Nathan / Fabian - Please step inside. Time to step up to the plate.

Since you can subpoena ISPs for IPs and name/address of downloaders/Torrent guys/ Why cant the same be down for uploaders?

If I had a tube and had people uploading for me, I would not have them doing it from the office. I'd spread people out across the world to do it. India, Philippines, New Work, Texas, Canada, and so on. You would never get caught that way.

The next time Fabian tells us he's not responsible for what happened before he bought the company and he's putting it right. Shove this down his throat. It happened on his watch and it's not the only one.

Or just rename the account and or ID number, create new account, change id number, ban that account. That's what I do.

Long live the tubes!

DWB, as I said in the other thread. We ban the user currently. And ban things like email address to prevent the user signing up again. We do not, as far as I know, remove all content, actually, under DMCA law that might be a problem... but that is something I need to find out for sure, but did not have the time yet.

I don't think DMCA law protects a repeat offender who is in violation of your own TOS. That's a bullshit copout and YOU KNOW IT.

That's like the cops saying...."yeah we know he stole this car, but we can't arrest him because he actually paid for the underwear he's wearing".

They violated your own TOS. In your TOS you say you can delete their account. Just quit bullshitting us and tell us what you really want to say:

"We don't want to delete the other videos that repeat offenders upload because we like having stolen content on our site to bring in traffic to justify our ad rates."

Does it get more obvious than that. I'm sure this type of obvious stuff will be covered up very soon.

No it's not.. just because some person uploads 3 infringing videos does not make all of them infringing. And DMCA tells us we can not select. Them violating the TOS gets them banned.

So the rest of the movies stay public?

You created NATS and the best you can do is ban their email address? Honestly?

I would think you should check DMCA law about those other videos. If your user violated your TOS 7 times (from me alone) and did not have permission to load those videos, that leads me and everyone else, including you, to believe he is loading nothing but videos he does not have the right to load. You clearly did not buy the rights to those videos otherwise that would implicate him as someone who works for you. The studios did not give him permission to post them, because for starters, he stole mine, and if he was given access to 2300 videos to put up for free, he would not bother stealing a single one.

He has 2300+ videos and you want me to believe he as the rights to all of them, after he just got caught with mine?

He doesn't.

The sheer numbers of videos alone from a plethora of different studios, tells you, without a doubt, he does not own the rights to all of them. I can speak personally and say at least 7 of them were there without permission, and I'm just on page 12 out of 99 of his pages.

A note from the user, from his profile:

With the number of posts he has and the time joined, he has been uploading 3 videos per day, for two straight years. Odd huh?

I didn't really think this was going to go anywhere but I figured I would give it a shot so at least I would know without a shadow of a doubt, that what I believed to be true, was true. Thanks for replying and removing the new videos in question, even if temporarily.

I can not say 100%, since it depends on many factors, but usually they would remain public. Under certain circumstances they all get removed.

DWB, this has nothing to do with a technical issue. And I am not a programmer anymore, I stopped programming over 3 years ago.

Why is that odd? There are a ton of people like that on YouTube also, those are not odd supposedly?

Sorry, but a copyrighted video is not automatically infringing. Far from it actually.

Actually, it's 7 infringing videos and I stopped when I was on page 12 out of 99. Will look through the rest tomorrow, but I do know for a fact this user does not have the rights to 2300+ videos. Every page of the 12 was full of DVD scenes I know from other studios.

You can't say you bought the rights to those video because that would connect him to your company. He sure as hell didn't buy the rights to them just to give them away for free, and why steal any if you have 2300 legal ones?

Use your head. In this case, it is a no brainier those videos are not supposed to be there. To think they do, for any reason, says you are being negligent.

BAM! Check Mate!