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Originally Posted by Triple 6
Thats the problem. You keep looking at 'technology' as methods of stealing.
No, no, no.
OK fine, you can call it what you want, but the root of it... well Its all about DISTRIBUTION methods and mediums, which go hand in hand with security and protecting your shit. If the infringers have new ways to distribute your content, then you need to find new ways to distribute your content while at the same time protecting it. Up the fuckin ante.
There will ALWAYS be copyright infringers. Whether its porn, music, hollywood movies, etc. Your C&D's will only get you so far, as far as your own country is concerned.. dont bother sending any to Russia or China, they will wipe their asses with it.
Its all in the distribution methods. Make it harder for those that infringe to take your shit. Do I have to spell it out? lol.
Am I going to give all my own ideas here away? Fuck no. Im just trying to get more people to see the big picture.
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Im aware of your point. I always watermark 99% of my content and expect, to some degree hope, that our images we put out on free hosted galleries and the like get out there and seen.
But, to alot of the more popular sites, we are talking about entire membership areas being sucked up, reformatted, and offered up in variuos formats.
To the surfer... hey, thats a great deal.
Most of us arent talking about the free shit thats on their servers. Its the entire members areas, full length movies, that are being uploaded.
I think alot of people have content from other peoples sites in their members areas for upsales. Thats not a big deal.
The line is crossed when you arent upselling with the content, and its content not approved for promotional use that lines their content database.
I dont have a problem with their technology.
But there is a thin line here.
Lets say, they, or another site like them, hire people to go into members areas, suck up the content, upload it to newsgroups, then use their software to grab it from the newsgroups and sell memberships to it.
Now im not saying that they are doing that, but they know very well there is a ton of stolen content on there.
watermarking helps, but not when all of your watermarked content has been stolen and posted on newsgroups.