Nadia,
First, I apologize for responding to you on a public forum. You see, I think the right way to handle something like this with someone that you've had a relationship with for YEARS, with someone who has sent YOU tons of traffic for FREE, would be to handle it one on one. What's my ICQ? Perhaps you should check your ICQ logs. My ICQ logs have conversations between the two of us going back to early 2003.
Or perhaps you should look at my responses to all the emails we've bounced back and forth. ALL my contact information is in my sig. If the shoes were reversed I would have called you on the phone instead of freaking out on a board. I guess we just do business differently.
For me, I would have a little more RESPECT toward a company that had run several THOUSANDS of dollars worth of free Video Sponsorships for me! But again, I guess we just do business differently.
I personally wouldn't treat anyone who had gone out of their way to help me like you have. If I approached someone asking about buying traffic, then found out I couldn't afford it, and then that someone GAVE me traffic because they liked my site/content I DAMN sure wouldn't behave this way because I don't like to burn my bridges, ESPECIALLY with someone who has tried so hard to help me. I guess we just do business differently.
Now, to the issue at hand. Your own popularity is to blame. Tough problem to have. The video WAS submitted to us without your watermark. There is simply no way for us to tell where all the content that gets submitted to us comes from. I agree that it's unlikely any of our fans would download your clip, remove the watermark, and then submit it to us. BUT, just for shits and giggles, lets look at another possibility. Maybe, just maybe, some OTHER website that's less scrupulous than us ganked your content and removed the watermark. Then perhaps one of their fans saw the content and downloaded it and submitted it. This doesn't sound so far-fetched to me. ESPECIALLY when you take into account that I already had a relationship with you, I had already posted your vids on our site AT YOUR REQUEST and turned them into Video Sponsorships that sent you THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS of visitors for FREE!
I see now that you did at least manage to dig out my email address although I can't say I'm thrilled by the tone of your message:
From:
[email protected] [mailto:
[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:48 PM
To: Marc Womack
Subject: Re-Edited our Vid to remove watermark...
Below is the link of OUR VIDEO on your fucking site:
http://www.consumptionjunction.com/c...1&page=1&fav=0
You guys posted our vid, fucking cut out our watermark and re-edited it!!!
You better fucking put up the watermarked version asap, or you'll be hearing from our lawyers.
We don't produce videos to bring traffic to your fucking site without any credit.
Nadia
ParasiteTV Productions
www.parasite.tv
ICQ: 217576223
As others have mentioned in this thread, our removal policy is simple: ask and we do. You could email and say that picture of the fat black midget with only one leg is you and you want us to take it down and we would. It's VERY easy. That's why the video has now been removed and I can assure you that we'll never post anything of yours again. And I mean never. If you hit the lottery and can suddenly afford our ad prices and offer me $100,000 for one Video Sponsorship it's not going to happen. I've repeated several times that we do business differently. I give people the benefit of the doubt and try to help them out whenever I can. BUT, when that kindness is repaid with behavior like yours I will never do any business with them again for any amount of money.
Nadia, on a personal note, we've spoken quite a few times on ICQ and on the phone. I actually considered you a friend. As always, I'm trying my best to remain professional on such a public forum but after such a betrayal, I can't hold back from saying FUCK YOU. Do not EVER contact me or any of my team again. I hope to fuck you don't treat other companies that have tried to HELP you like this. If so, your future in this business is going to be very challenging. We don't forget.
