Is skimming using hosted galleries thumbs legal?

[DangerDave]

Jason,

It would have been a really good idea to read the other thread before posting here... the question here is very specific.. and I know I dont need a lecture on CJ TGPs.

Everyone wants traffic, that's how we make money (all of us, yes, it's true).

Big difference! My traffic comes to me because "they want to be there" yours is forced

Skimming is the only way a tgp will work these days.

Wrong! That is so NOT true.. but seems to be a myth subscribed to by CJTGP'ers to justify their practices.

There's a circle of about 20 of them that feed into each other and that's that. No outsiders allowed.

? Maybe that is because "you" wil jerk their traffic around and piss the surfer off.

I'm not going to name names, but it's very clear that some of the posts in here are from people who know nothing about tgp's and how to build one

- No.. building a TGP "your way" is ONE way to do it.. There are others and all are legitimate.

But if you are only getting 2500 uniques/day... .<snip> ....you may as well take the sites down.

- Didn't you just say.. "Everyone wants traffic" - why is a smller number a reason to take a site down?

One way of doing that is to add some small annoyances like traffic redirects. I realize that there are some people here from the "Surfers Union for Hassle Free Porn" and think that sucks, but why buy the cow if the milk is free?

There are "positive" way to sell to surfers, that support the market and not destroy the opinion of surfers. Negative selling only makes the market more difficult to sell to.

DD
(This is of course 'my opinion', and the "you" used is a generalisation)