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Old 06-29-2007, 10:31 AM   #1
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There's alot of hoopla surrounding sites like Megarotic that blatently offer high quality 20+ minute videos of porn movies - content that is beyond promotional clips and appears to be either stolen or illegally distribued content (unlicensed). There is no reference to point of source, 2257, and many don't even have overlays with urls or anything.

Sites like Xtube and Wanktube differ in that they allow webmasters to upload videos and provide a link to the site of source, 2257 link, and the clips are for promotion.

Differentiating between the types of video sites that cater to the promotional aspects of video sharing and act as webmaster tools versus those types of sites that encourage the theft and sharing of stolen/lifted content (P2P networks included) and even have the audicity to charge users for a premium membership fee to access both stolen or legally uploaded content... well what are your thoughts?

Would you upload your clips to a site that contains stolen content? Illegal content?

And an even bigger question, where does DRM stand in all this. Haven't we had the optoin of protecting our video content for years, or has DRM pissed off the "collecting consumer" too much that encoding your members video content can actually deterr retention and signups?
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Old 06-29-2007, 10:55 AM   #2
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there is a giantic wave heading to alot of webmasters that will be as annoying and devastating as 2257 is - and that is copyright infringements. with tucker and his crew getting the ball rolling, other content companies etc. who are seeing their movies/images used randomly without permission are finally going to say enough is enough.

why even have paysites when affiliate programs and advertising banners are the means to the end for free sites and stolen images. there has to be a backlash, and I have no sympathy for anyone who uses images without proper copyrights - its the same as 2257's to me.
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Old 06-29-2007, 11:12 AM   #3
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DRM isn't bulletproof. There are already ways of removing the DRM from videos. One way around it, is having your videos stream only, which can piss off a member here and there.

I haven't really gone to Xtube or Wanktube, nor Megatronic much for that matter.

My opinion of Xtube/Wanktube is that its generally a different style of MGP offering. It has potential, but my feelings is that its just going to be more of a straight surfer site due to the sheer amount of free content that is there. Not to mention all the amateur porn that the regular joe and jane are putting up their homebrew movies.

Megarotic definitely needs to be dealt with.
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Old 06-29-2007, 12:21 PM   #4
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It's bad for some good for others

more importantly, what it will likely do is change the way porn currently works online (members paying to access a members area for a flat rate per month)...it will probably force paysite owners to make their sites more into little communities (which is kind of happening with some of the video sharing sites anyways).

Things are always changing and evolving and this will be another change that will provide a windfall for some and a downfall for others.
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