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Has this site become a target of DMCA??

Discussion in 'About phun.org' started by Crusader276, Oct 14, 2009.

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  1. Crusader276

    Crusader276 Legman ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

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    Active members on the Model Forum may noticed that Imagevenue, one of the approved image hosts, has deleted pretty much ALL of the recent image posts here on Phun. :( What worse, this shit started to happened to my UpmyPhotos links. :-x I wonder if this board has become a target of DMCA or the approved hosts?? :15: Have the crews talked to the imagehosts? Anyway, whether the answers be yes or not,     I sincerely suggest all contributors on Model Forum STOP using imagevenue or we may get into bigger troubles. :pat:
     
    Crusader276, Oct 14, 2009
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    haydaddict Smiley King ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 15 Year Member

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    DMCA...whats that?
     
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  3. Crusader276

    Crusader276 Legman ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

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    Digital Millennium Copyright Act

    Definition:
    Code:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA
     
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  4. Perfect4ths

    Perfect4ths ...That's All She Wrote ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Polls Champion 2023

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    **Knocks on wood**

    So far my last ten threads are still up and working. Might not be directed at Phun, but at an individual or specific content or ownership of.
     
    Perfect4ths, Oct 14, 2009
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  5. Twisted86

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    I am curious what exactly are you uploading? This might be a hint of "Stop posting our shit"

    I had such a message last year....where all my megathreads were promptly reported within 6 hours.
     
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  6. S-type

    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    I don't think it's the fault of imagevenue, other than by being an extremely popular imagehost, and consequently a likely target! All the imagehosts seem to say "how quickly, how high and how far?" when the DMCA folk say jump! It's simply not in their interests to do otherwise!
     
    S-type, Oct 14, 2009
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  7. cayne

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    This is neither imagevenue's fault nor our fault. And you also can't be a target of DMCA. It's just a law that copyright holder use to get their content off hosting websites. You need to contact the hoster with a DMCA request, in order to get your content removed.

    It only means that somebody is really busy keeping his content of imagevenue...
     
    cayne, Oct 15, 2009
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    And it would probably have been more sensible to discuss the issue rather than post that we should stop using a long term host in big red letters ;)
     
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    Crusader276 Legman ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

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    Are you suggesting that I reported you post? :mad: No shit. What I meant was to urge the posters on Model Forum not to use that host. As a poster on this board, there's no fucking way I would report other members' posts.
     
    Crusader276, Oct 15, 2009
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  10. bellsouth

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    That's what I think happened to the forst 3 pages and the last 3 pages of my only thread...


     
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    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    It occurred to me after my last comment yesterday that the folder and file names I'd used on imagevenue for the pics that were deleted could not easily have been identified at that end by a DMCA hound, so I have to conclude that the stuff was traced from phun.org itself! Pretty easy to do, and perfectly legit! In which case it makes no difference which imagehost one uses! Those of us who've been affected in the last day or so just happen to be using imagevenue, but the result would have been the same whichever imagehost we'd used!
     
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    Perfect4ths ...That's All She Wrote ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Polls Champion 2023

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    Maybe not even traced from Phun at all, some of these pirates just steal all of your codes and paste them into other forums, eventually either the server requests get out of hand or someone does report them but from another forum, and they get taken down.
     
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    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    I seem to recall the suggestion - last year, was it? - that "quotes" of the first post in a thread be disabled in vBulletin, thereby denying access to the poster's code. I can't remember why it was being considered before, or why it was never implemented, but it may well need considering again! phun stuff is being pirated all over the place!
     
    S-type, Oct 18, 2009
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    Perfect4ths ...That's All She Wrote ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 15 Year Member Original Phun Crew Polls Champion 2023

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    Added to my other requests to Cayne
     
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    S-type Remember to smile! Staff Member ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 15 Year Member

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    ^^^ River is the best adviser on this - it may have been he who suggested it in the first place! He's the resident vBulletin expert!
     
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    A few of my pics from "V i v i d Entertainment" movie scene posts have got the DMCA treatment.
     
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  17. Twisted86

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    Eh? never said you did....I was merely wondering what you were posting that got removed.
     
    Twisted86, Oct 20, 2009
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  18. DemonDave

    DemonDave Been a Phunner since '08! Ten Years of Phun

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    ive just never liked imagevenue.

    prefer imagebam myself....

    as to copying someones post: im a com noob, but isnt that already disabled?
     
    DemonDave, Oct 20, 2009
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    seriously, your only worry with Image Venue is if your the poster they may ban your ip but not phuns. Phun has no liabilities concerning what is displayed here.

    Phun must have grabbed the attn of companies That make money trolling forums for their client, They send the DMCA themselves saving thieir client time.

    I probably remove 2000 images a day due to these companies.
     
    Capster, Oct 24, 2009
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    Crusader276 Legman ★ ★ ☆ ☆ ☆

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    I post nude shots on Model Forum. Sorry for misunderstanding.
     
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