So How Long is thi industry going to take it up the ass?
 

i posted about this months ago and got almost zero feedback - this site needs to be taken fucking down by this industry - http://www.megarotic.com - it's the worst I've seen for copyright theft and it's traffic is huge. It needs to be taken down - legally or illegally

but i guess this won't be discussed at the upcoming brovention - that would be asking too much. let's discuss trading exits and the latest scam/spam techniques.

depressing - right in the toilet this business is going - a perfect storm has been forming for awhile to pretty much end this industry as a profitable one.

Don't be upset Mutt.

You almost sound like me when I would go on about whats right for the biz kinda shit like this. It's pointless, no one will do anything and even if they do 20 more will replace it.

I warned about spyware, I warned about spam, I warned about RIP sites and no one ever gave a shit.

You know the game.

Infact...
My bantering about things only influenced people to start there own spam lists, get there own Spyware, and start there own content theft sites.

I raged on people that were known spammers, hardcore spammers and NOTHING, well actually people stood up for the spammers, people would stand up for spyware fuckers to, I changed nothing....

Forget about it man...

Let it go...
Before you encourage the newbs to stand up for thieves and scammers while taking pot shots at you.

Yeah I was quite shoked when pornotube.com came out 1 year ago or so and seemed to gain industry recognition.

It's funny how the industry changed, when I was a surfer, I was circle-jerked to death trying to see some nude teen pictures on the web for free.

One site actually had some wording that went in the lines of "as you can see you can never get really any porn for free.. All sites tell "click here to enlarge" but they only redirect you to other sites. If you want porn, you have to pay." And... I believed them :) So when I found some 8 seconds poor quality sex video, I really enjoyed it. Ok that was in 1999.

Then 3 years later I came into this biz and also discovered already all the free porn with TGP's.... But even the TGP's weren't really supported by anyone. I remember an interview with Lensman from 2002/2003 or so where he said he doesn't really support the concept of offering too much free porn to the surfer... Well, 2 years later,. Lensman came up with Realitycash, a program designed for TGP traffic in particular.... And then also came all the MGP's... and they started to offer even longer free movies as time went by...

And now in 2007 we all wish that free porn was only available on TGP's/MGP's....

Sites like Megarotic offer 10 full time videos for a surfer to watch for free, that's like 2 hours high quality free porn every day, no one needs more. In my case, I have an dynamic IP, after I watch 10 vids there, then disconecting and connecting to the web again is enough to reset my limit. Anyway, people who discover such sites, are lost customers for good. You can only sell webcams or dating to them. Dating should work better probably... and that's why Megarotic promotes dating and poker....

And then we got all the tprrents...

I really wonder how this industry will look in say 3-5 years.


The average conversion ratio, with the exception of Google traffic searching for micro-niches or paysite names, will be probably 1 sale for every 10,000 uniques sent.

pathetic - the truth is that 90% of people on here have never paid a dime for content and are scam artists themselves - nothing interests them about the future of this industry because they are scammers/spammers and scammers never think long term.

well if anybody wants to take on megarotic or any of the others like it just let me know and i'll make a big donation to the cause.

Megarotic has full length movies from all the top programs - and now I see they have the balls to charge surfers for a Premium Membership. They also want to make deals with content providers - for chump change - this is the 'ITunes' solution - surrender to the thieves and charge people next to nothing. People will say use sites like Megarotic - adapt - fuck that, making a deal with the Devil is never a solution. There are two solutions - one is the legal solution and the other is to DDOS them into oblivion.

Well they don't have a 2257 page or link or anything and I doubt that have any 2257 docs on the content. So report them to the US government.

Its not non-US site?

thread = dead

There are scammers, criminals, and get quick rich artists in every bussiness... ours is no different.

Solution: Get ranked in google and get the fresh surfers who have never seen that site.

Solution 2: Use megarotic embed videos to leach there bandwidth and profit yourself.

Non solution: Crying and bitching and hoping someone will do something. Adapt or go home.

Holy shit, every day you get even dumber.

Um If a guy can whack off to an entire 20 minute scene and he has access to thousands of them on that site WHY would he purchase a membership to a paysite?

Honestly we all have to band together to fix the problem, just no one is willing to take the lead!

If I had the money or resources I would, but unfortunately I don't So we are still looking for that leader.

By most of these sites TOS the user has to sign a confirmation that they own the copyright to such content. So embedding any video of any video sharing site is not the responsibility of the person hosting or the person embedding. The person uploading the video is commiting copyright infringement.

Unless there is a specific way for the person to tell that the video uploaded isnt uploaded with copyright owners permission then they can not be held responsible.

So if you buy a stolen tv from a pawnshop, even when you know its stolen, then its ok, since YOU didn't steal it yourself?

Squizzel, try to put both of your braincells together and think of a business plan that doesn't involve the words "steal" or "stolen"

And when i said profit from them.. i meant it in the sense, of uploading videos that are provided by sponsors as free content and using them as free hosting. I know you hate me Steve. We know... we know.

How do i know its stolen? Im not talking about a 55 minute scene with bangbros printed in the corner (by the way you you tag all your content) Im talking about a 3-4 minute clip that could be used as legitimate promotional material. Please go through my site. I dont have any obvious "members area content" and if i do, its there by mistake and will be removed once prompted. I have done alot to clean up my site, we dont allow users to post rapidshare links to anything other then amateur content anymore, we dont allow users to upload anything at all onto the site anymore. We will delete and ban any user that posts full scenes from a paysite. I am not legally abliged to do that but i do because the more free content on my site, the lower my conversions get.

This is a fact: it is not the sites responsibility to know if content is copyrighted. It is the user who uploads it, therefore they are protected by dmca legislation and as long as they remove the content once a complain has been made there is nothing you can do to the likes of pornotube, xtube, megarotic etc etc. Anyone embedding a video is protected by the same because they can also assume that the content is free to embed because they signed that they own the copyright.

apologies for my 5th grader spelling.

What about if paysites would start offering flash videos (non-downloadable) instead of downloadable wmv or avi files.

I know surfers want downloadable content so that they can jerk off to it later. But I guess it would be harder to rip such content.

this is a solution.

also, if programs offered embed content i would use it exclusively but at the moment about 5% of programs offer this and it is much needed. Especially for sites like mine, bloggers and the huge increase in viral video sites.

Also steve, can i get your approval on this layout.

http://www.bluedesignstudios.com/hv/bangedtv/v2/

i know your just gonna love some of the crap i have planned.

whenever you see a flash video it drops it into your temp folder in windows, it would deter some people but its still pretty easy to get

i check a few websites like that once a month and simply ask for all of our content to be removed and it is always removed within 24 hours. learn to play the game or lose at it ;)

also, we provide almost all of our content in flash streams for our members, it kicks the fuck out of wmv for streaming.

we also allow wmv downloads as well.

you're a piece of shit on this industry's shoe - just another parasite whose leeched onto this business to make enough money to buy some some cool rims and beer.

that looks like shit i hope you did not pay them for that a russian outsourcer guy could have done the same work for about $50

agreed. i've martyred this industry through a few issues also. i'm done preaching to people that don't want to hear or don't think its affecting them when it is. now, i just take care of those paying me and silently pursue those that attempt to damage that. got a few prosecutions going on right now. my suggestion is that everyone take accountability for their own resources and assets and protect them because the chances of the industry uniting in any kind of way are minuscule.

Until this industry is willing to create and adhere to a self regulating body, the degradation of the adult business will continue.

Discuss......

You have a better chance of the Middle East suddenly coming together and signing peace treaties. On one end you have a large number of affiliates that will do anything they can to scam program owners out of every last penny through every shady and outright illegal tactic available. On the other end you have program owners that have spammed and scammed and infuriated their customer base, that then bitch about those fed up customers resorting to torrent sites. All the while they are secretly cutting deals to accept torrent traffic, and then chastising their affiliates that do the same. Why should one end trust the other when they are both outright full of shit?

Every sector of this industry is the same way. When I was attending BACE meetings in Ohio for the strip club and adult bookstore industry I've never seen a bigger collection of egos, liars, and outright scum bags piled into one room. Everyone gave lip service about wanting to untie while looking at each other like they couldn't fucking stand to be breathing the same oxygen, and that was just among the maybe 20% of the adult businesses in the area that could be bothered to attend.

In the end it comes down to this...irregardless of what everyone would like to believe, the adult industry attracts a disproportionate amount of shady people with piss poor work ethics and even poorer business ethics. It's hard to untie the "get rich quick" mindset individuals in here and expect them to do anything to protect themselves if it actually involves doing any amount of work to achieve it. Unlike most in here I have been arrested and jailed more times than I can count to fight for my right to exist and operate, and I'm slowly taking the mindset to do what is best for myself. It's pointless to care when no one else does...

:thumbsup:thumbsup great post

why arent they being sued by the big guys? Claiming that only the uploaders can be are legally responsible is bullshit... I think the pawnshop anology illustrated well...

You hit the nail right on the head :thumbsup

Are they hosted in the US. taking payments from the US?? If so, you can nail them with the feds that way. But remeber that you are setting case law of you do, and that will screw a lot of people that are doing it the honest way.

The solution is very simple.

We had a problem with CP, so we created ASACP. We had legal challenges, so we created Free Speech Coalition.

OK, so neither of those groups has been perfect, but at least they have done something and kept the problems somewhat under control.

Now, we have content theft on a massive scale, and we need an adult organization dedicated to fighting it. I am sure the big adult companies would all donate. We just need someone to take the lead..

The recording industry has RIAA. We need the equivalent.

If I thought for one second this industry would get behind it and support it I would take the reigns, but I've done enough pissing into the wind in my life...

See here:

http://www.riaa.com/whatwedo.php

You want people to stop kissing ass, to talk about business ?? Behave... :winkwink:

As long as you keep bringing the lube big boi...

:winkwink:

Not exactly the best model to follow :2 cents:

this is irony at it's worse:

http://www.megarotic.com/video/?c=dmca

:)

What did you do exactly, besides starting a thread?

lmao. please define a business leech :1orglaugh

another thread about industry problems, another thread that will not get anything solved.

There already is/was an "organisation" like that with that deadbeat asshole
lawyer.....can't think of his name right now....but I'm sure 1 of the other
oldskoolies will help me out with the name

nothing but spend stupid time trying to get my content down from where it shouldn't be.

my point is this industry needs to fight back in unison - not sending out these stupid C&D's that all these sites just laugh at because they know it's meaningless and when they do take down stolen content they know at the same time even more is being uploaded at the same time.

one of these sites needs to be taken on legally - to be proven in a court of law that their method of doing business is illegal. all I'm prepared to do is pay my fair share.

I sale DDoS if is right price :eek7

This industry will take it up the ass until certain legendary figures stop buying lube for the fuckers.

I'm sure everyone is aware of my feelings on sites like these.

i vaguely remember some shit with you a while back.... :helpme