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Originally Posted by wankawonk
1. It's very, very illegal to provide a platform where anonymous people can profit off of stolen content. So you need to know who people are and have their tax info and shit before you can allow them to profit off of ad space on your website.
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Hi wankawonk.
Very good post. I agree that OP's setup is really problematic.
But I'm unclear about this point... Is it indeed "very, very illegal" if the anonymous uploader assumes/claims the banner ad spots by inserting his own affiliate code?
I could see that if the website owner was paying the uploader directly for posting the stolen content... yeah, sure. Illegal as fuck. And if the website owner is paying the uploader directly, then yeah, he'd need tax info, etc.
But in the OP's case, it's somewhat like a Free Host arrangement. OP is hosting the video and the banner ads for free. All the monetary agreements are actually between the uploader and his own sponsor(s). So I don't see why OP would need to be involved with that.
Am I mistaken?
Having said that... if OP aims to proceed, he'd better have a quick and easy DMCA/removal process or he's going to have problems with his own web host.