Re: NING: The Ultimate Evil
Two thoughts:
I believe that Ning is the brainchild of Mark Andresson, the person who wrote the original Mosaic web browser that became Netscape (and later Mozilla).
From everything I’ve read and heard, Mark is a good guy, and doesn’t seem like the type who would build a business model intended to run on stolen content. I wonder how receptive he would be to a constructive conversation on how to address this issue?
Second thought: I and several others have suggested starting a fund, paid for by contributions from sites and programs and studios, that would hire an attorney specifically to go after sites with infringing content. My guess is that if you had a systematic attack on, say, ning, blogspot, the egregious tube sites that charge membership fees for access to stolen content, etc., that you could probably get some resolution to the problem.
However, like everything else in the adult industry, getting anybody to cooperate about anything is nearly impossible. If anyone has any ideas on how to go about it, I’d be interested in discussing it and working with a group.
Re: NING: The Ultimate Evil
I’ve said this before but I love how people who run these blogs and sites act like we’re the bad guys. They honestly act like there is this golden cachet of porn that comes out of a magic spring somewhere and we just take it and keep it from being freely given to the masses. I mean seriously, how do they thing this stuff gets made???
Re: NING: The Ultimate Evil
I believe they mistakenly hold that we make such unholy amounts of money and get such an insane amount of free sex that we just won’t care. We should expect that our work will be stolen and act accordingly.
It has always been easier to steal than to produce.
Re: NING: The Ultimate Evil
[QUOTE=AlexManifestMan;12014]I believe they mistakenly hold that we make such unholy amounts of money and get such an insane amount of free sex that we just won’t care. We should expect that our work will be stolen and act accordingly.
It has always been easier to steal than to produce.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, but it’s one thing to just steal and admit you’re doing it. To say, “well, I’ve been caught. I guess it was only a matter of time”. But it’s this idea that we have the audacity to keep from them what should rightfully be theirs is just preposterous. If you spend all day making sandwiches expecting to sell them in a shop wouldn’t you be upset that someone has come along and eaten them all without paying? And what if you were megarich? Does that somehow take away from the fact that you spend all day making the sandwiches? That you don’t deserve to get paid for it?
I once know a guy that believed all software should be free to whomever wanted it. He was not a software designer, obviously. We never happened to get into the discussion about it but I always wanted to say, “go to school for computer science or web design or whatever and spend years developing a product while living on next to nothing… then give it away for free. Then we’ll talk.”
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I have asked them before why they don’t understand that it is indeed stealing and somehow they just don’t get it. If I just want to be famous I would smash my dick with a hammer and put it on YouTube. Stealing my product and giving it away to build a “brand” is not the name of game in my book.