Perfect 10 actually DMCA'ed Google (images) for copyright infringement (Norm's got huge stones, damn). I guess all of this is a product of that act.

Perfect 10 has offered to petition Google to "re-enable" all M&B affiliates, so if you're an M&B affiliate, please email me ASAP.

also
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=561808

i dont think its that easy.. google has likely penalized those sites and they wont get their rank back like flipping a switch

Unfortunately, that's probably true.

You don't understand how they get away with it? It's their search engine, they can do what they want, ban who ever they want, with or without reason, there are no "search engine rights".

:2 cents:

They are using dmca complaints to remove listings, when the whole system of "google images" is one giant dmca complaint.

It would be like google owning a nude beach then handing out tickets to certain people for nudity. Sure they can do whatever they want its their search engine.. It doesnt mean i have to accept it or agree with it..

You're wrong. The sites aren't blacklisted. Only the root domain doesn't show but it does still has it's page rank. All other pages like galleries and archives are still there (oh irony also the ones with falsely claimed pictures).

did i say they were blacklisted ?

read closely , what you quoted..

not even true.
sites like thebestporn or celebsdb also have their roots indexed.
this is no banning
everybody stop calling it a banning

we have had 29 sites removed from google and a dozen from yahoo in the last 2 weeks for infringement on the paris hilton sex video - we are also aware that if we wrongfully dmca a site, that we could suffer legally later if the removed site owner pursues legal action.


you have recourse against a dmca filer if it is in error fyi is my point.

50............

OFFERED ? Well isn't that friendly...

correct
If I was storm id sue for loss of income and stuff
he would win the case without a doubt
and its an amount worth fighting for he told me on ICQ (hope its ok to say that here bro)

Trax - I don't know Storm, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't have deep enough pockets to fight Perfect 10.. Perfect 10 LIVES in the courts.

it doesn't take that deep pockets to fight anyone in court. without a doubt P10 is a big fish, but still. He didn't have to do it alone - there were many guys affected by this without a reason
why do you think Norm sent you such a nice mail, being so nice getting the domains off that list?? because he knows he is liable.

When a Google tech sits at his console he has a plethoria of tools infront of him... or her...

But you really don't need them... If you are going to ban/remove people and you don't want to piss someone off who has money to sue you, you can simple write an algorythm to do so...

if ( Delete if # of pics / ((# of times showing up in results * page shown on) * how often all terms resulting in this domain per day) > .45 || TLD = .ru) { ban all } else { ban page }

So if you are thebestporn.com you may have a score of .00456 and if you are a newb that is on the level but not big enough to sue, .50 and you get "banned" outright just so they don't have to deal with you fucking around... As in if they deleted your page you might be a loose cannon and create a tgp on the domain with only the infringing pics...

Honestly dude i can`t sue them by myself. As Big E said i dont have deep enough pockets nor the will to go against this fool alone,but if we (everyone wrongly affected by this) can get organized somehow, if some of the bigger sponsors affected by this steps up, i think we can do something..
Basicly he`s trying to end his competition slowly.If we dont do something i doubt that this will end anytime soon..
We need something like www.fightthispatent.com

Damn our shit got blacklisted too for simply using a girl that Perfect10 once used (Anita Blonde). That's Fucked up. How did you get your domains unblacklisted?

Perfect 10 should take care of that don't you think. He came with some holy story about their crusade for copyright, but failed to explain how so many sites with zero of their content got on the list.