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Originally Posted by wankawonk
(Post 22500919)
That's just the game man, chaturbate gives you everything you need to make any kind of whitelabel or promo site you want but if the models want shit taken down you don't have any choice but to comply.
If it serves their needs chaturbate will shut down your account for using the promo materials that they provided you with. maybe it's bullshit, but that's the game you're in.
you're an affiliate, you have no power. you might think your shit is "perfectly legit" but it really doesn't matter to chaturbate or their models.
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You make good points.
I don't "think my shit is perfectly legit", I know it is. So if models don't want to be indexed in Google why are they not also filing DMCA against the sponsor they work for?
Why not contacting the sponsor to request not to be included in promo feeds? Why filing dmca instead of contacting the webmaster?
Beside, models are affiliates themselves nowadays. So they can have sites but pure webmasters can't?
For the record, the dmca I got is not related to Chaturbate (though I am also an affiliate of theirs). cb actually has an option for models to opt out from the partner program and they don't supply any metadata nor profile pictures anyway. Furthermore, I don't think cb is a good place for models who care about their privacy and anonymity since it offers public shows.
So, maybe I am "just a webmaster/affiliate" with no power but my understanding is dmca is not just a box to tick for preference and convenience purposes, it is negatively impacting my work, and it has legal implications, potentially. I couldn't be bothered going down that road but technically speaking the model agreed to the terms and doesn't hold the copyright on those profile pictures and content going through the affiliate program. So I am entitled to file a counter notice if I wanted to.
Furthermore this is inconvenient for my online business, as you know it isn't easy to build a website and rank it.
One of the girls filed a notice on a listing page where her profile pic showed up, so she managed to de-index an entire page, just like that.
So in this case any competitor of mine could just go ahead and file dmca all over the place to de-index my site? seriously?
My take is they are confused as per what is allowed/fair and what is not.
Not allowed: recording shows, screenshots, unofficial material.
Allowed: using official promotional material