dam she is hot, please tell me she did boy girl

I see pics from stunners.com in the erotic section of Vegas craigslist all the time. They are used for the good ol' bait and switch. It would be great if the content owners would go after those agencies as well.

no, i sure don't and I am glad I don't because I probably would be looking for a different line of work. The current Tubes are ruining the business.

I don't think it's right but people here seem to send AFF and Brazers a ton of traffic and both of them have fucked our industry. People support Nats and the owner of it was involved in the whole Porngraph deal but I guess people forget? Or megapornbucks caught shaving so they release a new program and continue on (Sexbankroll is the new company). Dirty Xsales etc.

I can go on and on about different companies.

This thread is snowballing.

LOL, they're getting what's due, finally.

So as well as bombarding ever site owner out there with spam emails every single damn day, they are blatant thieves too. I've had over 300 emails from them this year from their auto link script.

Shame they are ranking so well in google - perhaps a few (more) people would like to file some Spam reports to google, I'm sure that would hit them where it hurts.

RBGWebGroup

Hi,

My name is blah blah, and i represent the adult dating sites SexDatePersonals.com and HornyMatches.com.

We took a look at your site www.******.com- recently and are interested in a link exchange.with your(s) site(s).

Our offer is actually quite interesting, a 3 way link as opposed to a reciprocal link. You link to HornyMatches.com and we link to you on SexDatePersonals.com. We offer the best type of link exchange.
Also, SexDatePersonals.com has a very nice directory that we have been building so you are sure to find a category there for your site. If not, please just make your suggestion to us.

Here our link info:

Free Adult Personals [hyperlink]
www.hornymatches.com [website address]
Free Adult Personals [description]

Or our html as well
Free Adult PersonalsFree Adult Personals

Have a great day and i hope that we can do business with you in the very near future,

Regards.

HornyMatches.com
Sexdatepersonals.com

:321GFY

Just an update for you guys....

I talked to one of the owners of HornyMatches and was assured that big changes were in the works. I was told that all promo pieces with content that they couldn't find a license for would be replaced within 7 days. A fee was paid for the usage of my work without a license. And, I was told that they would be in contact with Shap immediately to resolve their unlicensed content usage with him. All in all, it was a very productive discussion and I feel confident that they are on the road to making things right for anyone who has been done wrong by them.

Thanks to everyone who offered their support!

-Dean

So I guess they wil have no promo content left.

This isn't about a comparison of who's the worst.

Fact remains, theft is theft - and being dismissive of it because someone else is worse is ridiculously misguided.

if a sponsor fixes it after being called out, do they become "stand up" again? :1orglaugh

where there is smoke there is fire ...

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Reputation forever tarnished.

you need a better site

you people crack me up. hornymatches.com is a $29.00 template from 1999 (which i know for a fact because i bought and have on a hard drive) that still has the same images etc as it did when they bought it and people are shocked they are lazy and taking shortcuts.

uh, that makes it ok? Are you fucking retarded?

you're not the most intelligent person on the board and i could definately waste some time breaking down what i was saying so even you could understand it.. but i won't.

i'll just try saying the same thing a different way and hope for the best.

they're obviously lazy and incompetent and don't care about glaring details that any normal human being would, so it should not come as a surprise that they have no issues stealing

Okay, now that is funny.

Dean, Good to see you made some headway with this issue. Lets just hope they follow through and do what they assured you they would do.

And a bump for Shap.

Why do you have issues with the fact it's a template? It converts better than any other designs we tried - maybe because it actually looks amateur. Do you really think we cannot afford a better design? :) We have whitelabels with great designs all over the place.

It must probably be the template that brought in the most $$ in the history of templatemonster :)

It's also very easy to call someone lazy/insult them, especially if you don't know what's going on behind the scenes. You think you can just go from rags to riches without growing pains? Welcome to the real life.

it's odd that this is the post you decide to reply to.

anarchy> why are all these images that belong to others on your site? Can you answer that here?

good on you dean .. looks like to hit the nail on the head.
I on the other hand haven't been having any luck . I found some of my images in a print Magazine .. Sent a numb er of emails to them without respond. this has been over 2 years now so i let it go. Damn it's a real piss off when you see your work and you know that you never sold it to them.

good on you!

good to see your persistance paying off Dean. great work!

This sort of unapproved use of images is pretty common, isn't it?

I've known three girls IRL who have found various adult dating sites using their photos in banners/geo-IP ads without their permission...

http://www.crystal-lynn.net/?p=210

For a good example.

Sucks.

Pretty common? Yes and it is theft :winkwink:

You are still a douchebag for using twistys, deans, and god knows whos other content to promote a dating site when none of the images being used will be in the dating backend.

You are stealing plain and simple, and you cant blame it on a designer.

Pretty pathetic on your part I must say.

That really sucks...and unfortunatelly seems this will have no end :(

Fact is it should never have happened in the first place but now that it has, well...It has to be obvious to you and your entire team that this issue has been handled badly.

And by badly I mean horribly.

I agree that its been handled horribly, and not only should the content have been promptly removed, it should also never have happened. We use designers and theres a level of trust, and I don't know every girl out there nor do I check every banner, there are many people and many teams. It's not an excuse though so thats why I already said that we take responsibility for what has happened. I'm just going to make sure there are new processes set in place to prevent this in the future (like obligatory 2257 subdirs when you do design work for us), that's all I can do now.

always blaming it on the designers, got to love that shit

Yea, and from the looks of things, they might as well check the entire database, who knows which "DESIGNER" used other images they had no rights to use.

Excuse me but I've done a fair bit of design work for various people and programs over the years and I've always used content that the client provided me, not images I went and grabbed from somewhere else. Put it this way... had I done any work for your company I would have asked for access to your own legally-owned stash of content in order to find what I needed to work with OR you would have sent me the images you wanted me to use, period.

All insinuation of blame on your designers aside, the responsibility is ultimately yours (the program owner or owners). That is an inarguable fact. Nice that you admit it, but if you're going to also play the "rogue designer" card at the same time, and assuming you're being truthful about that, maybe you should consider this: If you are currently using designers who are prone to grabbing content that doesn't belong to them to create banners for clients then maybe just maybe you should find yourselves different designers?

CD Smith is right, anytime i get designs done, they want you to provide the content, they dont go out of their way to make banners from images that dont belong.

It's really interesting how when we tried to do this privately nothing got done. A nice big thread on gfy and all of a sudden they are willing to pull all the infringing content and wipe out all their banners to be safe.

hahaha... the "rogue designer" defense.

I thought this one went out in 99' or so. making me feel a little nostalgic



its simple... a designer needed images for design. ANYONE that has designs done KNOWS this. you knew this. you know this. and you knew images were being jacked from anywhere and everywhere and you didn't care before the fact. you either told him to do it, or it was done with your knowledge being that you didn't supply images for design.

have you heard of statutory damages? if he had registered the images, he could be owning you right now with statutory damages up to $150,000.00 USD per violation.

hornymatches.com = scum.

-Ben

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