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RawAlex · 03-02-2006, 08:08 AM

mrthumbs, I have said it in other threads and I will say it here: Guba comes back and I take the door.

The reason isn't as obvious as you think.

GUBA by it's nature is a surfer oriented system to theivery, that steals from each and every one of us. The continued existance of the USENET is bad enough in and of itself (the original P2P file trading system?) but to encourage companies to extract, filter, organize, and resell that stolen content is really not a very good idea.

It probably ain't bad for the surfers, but it sure is bad for the porn business. All the content from so many members sites for $14.95 a month. Yup. Got it. You can sell shit cheap when you don't have any overhead on the content production side.

It puts this board into few ugly lights that are just not very good for any adult webmaster.

First, GUBA has a business model that is 100% diameterically opposed to business models of honest webmasters running membership sites and the free sites / galleries that promote those membership sites.

Second, GUBA knowingly uses stolen, purloined, or borrowed content without legal right, without producer documents, and without model releases of any sort. You don't have to go far to find any number of legal issues that face our industry. The new 2257 rules alone make this site illegal as all get out (they cannot prove who the primary producer is, therefore they have no way to prove model age, which puts them in serious shit for hardcore images).

Thirdly, GUBA as a skin appeals mostly to the surfers and the pirate types around here who would gladly steal from their mothers so they would have enough money to rent a ho or put dubs on their four door honda civic.

GFY accepting advertising from companies such as GUBA would clearly indicate that they are not supporting the legal and honest webmaster community, but rather playing to whoever shows up at the door with a check and skin, regardless of the effect that these programs would have on honest webmasters.

It is what it is. If and when that time comes again, we can all vote with our feet.

Alex

03-02-2006, 08:08 AM
RawAlex So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: In a house. Posts: 9,465	mrthumbs, I have said it in other threads and I will say it here: Guba comes back and I take the door. The reason isn't as obvious as you think. GUBA by it's nature is a surfer oriented system to theivery, that steals from each and every one of us. The continued existance of the USENET is bad enough in and of itself (the original P2P file trading system?) but to encourage companies to extract, filter, organize, and resell that stolen content is really not a very good idea. It probably ain't bad for the surfers, but it sure is bad for the porn business. All the content from so many members sites for $14.95 a month. Yup. Got it. You can sell shit cheap when you don't have any overhead on the content production side. It puts this board into few ugly lights that are just not very good for any adult webmaster. First, GUBA has a business model that is 100% diameterically opposed to business models of honest webmasters running membership sites and the free sites / galleries that promote those membership sites. Second, GUBA knowingly uses stolen, purloined, or borrowed content without legal right, without producer documents, and without model releases of any sort. You don't have to go far to find any number of legal issues that face our industry. The new 2257 rules alone make this site illegal as all get out (they cannot prove who the primary producer is, therefore they have no way to prove model age, which puts them in serious shit for hardcore images). Thirdly, GUBA as a skin appeals mostly to the surfers and the pirate types around here who would gladly steal from their mothers so they would have enough money to rent a ho or put dubs on their four door honda civic. GFY accepting advertising from companies such as GUBA would clearly indicate that they are not supporting the legal and honest webmaster community, but rather playing to whoever shows up at the door with a check and skin, regardless of the effect that these programs would have on honest webmasters. It is what it is. If and when that time comes again, we can all vote with our feet. Alex