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that’s very true - there’s tons of copyrighted material and very little else on any porn file sharing or tube site i’ve ever seen. putting a rule up doesn’t seem to stop anybody.
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also a service like what you offer has zero value for webmasters…
the only ones that benefit from a service like yours is the surfers that wants to download studio produced movies for free…
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I’d beg to differ, try checking out www.pornhost.com www.yourfilehost.com etc and see the amount of adult webmasters that use these services. When you have 40K video views on just 1 movie, I think the adult webmaster would benefit quite considerably…
I’m not looking to have an argument with people about it, if you’re not interested in the service then that’s fine 
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LOL try and take a look at how much of the stuff that is copyrighted to other people than the ones uploading it and you will see the problem… not that you will care ofcourse…
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I decided to only do qoute some because quite frankly the rest of what you said was just embarrasing. If you want, I can post it all.
I think its outragous you are even in business and think what you do is good for webmasters. You are clearly cashing in on what is ruining our industry. I wont even go into the whole issue with hosting CP content.
[quote=studdrive;25424]Hi Bjorn,
Why not post the full email correspondence we had rather than just part of it…
I think I made it rather clear in the emails that the site is NOT for copyright material or child pornography which is stipulated very clearly in our terms and conditions before a user can even upload…
The site is primarily for adult webmasters looking to host content off there server so they don’t suffer bandwidth costs, can earn money and also receive a new audience they didn’t have before and thus generate more traffic.
The content uploaded is for amateur porn or porn owned by the copyright owner.
You seem intent on damning the service before looking at it properly, all we wanted to find out from you was whether you were able to review the site for the purposes of offering a new service to gay adult webmasters…
Your site is a great looking site but their isn’t a need for these kind of posts from you without any foundation.
Cheers.[/quote]
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[quote=studdrive;25424]
The site is primarily for adult webmasters looking to host content off there server so they don’t suffer bandwidth costs, can earn money and also receive a new audience they didn’t have before and thus generate more traffic. [/quote]
Hello and thank you for joining Gaydemon!
Your service sounds like it has possibilities
What is your name?
What physical address can we send a DMCA notice to if someone has posted our content on your servers?
Thank you and welcome to Gaydemon.
Regards
Tom
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First off, good to see you here and actually posting and trying to get this sorted. I, for one, would like to know how webmasters can benefit from your service, yet at the same time, protect themselves from illegal filesharing activities.
I would also appreciate the answer to Tom’s post above. Its important to the webmaster community that these ‘leading edge’ web 2.0 services have this information freely available, plus have extremely strong warnings against users uploading copyrighted content, and of course, have a good system in place to quickly remove copyrighted materials and resolve issues.
cheers,
Luke
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Hi Luke,
Regarding a couple of the questions, DMCA notices apply for the US, in the EU there are different legislations, so a DMCA notice wouldn’t mean a lot here…However by using the contact form on the site and sending the URL of the file in question we will quickly remove it. It’s in our best interests to do so quickly, because this information can be passed to our servers host and they will then complain to us…
Webmasters benefit from the service by allowing you to earn money from each of your uploads (2 banners of your own on each image or video page), no bandwidth costs for the webmaster, if the webmasters files get into the top 40 files for the day they get greater exposure for their site, we also have a toplist so they can get more returned traffic.
Webmasters also have 30 day statistics in their account which shows stats for each upload made by them.
Cheers,
Tom
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I don’t see anything good in your service.
No real webmaster will use it. Not an affiliate webmaster or site owner webmaster.
Only people that will be using it, is those that already use megarotic, rapidshare etc… that is to share illegal content!
I don’t like your business plan at all. And I don’t know who are you exactly aiming at?
Seriously, NO WEBMASTER will ever use your service. Only a regular Joe!
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I guess I don’t need to point you to sites such as http://pornoamateurs.be/ or numerous others that already use similar services…Or maybe check out the alexa ranking of http://www.pornhost.com
I don’t know why we’re getting so much hostility when we’re offering a free service which we have explained is for AMATEUR / COPYRIGHT OWNERS ONLY / NON CHILD, users…
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You want us to do business with you but you don’t want to give us your full name and address. Why not? Do you have a phone number?
Tom are you a the owner of the site or an employee of the site?
Your site has no corporate information, only an email contact form and you’ve unsuccessfully tried to hide your whois information through a private service. Of the 5 sites on your server, none of them are owned by a “Tom”.
Roy likes to change his last name but leave his address the same on his whois for multiple sites on multiple servers in the Netherlands over the last few years. He seems to like to use the word “wicked” in his email addresses too.
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Hi Squirt,
Sorry your sleuthing hasn’t come to much joy…
Firstly why would anyone put out there name, address and telephone number online to a forum for all public to see, this is ridiculous, I’m not a retailer, I have no reason to do this…If you wish to contact me, contact by email if you wish or through the site.
Secondly, “Roy” is actually an owner of a site hosted by us for a friend, I assume you’re looking at freshjugs.net, so this isn’t my name as I have already posted this on the forums, my name is Tom…
I’ve come here to try and explain the services, I have answered your questions but there seems to be a complete lack of understanding for the service being offered and an ability to post mature responses by a few people here.
As I have said, if you’re not interested in the service then that’s fine, but at least have a constructive conversation rather than just flaming.
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Like I said, none of the domains on your server have ever been registered by anyone named Tom, just Roy Boddeveld and A.M. Van Oosten.
Are you telling me that the checks you pay us with will not have your company name and address on them? Are you going to be paying us by anonymous bank transfer? If you’re server goes down there’s no phone number for us to call you at?
So you are telling me that you want us to start hosting our content for free with someone who promises to pay us but wants to be anonymous, lives in a country where our copyright laws don’t apply and has a disclaimer on his website stating that he can do whatever he wants with our content once we host it there? You are out of your mind!
[quote=studdrive;25471]Hi Squirt,
Sorry your sleuthing hasn’t come to much joy…
Firstly why would anyone put out there name, address and telephone number online to a forum for all public to see, this is ridiculous, I’m not a retailer, I have no reason to do this…If you wish to contact me, contact by email if you wish or through the site.
Secondly, “Roy” is actually an owner of a site hosted by us for a friend, I assume you’re looking at freshjugs.net, so this isn’t my name as I have already posted this on the forums, my name is Tom…
I’ve come here to try and explain the services, I have answered your questions but there seems to be a complete lack of understanding for the service being offered and an ability to post mature responses by a few people here.
As I have said, if you’re not interested in the service then that’s fine, but at least have a constructive conversation rather than just flaming.[/quote]
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OMG that TOS is unbelivable, why would anyone want to release ownership over their content.
How can that possible ever be for webmasters??
[quote=Squirt;25475] “By uploading a file to studdrive you give permission for the owners of studdrive to publish your file in any of their projects or publications. You release all rights to the file, and give full permission to studdrive and its associates to use and publish the file in anyway they wish.”
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I think this is more intended to individuals uploading their private photos and videos.
Seriously, no webmaster is going to be using this “service” anyway. Well, at least not with those TOS
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The BBC use that kind of TOS on their forums etc where users make comments, upload photos etc. It’s quite a normal one to have on a site like this, but I have to agree, it is not likely to be of any use to a genuine webmaster promoting sponsors in this industry.
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Hi,
Squirt - Please understand the concept of the site and actually read the site before posting your comments. WE DON’T PAY YOU…You earn money from whomever you use for your banners on the site, be it a sponsor or an advertising company such as Etology, Adbrite…So no, you don’t have my name on any check and I don’t pay you. My name is TOM, I have no reason to lie about my name, because domains on the server are registered to someone else, doesn’t mean I own them and that my name is Roy, lol…!
Gaydemon_Jr - Yes you are correct, this is a pretty standard TOS which is used on many sites.
Mili - You may be correct where it is useful for personal users only, but with non-gay sites we run we have found that there are a lot of amateur porn sites which need content hosting for movies images. Or if a sponsor wanted to just post a video or images themselves (and they own the copyright ;)) then they could do so.
Cheers,
Tom
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[quote=studdrive;25484]Hi,
Squirt - Please understand the concept of the site and actually read the site before posting your comments. WE DON’T PAY YOU…You earn money from whomever you use for your banners on the site, be it a sponsor or an advertising company such as Etology, Adbrite…So no, you don’t have my name on any check and I don’t pay you. My name is TOM, I have no reason to lie about my name, because domains on the server are registered to someone else, doesn’t mean I own them and that my name is Roy, lol[/quote]
I don’t think there’s anything funny about you wanting to remain anonymous yet claiming ownership of anything posted on your server via your TOS, which completely contradicts your disclaimer.
You even contradict yourself in your TOS:
"studdrive is under no obligation responsible for the content uploaded by the users. "
“You release all rights to the file, and give full permission to studdrive and its associates to use and publish the file in anyway they wish.”
So you have all rights for the files but are not responsible for the content , yeah right
Your TOS specifically states that when we use your service “You release all rights to the file”. You are running a complete scam as a year from now you could start a pay site filled with all the content people have hosted on your servers in the past and claim rights based on your TOS. We know better, but amatuers out there don’t and would have no idea what your true intentions are, this is unfortunate.
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Squirt - Go read some other TOS and then come back to me. I’m not trying to scam anyone, why am I hear answering all your ridiculous allegations?!
So far you’ve accused me of wanting to host illegal content, to not pay people money even though I’ve said you get paid by your banner sponsor/advertiser, I’m now apparently trying to start a pay site with other peoples content and you’re intent on calling me ROY!
Please just stop now…read the site, read the TOS of many sites and read what I’m replying to you!
I’m not responding to any more of your posts Squirt, each one is more ridiculous than the last. I’m just trying to promote our service to any webmasters who are genuinely interested.
Cheers.
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In reading your replies, I have a simple question for you.
What do you have in place, to insure that content uploaded by ‘amateurs’ are in fact, theirs to upload? What do you have in place for conflict resolution, for when there is a conflict as to who has the right to display that content?
If there is only a ‘contact form’ what are the backups for alternative methods of contacting you? I mean that would seem logical, and as you are hosting content, there should be some physical address and contact person, to notify you of conflicts, or illegal material being uploaded.
I think that inability is what has many concerned that this isn’t 100% legit.
Do you for example, monitor all uploads to insure that some CP or objectionable material isn’t being snuck in? We all know pasting warnings about such actions are just cover, and without an active means of checking, is just useless. We all also know that it stops no one from doing just that. So what do you do, to insure your terms are followed?