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Originally Posted by The Hun
Fully agree! I am surprised about the way copyright violations are dealt with on the online world! In the real world when you steal you'll get fined... online you get a note saying that you have 7 days to stop stealing... which of course is read as: there is no problem keeping it oneline for 7 days...
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IMO that's only part of the problem, the biggest problem is companies not going after pirates
some will go after downloaders, which is the wrong solution imo, it doesn't solve the problem, it just gets you some money when you porn shame people into settling + it actually sets a dangerous monetary incentive, your incentive in that case is not to protect your content, but to "catch" as many violations, which could so easily lead to scams
+ it hurts the industry in public opinion, every story of a single mom being ruined because her 17 yo old son downloaded some porn, just enrages people and makes them even less likely to want to pay for what your offer.
you have to go after the relatively small group of people releasing this in the first place:
some you will be able to "pirate shame" into stopping, same tactic some use on downloaders, especially if they just started
others you have to sue, get their data from the file hosts or sue them for it
when you go onto a tube you'll see a ton of pirated videos which are re-encoded with watermark with another domain, which is for instance a white label dating site, that's an open and shut case of somebody stealing, you telling me you can't go after them in that case????
but sadly I have very little hope, because laziness will be the behavior of most paysite owners until they have to close their sites, with a pitstop at "trying not to pay their affiliates" or "blaming affiliates for bad conversions" of course