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Sponsor content needs to be used in the VERY narrow confines of promoting the program. If you run a "skim" TGP, you need to set up certain galleries as 100% show, and use others (ie, content you have paid for) as higher skim to make up for it.
If your program cannot handle that, then I suggest you don't use sponsor content,
The use of sponsor content to promote another site, even if that other site is not a membership site is an invalid use of the content.
This isn't a question of "this sort of TGP is easier to promote / market / gain traffic on that that sort of TGP". Both types are valid business models, apparently. Using sponsor content on an uncontrolled "skim all listings" TGP is obviously in violation of the terms of use of that content (and thumbs generated from it). We are not discussing business models, we are discussing permitted use.
How hard is it to understand?
That there are sponsors out there that tolerate this sort of situation is up to those sponsors.
This guy should not have done what he did. Torn acted agressively and zealously as any copyright holder should to protect the images and to assure that use only as permitted.
HE WROTE THE RULES. YOU DON'T LIKE THE RULES, DON'T USE HIS CONTENT. IF YOU LIKE THE CONTENT, FOLLOW THE RULES.
How hard is it?
Alex
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