A long time traffic and sales generator for many webmasters had been the tgp, and with the new laws here in the states, do you think that they'll start to diminish, or change over to text only versions?
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A long time traffic and sales generator for many webmasters had been the tgp, and with the new laws here in the states, do you think that they'll start to diminish, or change over to text only versions?
Oh what new laws now?
Michael
Ok, not new per se, but more apt to be enforced ... where anyone putting up an image is considered a producer nowadays, and needing full documents on hand for any pics used.
I think they'll continue to change and overseas hosted/maintained TGP's will dominate ;)
Yea, I think that's going to be the case for most any type of pic based hub at this point ... anyone overseas or setup to do biz offshore will dominate.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squirt
which, once again, points out how stupid the loser republicans and right wing loonies are... the new laws won't do a thing to stem porn traffic or business, and *certainly* won't do anything to curb obscenity or cp. It will just drive legitimate adult webmasters and content offshore where it's mostly out of reach of investigators but still accessible by US citizens, and where it's mostly, for practical purposes, exempt from the sort of regulation that sites are in the US.
And, of course, it means that all those porn dollars that used to be spent with US companies and put back into the US economy will instead go to other countries, probably never to return to the US.
Brilliant move all around.
Same happened in Germany - they're as "smart" as the Americans - just in another way. We had an "ok" Age Verification System, using your ID for access a porn site. It was easy and for free. Then they decided: Oh, wouldn't a "Face to Face" control on the internet be safer? Sure - said and done. New law. If you are based in Germany you have to provide a face to face control for AVS. Regardless that other countries offer everything without - also in German (Austria, Switzerland)Quote:
Originally Posted by gaybucks_chip
Result now: Offshore companies, Webmasters out of business and no AVS at all.
Have a great day :)
Ines
Yes, we Germans are smart, aren't we? :rolleyes:
Jawoll :)
.. we are :innocent:
The only thing I see that might need to change is that the hosted thumbnail will be PG rated, or X rated, but not sexually explicit. The gallery links are not hosted by the TGP, in most cases and in that case, no 2257 docs need to be kept by the TGP owner.
Now this is where I keep getting confused ... if it's a hotlinked image or feed, you're saying we don't need documentation? I thought if an image is on your site, regardless of how it gets there, you're supposed to have docs on it.
It is our understanding, based on two legal opinions from different firms that linked to or plug-in content itself is not on your server, you have no control over it and therefore are not a primary or secondary producer of the content. Now, some or most of the TGP sites host the thumbnail and that is where offering a non sexually explicit thumbnail would be a work around and also ensure that banners on the sites are not sexually explicit.
I think you will start seeing a lot more US webmaster actually move out of the country or form partnerships with other non-US webmasters.
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Originally Posted by lisa
Well, if that's the case, then yea, US Webmasters can adapt to using the softcore imagery, but it still gives offshore webmasters an advantage. Let's face it, hardcore imagery gets the clicks over softcore anyday.
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Originally Posted by Squirt
SWEDEN then we'll be like piratebay
Yes, and another disadvantage to nonexplicit thumbnails is that the thumbnails would always have to be manually screened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bec
If the US TGP owner goes to text-only gallery links, the TGP gets the advantange of a keyword rich page which will bring more search engine hits. Also, a text-only gallery links may have a better conversion ratio. One of the US TGP owners who converted from a thumbnail to a text TGP found this to be true.