I keep getting these blogs with Flash videos and I’m not sure if its stolen content or not. The fact they are flash confuses me, are they promotional videos or?
For example: http://videoshomo.over-blog.fr/
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I cant see any sponsor links but then its not in English. Looks dodgy to me. You really need someone who can understand the text.
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That is stolen content. That Randy Blue video is about 20 minutes long.
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Weird. They’ve watermarked over top of another watermark with a site that isn’t live (appears to be owned by a domain squatter.) But the scenes don’t seem to be complete.
My guess is it is probably stolen content (or at the least, used without explicit permission.
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Those are videos from ning sites (there’s been a thread on it here - I’m too lazy to look it up)… So pretty much all stolen. As a blogger the problem is the content frequently disappears as the studios catch up with the ning sites and then all of the videos you’ve embedded are gone. But I know someone who’s built a decent following just having embedded videos - initially from XTube and now mostly from ning sites. But there was one day when I went to his site and the entire first page had nothing 'cause all the videos had been removed from ning.
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Thanks, i had a feeling it was. The whole flash clips and Tube sites makes it somewhat confusing when trying to tell whats stolen or not.
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Thanks for posting about this. I’m having internet problems today and it won’t load all the videos for me, so I have no idea which video is ours. Grrrr. I liked it when the pirates were stupid and put our names on the videos. 
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D’oh, found it!!! Grrrrr. :grrr:
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Which leads me to another question. Does it help if people post blogs that use stolen content, or are there just too many to deal with?
I come across a lot of blogs due to bestmaleblogs.com and going through what sites to list. So if its of any help I’ll start and post all sites I find with stolen content.
If there is no point, then i wont. 
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[QUOTE=gaydemon;17164]Which leads me to another question. Does it help if people post blogs that use stolen content, or are there just too many to deal with?
I come across a lot of blogs due to bestmaleblogs.com and going through what sites to list. So if its of any help I’ll start and post all sites I find with stolen content.
If there is no point, then i wont. ;)[/QUOTE]
If you do, please put it in a separate forum… 
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Posting them is a good idea because while you can’t pull all of the sites and all the links, every little bit helps. I hear so many people say “why pay for porn when you can find it for free all over the net?” If people who look for free porn are going to find broken links everywhere then maybe they’ll start buying memberships again.
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Personally I’d not want to see another forum for such a thing. I’d say simply that a thread be made, sticky it, keep it closed and just list the blogs without commenting. If others find blogs to include, a simple PM to a moderator can have it added to the list.
That would keep it clean, and easy to follow, without endless posts of thanks, or such.
Just a thought… 
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See. This is a damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. In some cases it’s not good to have links to blogs with stolen as in many cases it just gives the bastards a heads up. I think a year or so back, we did, and Don Mike was trying to get one blog shutdown and the owner of the blog was posting what a jerk Don Mike was and was actually quoting GMS as his source.
Then, the other issue is - it just gives pirates looking for this a list all in one place to go grab free content.
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[QUOTE=abostonboy;17200]See. This is a damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. In some cases it’s not good to have links to blogs with stolen as in many cases it just gives the bastards a heads up. I think a year or so back, we did, and Don Mike was trying to get one blog shutdown and the owner of the blog was posting what a jerk Don Mike was and was actually quoting GMS as his source.
Then, the other issue is - it just gives pirates looking for this a list all in one place to go grab free content.[/QUOTE]
OMG, I remember that. That guy was such a jerk.
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Oh Yeah! And he was getting updates from webmaster boards on a daily basis. Since that time, I have always felt that a private forum for content producers is the only answer.
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I agree. I think it’s the best solution. A group of known producers and the like with their own hidden section or where we input a user/pass
The more they read about our strategies and why we think something will or wont work, the more useless our moves become.
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[QUOTE=Squirt;17215]I agree. I think it’s the best solution. A group of known producers and the like with their own hidden section or where we input a user/pass
The more they read about our strategies and why we think something will or wont work, the more useless our moves become.[/QUOTE]
Bjorn? How about it?
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In theory is all sounds good, but in practice it really seems like you’d be cutting off your entire network of reporters. To have a forum for ‘producers’ you ignore the simple fact, most of the found stolen content comes from either your affiliates, or those surfing.
Secondly, a ‘secret’ or ‘hidden’ forum for such a use, on a public board, just doesn’t seem right. Too much is already done in secret, in the real world, that perhaps one of the few places left for open honest dialogue is places like these public forums.
As to strategy, surely with PM’s, ICQ, email, there isn’t a need to have it out in the open for them to read or snoop over.
Don’t add the URL as an active link, or better yet, have it simply direct to some other site, so that surfers will come to regret clicking on it?
Point is, there are lots of ways to deny surfers the link, making them work hard to get. With all the free stuff, that isn’t going to be much of a problem, now is it? Put up a few roadblocks and they’ll pass.
There is also the concern of turning a public forum of adult webmasters into a clique, which happens when you have forums open only to select members. You create a barrier, that effectively negates the entire purpose of the board, which is to network, to share ideas, concepts, and solutions.
For myself, I’d hope Bjorn would reject such a suggestion.
my 2 cents
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He may reject such and idea. If he does I may just do it myself.
When you are a content producer or part of your job is sending DMCA, having this stuff in a open forum in many ways defeats the purpose.
For example, you mentioned having a list of just stolen blogs with no comments. Now, if one were a surfer that list would be priceless.
Concerning ims, PMS, Emails, well,let’s just say that it gets damn annoying and a waste of one’s time communicating that way. it’s not just this site has stolen content etc.
I understand that many don’t like “invite only boards”. That is ok. Content producers don’t like their content stolen and tipping of thieves either as to what they are doing to protect the content. As I said, it’s damned if you do and damned if you don’t. Someone will do it within the next few months as the issue is getting out of hand.
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Which is why maybe this should be done in secret outside the public forums.