Saturday, January 20, 2007

Join the Cause!

Welcome

First of all .. thanx for visiting my Blog. For information on how it all began visit my Squidoo Lens. Also read my previous posts to really understand what is going on and how it affects everyone that likes being part of a community or sharing personal videos.

How can you help?

BLOGGERS. If you are a dedicated part of a Blogging community surf around looking for people promoting TheVideoSense and report their Blogs as Spam. At the very bottom of this page you will find a link to get their Blogs on Blogger removed. This will most likely also cancel their AdSense account. On wordpress it is even easier to do. Just contact support.

MOVIEMAKERS. Since TheVideoSense (and various other companies) really rely on your embed code it is easy to frustrate the rippers a bit. Already they have tens of thousands of your videos linked in their pages to make money. You can just stop allowing others to use your embed code for a while. Use this on your videos you have spent most time on. That way people will have to go to your upload service to watch it and their pages will be swamped with pages that say .. cannot display this video or something.

Q: What else can be done?
A: Spread the word to your friends!

Q:Does reporting actually work?
A:Yes! Check out what combined effort can do in the picture below.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

youtube user videos being ripped off by www.thevideosense.com


I sent a letter to Youtube and Google Video to make them aware of the questionable practices by www.thevideosense.com

They actually urge people to take tons of embeds from Youtube and can display them as being "their" videos. All this is done so they can make money with Adsense. Videosense even provides a new embed for the videos. If you already have discovered people using your video uploads for this, please leave a comment. Any other feedback is welcome as well.

Here is the letter:

Dear Youtube,

Are you aware that http://www.thevideosense.com/ is urging people to rip youtube and googlevideo movies to make money with Adsense?

They are clearly violating ownership rules and probably many of your other good policies. They also create new embeds for your videos and allow their users to add their own comments to the material of other people. Their users are also encouraged to create tons of Spam Blogs. I have also contacted Google Adsense and Video about this.

For more information visit http://Scammbuster.blogspot.com

Kind regards,

Scammbuster


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