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Doctor Sticky · 2006-03-27, 12:38 AM

Guys,

Thanks for the concern. We created the script the way we did because we are adult webmasters ourselves and we want to be able to acquire and post content rapidly on our own sites. We agree that very few webmasters who purchase the script will read the EULA, however placing the message where we did, in the terms we did, is as much warning as we can reasonably offer. There are dozens of sponsors which provide to their affiliates usernames and passwords for the actual members section of the paysite and the only way to acquire that content without a script like this is your right mouse button and a great deal of patience. So rest assured that there is a legitimate purpose for this feature being in place.

To address the problem more directly, consider a webmaster who does not have a script like this. He can either act in accordance with his sponsors' rules and grab a zip file, unpack it, upload it, and make a gallery in HTML, or he can illegitimately take some content from an FHG or a members' area, upload it, and make a gallery in HTML. The amount of time required to do these two tasks is comparable and the webmaster may very well choose either one, but he knows ahead of time that one is legitimate, while the other might very well cause his account to be terminated.

Now consider a webmaster who does have this script or one like it. Like before, he can either acquire images from a zip file or he can break the rules and snag them from somewhere else. Neither one is particularly difficult, but one of them is allowed and the other isn't. Nothing really changes here -- it still takes the same amount of effort to create the gallery either way and the only difference is ethics.

So I guess I really fail to see how the script can encourage its users to break the rules when it simplifies legitimate gallery creation just as much as it facilitates unethical conduct, and the features which do make "breaking the rules" easier also in many cases simplify acceptable behavior.

Again, there are pleny of sponsors who allow affiliates to use images from FHGs in galleries on their websites. There is nothing unethical or illegal about that. It is up to the individual webmaster to know which images they have the rights to post.

2006-03-27, 12:38 AM	#7
Doctor Sticky Rock stars ... is there anything they don't know? Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 16	Guys, Thanks for the concern. We created the script the way we did because we are adult webmasters ourselves and we want to be able to acquire and post content rapidly on our own sites. We agree that very few webmasters who purchase the script will read the EULA, however placing the message where we did, in the terms we did, is as much warning as we can reasonably offer. There are dozens of sponsors which provide to their affiliates usernames and passwords for the actual members section of the paysite and the only way to acquire that content without a script like this is your right mouse button and a great deal of patience. So rest assured that there is a legitimate purpose for this feature being in place. To address the problem more directly, consider a webmaster who does not have a script like this. He can either act in accordance with his sponsors' rules and grab a zip file, unpack it, upload it, and make a gallery in HTML, or he can illegitimately take some content from an FHG or a members' area, upload it, and make a gallery in HTML. The amount of time required to do these two tasks is comparable and the webmaster may very well choose either one, but he knows ahead of time that one is legitimate, while the other might very well cause his account to be terminated. Now consider a webmaster who does have this script or one like it. Like before, he can either acquire images from a zip file or he can break the rules and snag them from somewhere else. Neither one is particularly difficult, but one of them is allowed and the other isn't. Nothing really changes here -- it still takes the same amount of effort to create the gallery either way and the only difference is ethics. So I guess I really fail to see how the script can encourage its users to break the rules when it simplifies legitimate gallery creation just as much as it facilitates unethical conduct, and the features which do make "breaking the rules" easier also in many cases simplify acceptable behavior. Again, there are pleny of sponsors who allow affiliates to use images from FHGs in galleries on their websites. There is nothing unethical or illegal about that. It is up to the individual webmaster to know which images they have the rights to post. __________________ PornSpinner.com [Register/Submit] :: DoctorSticky.com [Submit]