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Originally Posted by Corona
If I was a content producer I'm sure I would be upset about my content floating around the web for free.
But doesn't Guba just charge surfers $15 to show them the same pictures that they could see for free just by going directly to the newsgroup?
If they close up shop today how does that change the fact your content is still available in the newsgroups?
I'm not trying to start shit with you just trying to understand this better.
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The issue is that our content is not always put on Usenet by us. When we post to Usenet, it is always a small quantity (10-12 pics) that we've hand picked as being 'promotional write-offs'. And those same ones get used in other places for promo and advertising.
We're talking about mass quantities of images posted by surfers who have gotten them from our websites and freely reposted them to Usenet.
And as I've pointed out in other threads, newsgroup servers generally have a very short posting retention span compared to the duration those same photos remain on Guba for their paying members.
Either way, if the surfers see the images for free on Usenet (which is bad enough)....at least they're free - and not contributing to the revenue profits going in to the pockets of exploitive scumbags like Guba.