Responsive Pirates

[nickbaer]

I just got another half-dozen of my videos off of Pirate sites.

They are responsive!

Open a Google window, and type NAMEOFPIRATESITE: one-of-your-keywords

Google limits the search to that Pirate site... before it lists other less relevant.

From my effort on Monday, all have taken down the illegal uploads!

I know it's Wednesday, but they usually are on the other side of the globe from the US.

[rawTOP]

If they respond and take things down, they're legally not a pirate - they're running a completely legal tube. Whether you it or not, those are the rules of the game these days.

[nickbaer]

These were "user contributed" full-length files of my videos, going back six months to two years. No knowledge to me that my videos were being provided, no compensation to me.

Is that what "legal" Tube sites are these days? Without my consent, with out me earning revenue from the subsequent downloads? Doing something illegal until getting caught, then acting contrite?


I don't have a member pay site, so I don't provide clips of my videos to legal Tube sites.

I am a studio on AEBN, HotMovies, XTube, GameLink. I believe some legal tube sites get clips of my videos from my VOD hosts.

The most important full-length file I found on the worst repeat offender site, charging to download my video for "free", was an exclusive release on AEBN. The video went live on the illegal site in August, which was the one month someone downloaded the video on AEBN, so someone (presumably) paid to download it from AEBN at $24.95, from which I got 20%, then uploaded it.

Two years ago, I did find many of my eBooks and a handful of my videos on USENET. I was able to get them off of various USENET indexes that charge customers to search and download the maze that is USENET, but not USENET itself. It's like on a Mac or PC, where you can delete a file in the Trash or Recycle Bin, but that doesn't in itself delete it from the hard drive. the file is still there, either way.

But stopping doing something illegal after getting caught, doesn't make it "legal".

[mhorst]

To me, anyone that takes your videos and posts them without your knowledge or consent and earns revenue from them is a pirate! No other word describe them stealing your work.

No different than burning copies of copyright dvd's.

[rawTOP]

Is that what "legal" Tube sites are these days? Without my consent, with out me earning revenue from the subsequent downloads?

Yes. It's settled law. It's gone through the courts. It is not illegal. There's a reason why you almost never hear of people like Titan doing lawsuits anymore.

To me, anyone that takes your videos and posts them without your knowledge or consent and earns revenue from them is a pirate! No other word describe them stealing your work.

The uploading user is the pirate, not the tube site.

[Squirt]

To me, anyone that takes your videos and posts them without your knowledge or consent and earns revenue from them is a pirate! No other word describe them stealing your work.

No different than burning copies of copyright dvd's.

Exactly.

Isn't enabling pirates financially the same as being a pirate?

People wonder why there is so little diversity in porn and porn company ownership these days.