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CalModels · 2007-03-30, 05:23 PM

ronnie, true, there is that risk...

My thinking is, as far as policing the content goes, anything that does not look like its been produced professionally is OK (ie, stuff that does not contain what looks like professional models, or a professional photoshoot etc)... setup a few people and give them rights to moderate user uploads to follow those guidelines, and have a pretty open system that if anyone disputes that content is copyright, remove it right away so the copyright holders dont have lost income because someone uploaded it saying it was their own... sort of like a "best intent" basis... I know its iffy..

As for the community, Ive been looking at some of the other "user upload" sites like the ones mentioned above, and there appears to be quite a bit of amateur content in this niche... all lumped into a "general" category...

Ofcourse, hindsight is always 20-20, this may eventually attract leechers and not any actual uploaders, guess will have to rethink the intent of the site if that happens and which direction it goes at that point.... if there is enough of a userbase but not enough uploaders, than maybe take it more mainstream?

Guess what I am saying by all that rambling is, dont know yet, will have to see how the crow flies

But I figure, since I have a bunch of servers kicking around and dont have to worry about how much bandwidth I chew up, no harm in giving this the old college try... who knows, maybe this will become a viable income stream?

2007-03-30, 05:23 PM	#10
CalModels Trying is the first step towards failure Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 122	ronnie, true, there is that risk... My thinking is, as far as policing the content goes, anything that does not look like its been produced professionally is OK (ie, stuff that does not contain what looks like professional models, or a professional photoshoot etc)... setup a few people and give them rights to moderate user uploads to follow those guidelines, and have a pretty open system that if anyone disputes that content is copyright, remove it right away so the copyright holders dont have lost income because someone uploaded it saying it was their own... sort of like a "best intent" basis... I know its iffy.. As for the community, Ive been looking at some of the other "user upload" sites like the ones mentioned above, and there appears to be quite a bit of amateur content in this niche... all lumped into a "general" category... Ofcourse, hindsight is always 20-20, this may eventually attract leechers and not any actual uploaders, guess will have to rethink the intent of the site if that happens and which direction it goes at that point.... if there is enough of a userbase but not enough uploaders, than maybe take it more mainstream? Guess what I am saying by all that rambling is, dont know yet, will have to see how the crow flies But I figure, since I have a bunch of servers kicking around and dont have to worry about how much bandwidth I chew up, no harm in giving this the old college try... who knows, maybe this will become a viable income stream? __________________ My Amateur Calgary Models Last edited by CalModels; 2007-03-30 at 05:34 PM..