I posted this on another board, a gay webmaster board, I won't post the link, but here's what I stated... it's a board where one of the partners who's nickname is Santeria who partnered who with
www.AdultSeal.com (who are also in big trouble for stolen content) usually posts quite often and has really shocked everyone in the gay market industry that this has happened.
Anyways, here are my posts;
"Sorry to post to another board, but I believe it to be highly relevant and important..
https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/483137-webmaster-warning-prideaccess-com.html [this thread]
I also just got off of the phone with someone who's close with everyone involved, the top site owners, and it was confirmed as well.
The network will likely be down within the week, and anyone who has an archive, I'd strongly suggest taking down your links, because you LIKELY WON'T GET ANY CHECKS.
I'm not stating anything about Santeria, though there is no way he didn't know that 1,000s of gigabytes of content were stolen, unless he didn't actually look at any of the sites.
I don't know what affect this will have on Santeria, but it's fucked up, and not good for him.
I know this is all true, so I'm just wondering what Santeria's response will be, and if he'll stay in the gay market, or the adult market, after doing such a thing. I was about to start a trade with his site as well, I can't anymore though. He certainly could be liable.. When Titan sues they win $20,000 damages PER PICTURE infringement. Damages for what they all stole (including AdultSeal.com which are being gone after as well for a lot of stolen content) will be in the millions.
Just to add, everyone seemed to have great conversions; they likely just wanted everyone to keep sending their traffic.
Matt"
And the last one I made;
"This is the post from GFY that Pistol Media made;
[This was the original thread that Pistol Media posted in this thread, removed it simply to remove the duplication; unneeded]
And by the way, the person I spoke to uses the top law firm in the US, as do most of the other companies, and everything has already been checked out and all of their sites / content has been copied / saved as evidence.
People are going down it seems.
I believe Santeria is only 20 years old. I'm 22 myself, and I've done some stupid things, but never in business, and never anything unethical; yes, I stole chocolate bars when I was 13, but that's a little different.
Santeria is also in the US I believe, where most of the stolen content providers are from, and they will pin this on whoever they can get their hands on. I wonder how 7 companies (plus the undiscovered illegally distributed/unlicensed material from companies) will divide up whatever they can get.
I know ICANN is quite responsive to legal pressure from top US lawyers as well, especially since these lawyers have specialists they go to for all domain related issues, where they could go to court, and have it court ordered that all domains owned and related to the people be taken from them, etc..
This is fucked up. On a jokingly side note, I highly doubt they have any 2257 information... Maybe Santeria's in hiding, or in jail, or in a different country now.
He could have made $100k with the month they were open with all of the top traffic MGP / TGP sites having an archive to promote it.
Did anyone actually get money from them yet?
Matt"
Two people who promoted PrideAccess.com archives posted on the other board so far, and they haven't been paid and they would be two of the bigger promoters (highest traffic), meaning, noone will likely be paid; I could be wrong, but with current situation it doesn't seem like they'd be ethical in that sense; whether Santeria has control over content or the money, which I'm not sure, it is either him or AdultSeal.com who partnered on this 'venture' ... Ugh.. This makes me feel sick to my stomache.
Hope this was informative.
Matt