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Originally Posted by Paul
People need to get more creative in protecting their material, we've had the same lazy placement of watermarks in the bottom right corner of videos for over a decade now by most people.
Time to start being more agressive with watermarks and their placement i.e. Having watermarks in the middle of the screen for 20 seconds every couple of minutes with the watermarks changing positions each time etc.
I just find it amazing that the majority of people haven't adapted their strategy with watermarks when this shit has been going on for years with the tubes. I'll also add this point because someone will make the point "The customers don't like that"
Spend a bit of money, make some impressive animated graphical watermarks that look awesome, check out Youtube there are 1000s of people creating amazing videos with a high end professional look.
Honestly even as a surfer it frustrates me the removal of watermarks from tube sites, there has been a number of times I've seen a video and thought "What site is that from" because I wanna check the site but can't because the watermark has been removed.
Hopefully I've made my 2000th post a useful one!
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Well, we can get as creative with watermarks as we want, have them jump around the screen, do all kinds of things. But guess WHAT? You do that and the tubes will reject your videos! So we ARE - some of us - trying to "adapt" but how can we when the end site (the tubes) sets the rules? Hmmm??
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Originally Posted by Dankasaur
Are you fucking mental? Do you really think SOPA and PIPA are about making porn free? I think you need to go look into those bills and why people like Alexis Ohanian and Google were fighting against SOPA and PIPA... And it has NOTHING to do with porn.
Now you're just using conspiracy like theories to justify why LEGAL tubes are still up.
And ruining the business? Sorry to burst your bubble but it's far from ruining the business...
RIAA said that fucking tapes were ruining the music industry because anybody could just tape their favorite songs from the radio... Doesn't look like the industry is dead now does it? They've just moved onto MP3's as the problem... Yet people who have embraced the way music delivery is going have came out on top... But let me guess, you're gonna say NIN is just backing up pirates by giving their music away for free right?
Wrong, NIN has made more money by putting their music up for free on their own site than they ever did selling CD's, tapes, or anything else and that's saying something considering how HUGE NIN was in the 90's.
Stop fucking blaming other shit because you can't change and adapt to how the industry is moving.
There's tons of people who stopped fighting the tubes and work with them and are now making great money. Just because you're to fucking bullheaded to figure that out doesn't mean the whole fucking internet is trying to make porn free.
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You Sir have NO IDEA how much money NIN is making now as opposed to when they were huge in the 1990's. And when it comes to CDs the band (like ALL bands then) had record contracts and had to split revenue with the record companies. Now they can cut the labels out and release songs on their own BUT you STILL have ZERO idea how much NIN is making, and in relation to past success.
I work with the tubes, they generally treat me well. But I ALSO find my own videos with watermarks removed and have to DMCA my "friends" at the tubes! So it happens to everyone.
The bigger problem now with tubes and watermarked-removed videos? Playlists and channels. Now a tube surfer can grab video after video, start a channel or a playlist (or both) so now, instead of searching for videos on the tubes you can just go to a single page and voila! Hundreds of videos.
(The 'related videos' section on most tubes is a major problem, too; underneath one of your "legal" videos are usually a ton of un-watermarked "related" vids on YOUR video page! So the surfer just bounces around until he's spermed out then leaves. Horrible situation and we should be lobbying to change this practice.)