Let's talk about Porn Video Pass and their use of stolen content.
 

I'm dying to know why they are using exclusive content that I produced for another client. The client is not affiliated with them.

So...What's the story? :321GFY

No story. Just simple facts. They are stealing your content.

This drama needs a link.

Damn, it must suck to get jacked huh ?

YES , Lets hear it :pimp

crooks and stupidity.... it seems these two things go hand in hand at times.

If we don't care about Fusker stealing content, what makes you think we care about someone stealing yours ? ;)

Did you talk to your client before posting this ? (pretty stupid question... answer is prolly yes)

Sorry, i told them they could use it.

Fusker hotlinks it though from people without htaccess, right?

This sounds different.

You cared enough to read and reply to my thread and that's really all I care about.

They aren't ripping me off, they are ripping off my client.

As for Fusker....Whatever the fuck that is.......I don't know what you are talking about because unlike you, if I don't care about it, I typically don't read about it.

Of course I did.

If I ran a Fusker site, and hotlinked all of AaronM's content on the net wherever I found it, maybe even on your domains and promoted AdultFriendFinder.. is that ok ?

I wondered whose content they were stealing. I didn't say I cared.

This is widespread and we send out papers serving people all the time for stolen content.
If this is an issue for you, I have someone we use that does a great job, hit me on icq and I will get you the info on how to contact them.

we get sites shut down , and processing frozen and all kinds of good shit to these fuckers.

No, but AaronM (or wherever you found it) could install an htaccess to block it, or show an advertisement instead of the images.

A lot of those hotlinking sites rely on peoples unprotected servers and steal bandwidth as much as content. Neither is ok, but this sounds different than hotlinking was my only point.

No bueno!!!!!!!!!!!

If you don't have htaccess configured to disallow hotlinking your shit you deserve to get bandwidth raped.

Brujah that guy Alex is a tool.... he forgot to mention 2 other sponsors on that fusker page... No worries though we will take care of it

No it doesnt. Does the supermarket deserve to get their products stolen as well?

Depends on how fresh the cucumbers are

if you dont do anything to protect yourself or prevent the theft of your product, youre an asshole and deserve the concequences of your stupidity.

Fusker currently uses a programme that overrides the most stringent htaccess - The only way to thwart fusker is by asking them to leave your site alone - This always works in the short term, until another fusker user comes along and fuskers your domain again.

Yes that's right! And if you leave your front door open you deserve to be burgled and if you wear a short skirt you deserve to be raped!

If you don't lock your car door, you deserve to get your car stolen.

Wrong. Next thing will be. Wear a bullet proof vest, or you deserve to get shot dead...Jeez get a clue

Thanks cURL and PHP and their own .htaccess... Works very well... It is even being used now by gallery posters... Get on the Hun the leave the bandwidth bill to someone else...

So, is this an AVS of sorts? Is it possible your client has an affiliate program and the affiliate used a FHG and submitted it as an AVS site?

This happens frequently, and MOST sponsors are cool with it.

yes, if the offender is USA based it is no big deal to shut them down.

the best way is to lean on the host and e-commerce processor. check their "agents for copyright" in the fine print and serve them notice.

thank bill clinton for signing the "no electronic theft" act.

now, if the offender is out of USA you have a problem.

i forgot to add:

the reason it is easy to shut down the USA based offender is because the host becomes a "contributory infringer" under the act.

and it is usually the host that has the deep pockets, not the little asswipe stealing the content.

so the host pulls the plug on the websites pronto.

Is there even anyone from Porn Video Pass that posts on GFY?

Fuck if I know.

Here's what I do know....

I saw the shit, called my client, and confirmed that he has never heard of the company. This means they stole the content and I am simply making people aware of it.

wonder why this isn't getting more attention, seems like a pretty big issue to me

That is pretty fucked up right there....

I don't understand how your images can still be hotlinked once you fix your .htaccess....

Yeah they can use CURL/PHP to fake an http header, fetch the image, then forward it to a user - but in doing all that fusker still ends up paying for that bandwidth (2x, once to rip the image from you, then one more to load the image for the viewer, BUT, fusker dosen't do that, all the images are hotlinked) And what does fusker do to its "own .htaccess"? - people have been saying a lot about fusker being a super script lately - but its code is available online freely, i do not see anything special in it.

so anyone without a car alarm deserves to get their car stolen?

OMFG :1orglaugh

http://www.slambats.com/prodimages/Mod73_Nat1.jpg:2 cents:

Maybe you should get a clue. That was blatant sarcasm. :warning

Could someone else have stolen it and sold it to them as "legal"?

Is it too late for a sig spot?

you sexy bald headed man

people are too busy looking at the free pic threads :helpme

I don't see that happening with my images on there. They have a small number of images that they grabbed from one of my sites a while back. But if I stick in an additional line of code to my existing htaccess it blocks them.

You could also have said that it is most likely that things like hotlinking can happen to you if you don't disallow it... Give this guy a break, posting stuff like this doesn't really help IMHO.

Its a shame that business or business related threads are so rare here now. The place has been sig whored to death.

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Originally Posted by sonofsam Damn, it must suck to get jacked huh ?

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Too funny... this thread turned into hotlinking/fusker and whether or not people deserve to be stolen from.

1) no one deserves to be stolen from no matter what the circumstances
2) this isn't a hotlinking/fusker issue.

Jeeze some of you people are thick sometimes! :1orglaugh