If I'm right, this means if they get DMCA for 3 videos from an account with dozens or hundreds of stolen videos: they will ban the account, all its videos and the IP, etc etc..
In my book this is a fucking awesome step!
This is probably causing legitimate uploaders [content owners] to gain more traffic to their videos/channels/sites. Which Is Sweet
Hopefully this is a Huge step towards the motherfuckers who are using xvideos to make money from stealing / rewatermarking content illegally, and at the same time bad news for CrakRevenue and similar programs who are the recommended money-making-machines on blackhatworld and such sites where these methods were popular.
"May 10, 2016 update : from now on, accounts that reached a total of 100 videos that were infringing copyrights will be banned (profile deleted, IP + email) and all their uploads deleted. We may apply this rule retroactively to certain accounts. Additionally, users that are found using multiple accounts may get banned at any time without any other reason.
3 strikes policy: at third strike a repeat infringer is banned.
Although we are not a United States company, and thus not subject to U.S. or Canadian law, we have adopted policies in an effort to voluntarily comply with anti-infringement laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and the Copyright Modernization Act ("CMA"). Pursuant to such policies, we assert safe harbor for liability related to the alleged copyright infringement committed by third parties. Through implementation and enforcement of such policies, we engage in a good faith effort to identify users or account holders who may be participating in repeated copyright infringement. Therefore, we will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of users who we believe, in our sole and absolute discretion, are repeat copyright infringers, pursuant to our voluntary compliance of laws like the DMCA and CMA.
Our "3 strikes" repeat infringement policy is implemented as follows If one or more uploads occur after receipt of notice of a first infringement, uploaders are then given 2 chances to stop uploading videos or other content infringing third party's copyrights. This means that if an uploader has 3 videos deleted with a first notice he will not immediately be banned from xvideos; instead he will be given a chance to change his behavior, as this will count as 1 strike and not 3. Each notice is treated as a single notice for purposes of repeat infringement, regardless of the number of notices contained in a given notification. There would be little to no pedagogy in our repeat infringers policy if the process was to ban this user immediately. However, in certain circumstances, at our sole discretion, we may ban and delete a user after a single notice or two.
By your use of our Website, you thereby acknowledge and agree with our policy that you are a repeat copyright infringer upon our receipt of 3 or more notices of repeated alleged infringement, as defined above, where (i) the notices are directed towards materials that you have submitted for publication on the Website; (ii) the notices do not concern what We reasonably believe to be "fair use" of copyrightable material as determined within our discretion; and (iii) you have failed to, within 5 days after our forwarding the notice to you, provide us with a proper counter-notice that complies in every respect with the requirements set forth in Section 4 of our Terms of Service, thus permitting us to re-enable all of the materials cited in the original notice of alleged infringement.
Each such notice of repeated copyright infringement, as defined above on this page, for which you do not provide a valid counter-notice pursuant to the requirements set forth in Section 4 of our Terms of Service, shall be recorded against your user account. In the event that you accumulate three (3) such strikes, your account will be suspended, your email banned, and all your IP addresses blocked for 6 months (we cannot block them longer as IP's are used by legitimate users as well). Copyright-owners should provide a list of all infringing videos if they wish deleted. Users terminated for repeat infringement must not sign up for new accounts on our website."
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In my book this is a fucking awesome step!
This is probably causing legitimate uploaders [content owners] to gain more traffic to their videos/channels/sites. Which Is Sweet
Hopefully this is a Huge step towards the motherfuckers who are using xvideos to make money from stealing / rewatermarking content illegally, and at the same time bad news for CrakRevenue and similar programs who are the recommended money-making-machines on blackhatworld and such sites where these methods were popular.
"May 10, 2016 update : from now on, accounts that reached a total of 100 videos that were infringing copyrights will be banned (profile deleted, IP + email) and all their uploads deleted. We may apply this rule retroactively to certain accounts. Additionally, users that are found using multiple accounts may get banned at any time without any other reason.
3 strikes policy: at third strike a repeat infringer is banned.
Although we are not a United States company, and thus not subject to U.S. or Canadian law, we have adopted policies in an effort to voluntarily comply with anti-infringement laws such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act ("DMCA") and the Copyright Modernization Act ("CMA"). Pursuant to such policies, we assert safe harbor for liability related to the alleged copyright infringement committed by third parties. Through implementation and enforcement of such policies, we engage in a good faith effort to identify users or account holders who may be participating in repeated copyright infringement. Therefore, we will, in appropriate circumstances, terminate the accounts of users who we believe, in our sole and absolute discretion, are repeat copyright infringers, pursuant to our voluntary compliance of laws like the DMCA and CMA.
Our "3 strikes" repeat infringement policy is implemented as follows If one or more uploads occur after receipt of notice of a first infringement, uploaders are then given 2 chances to stop uploading videos or other content infringing third party's copyrights. This means that if an uploader has 3 videos deleted with a first notice he will not immediately be banned from xvideos; instead he will be given a chance to change his behavior, as this will count as 1 strike and not 3. Each notice is treated as a single notice for purposes of repeat infringement, regardless of the number of notices contained in a given notification. There would be little to no pedagogy in our repeat infringers policy if the process was to ban this user immediately. However, in certain circumstances, at our sole discretion, we may ban and delete a user after a single notice or two.
By your use of our Website, you thereby acknowledge and agree with our policy that you are a repeat copyright infringer upon our receipt of 3 or more notices of repeated alleged infringement, as defined above, where (i) the notices are directed towards materials that you have submitted for publication on the Website; (ii) the notices do not concern what We reasonably believe to be "fair use" of copyrightable material as determined within our discretion; and (iii) you have failed to, within 5 days after our forwarding the notice to you, provide us with a proper counter-notice that complies in every respect with the requirements set forth in Section 4 of our Terms of Service, thus permitting us to re-enable all of the materials cited in the original notice of alleged infringement.
Each such notice of repeated copyright infringement, as defined above on this page, for which you do not provide a valid counter-notice pursuant to the requirements set forth in Section 4 of our Terms of Service, shall be recorded against your user account. In the event that you accumulate three (3) such strikes, your account will be suspended, your email banned, and all your IP addresses blocked for 6 months (we cannot block them longer as IP's are used by legitimate users as well). Copyright-owners should provide a list of all infringing videos if they wish deleted. Users terminated for repeat infringement must not sign up for new accounts on our website."
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