enforcement (before legal fees). It's not a wild west, we just aren't publicizing it. We're privately teaching people lessons. We've been registering all of our copyrights for years now. You know what happens when we find someone willfully blind, and their DMCA cover is blown? Potentially up to $150,000 per infringement in damages. Still think piracy pays?