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Originally Posted by signupdamnit
It seems like we actually agree minus the suing comment at the end.
Who do the consumers think are the leaders of the porn industry? The tubes and the pirates largely. That is who Google cares about as well.
This stuff? It is for mainstream. It is for the movie and music producers who are on them. No matter what you might think or what they might "hint" at it is most certainly not for the adult industry. They don't give a shit about us unless it is to prevent our sites from coming up in non-adult keywords or to get rid of the "spammers". And often we are considered the "spammers" rightly or wrongly.
The movie and music industry actually has large trade groups which lobby the government and threatens to sue. In adult the people at the top are the pirates. It is not hard to see. Why would Google save the industry when we [collectively] don't seem to give a damn ourselves?
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I completely agree that their focus here is on the mainstream industry, which is why I focused heavily upon the fact that there's an automatic algorithmic change that comes with sites having a lot of DMCA requests lodged against it.
I doubt you're going to see 'Backdoor Sluts Volume 7' having its own rich snippet in SERPs that links you directly to a store so you can purchase it legally, but I do hope the first search result will now be to paysites instead of site rip directories.
It's still early days, so hopefully we can all agree that any news re: content theft and Google punishing it is a step in the right direction.
Are the tubes going to be wiped off of their #1 spots overnight? Probably not. Will they see a gradual decline if they continue to have numerous DMCA requests lodged against them? Probably so.