Re: ManHub.com - Making money on your stolen content?
Okay guys, enough complaining. It’s time to put up or shut up. This problem needs collective action and not more complaining on a webmaster board.
The only way to handle this situation is for site owners to organize. They need a leader. That person needs to contact as many sponsors as possible to sign on to a program of action. Once you have something like 30 sponsors who are willing to demand all their videos be pulled from these unethical tubes unless your concerns are addressed, then you go to the tube owner with this list and you say, “Unless you meet these demands, these 30 sites are going to email you and request you remove all of their videos and they’re going to cancel your affiliate accounts.”
That’s the only way this is going to get resolved. DMCA’ing them doesn’t work because they just pull down the video and say, “Sorry … database error … a surfer uploaded and we didn’t catch it … or thanks for letting us know we don’t even know how that happened.”
Any sponsor who agrees to be on the list and then doesn’t follow through by requesting their videos be removed should then be outted, you know like scab workers are targeted during a strike.
Danny, you keep pointing to the .xxx scenario and how we can accomplish things collectively. I’ll give you another example. I have become the self-appointed loud mouth on the affiliate cookie issue. When I posted the list of the board, a couple of sponsors immediately changed their cookies. When the list was expanded recently several more changed their cookies. I have also emailed a couple of site owners and they’ve changed them, too.
I may not be popular with some sponsors and I’m sure others are bitching about that fucking dzinerbear, and a few others have complained about how this board has become bitchy towards sponsors. But seriously, things are out of control on a number of fronts in this business and the only way to get things changed is to talk about them publicly, shame people into making changes, and organize yourselves so you can proceed with a pronged attack.
Affiliates have been sitting back and “taking it” in a number of different ways, I think that I’ve showed that when they speak up they can affect change. Sponsors can do the same.
One or two sponsors cancelling their accounts means nothing to these guys, they probably just say, “Oh well, they didn’t sell many memberships anyway. Who cares?” But 20, 30, 40, 0r 50 sponsors will start to get their attention.
So, who is going to spearhead this project and get things moving?
As a small affiliate, I have no power, but I will no longer be promoting any Haze Cash property. I’ll be going through my blogs and starting to pull down their posts. I hope other affiliates will do the same. Affiliates might not like the idea of losing income, but big properties like Manhub are already chomping into our revenues, so why help them?
