Originally Posted by CDSmith

Forkbeard, help me reason this out once and for all.

Let's say there's paysite owner A, and he finds his content being displayed on GUBA. Now, considering the fact that GUBA harvested said content, put it up on their own servers, and is now charging money for surfers to view it, probably says to paysite owner A that GUBA is in fact a pay site. Not only that but it says that GUBA is a pay site who is making money off of paysite owner A's content with no direct benefit whatsoever to paysite owner A or his business.

No visible link to his sites, no % of the profits that GUBA makes from said content.

Now, help me out here.... is it really your contention that paysite owner A has no reason to be upset by this? And, can it possibly be true that he has no leg to stand on concerning legal action?

I am having serious trouble believing that.

From where I sit, it looks to me like GUBA gathers the content of others, puts it on their servers and charges people a fee to view it. In short, they charge a fee for surfers to view your content. Fuck me if I'm wrong but a lot of guys back in the late 90's running free babe sites tried this and DIDN'T charge a viewing fee and they were roasted for it. Hell you couldn't spit without hitting a site that had the disclaimer "if any of our content is in violation of your copyright and you want it removed please email us"..... those guys and their sites are long since a thing of the past.

How is it possible that GUBA gets away with it?

It really does seriously appear to me to be a cleverly spun form of theft, period.

I'm interested to read any reply you'd care to give me.

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