more stolen videos on Ning.. with copyright

[gaydemon]

Found another Ning site, these videos they havent even removed the copyright statment on:

http://gaysbr.ning.com/video/video/show?id=2252811%3AVideo%3A429

[Squirt]

They have Men At Play (http://www.gaysbr.com/filmes/mini-filme-gay-executivos-transando-no-deposito), Broke Straight Boys (http://www.gaysbr.com/acessorios/broke-straight-boys-gay-for-cash-office-boys) and Corbin Fisher too (http://www.gaysbr.com/filmes/corbin-fisher---sexo-gay---meu-prof-da-academia/)

I hate that these people put their watermarks over the producers watermark. It's a true insult to not even give credit to the person you're stealing from. So much for stolen content being a form of advertising.

[gaydemon]

How come ning gets away with it all the time? I mean they really seem to be repeat offenders.. Then again, its all about who would do anythign about it.

[Squirt]

I can understand why smaller studios might not have the resources but multi million dollar studios should really be doing more.

Perhaps it's a strategy to get the small guys out of business and take minor losses now to have a larger market share in the future?

[barnkin]

to bad we could not find a good hacker that can do a DOS on this sites

[Squirt]

Interesting idea

[barnkin]

and from another server do a ping flood at the same time

[Squirt]

I know a few studios have been talking behind the scenes about alternative legal methods involving servers. I guess the legality of what a server does depends on where it is housed right?

[rawTOP]

I hate that these people put their watermarks over the producers watermark.

That raises an interesting issue of where the best location is for a content owner to watermark their video. From what I've seen the bottom left corner is the corner that's least likely to have a watermark put over it.

[Squirt]

I've been re editing and encoding my video library and my new practice is to have a watermark pop up periodically in different parts of the video in different locations. It's distracting but only lasts for 1.5 seconds so if someone is watching my video and wants to know who its from they can pause the video and see.


That raises an interesting issue of where the best location is for a content owner to watermark their video. From what I've seen the bottom left corner is the corner that's least likely to have a watermark put over it.

[gaybucks_chip]

Titan made a comment on one of the threads that Ning had a battery of $1000/hour lawyers who had carefully crafted everything to fit right through the DMCA safe harbor exceptions, making it extremely difficult to go after them.

The disappointing part is Mark Andressen, founder of Ning and also the author of the original web browser Mosaic, which became Netscape, and eventually Mozilla / Firefox, has a reputation for being a "good guy." I'm surprised that he is standing by and having no concerns about piracy and its effects on others.

[Squirt]

Are we witnessing part of the business world where people are opportunistic within the law and doing great damage for little gain just because they can?


Titan made a comment on one of the threads that Ning had a battery of $1000/hour lawyers who had carefully crafted everything to fit right through the DMCA safe harbor exceptions, making it extremely difficult to go after them.

The disappointing part is Mark Andressen, founder of Ning and also the author of the original web browser Mosaic, which became Netscape, and eventually Mozilla / Firefox, has a reputation for being a "good guy." I'm surprised that he is standing by and having no concerns about piracy and its effects on others.

[gaydemon]

sounds very much like it. I know myspace or godaddy does exactly that, they dont give a toss about copyrights or even trademarks. Just like some other big online companies. One law for them and another for the rest of us it seems.


Are we witnessing part of the business world where people are opportunistic within the law and doing great damage for little gain just because they can?