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Originally posted by Greenguy
Holy Fuck! 
No one said that skimming is illegal, but back in the day when it all started, there were no "thumb TGP's" & it was just a skim off a text link. Personally, I'm not one to fuck over my surfers with blind links in the hopes that others will fuck over their surfers with other blind links & maybe one of them will buy something when they get fucked & sent to my site. I prefer good old fashioned hard work & marketing skills to get sales.
Now you have webmasters posting a copyrighted image but not sending all the traffic to that site & IMHO that is illegal.
In this case, you also had all kinds of alarms going off because of the malicious pop-up's that came when you clicked as well.
Put yourself in Torn's shoes - you shot this content - it's for your personal website - you see one of the images on someone else's site & click on it, thinking that you'll be going to a gallery on your server. You then get sent to a top list or some other site & have your spyware alarm's going off left & right. You'd be pissed too!
If other sponsor's & content providers want to allow this, that's great - good for them! But we are not talking about anyone other than Torn & Kat! Their website, their content - THEIR RULES!
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TGP's don't "skim" traffic to be crafty..they do it to fuel trades and encourage growth. Why a sponsor would want to limit the growth of a potentially endless stream of traffic is beyond me. That "skim" can mean the difference between 1000 people going to see that sponsor's gallery and 100,000 people. If the way TGPS are grown and administrated are a problem, by all means it's Torn and Kat's perrogative to discontinue allowing people to use the content in this way.. But it's funny when you realize a lot of the really big programs come to people like us and trust us with their content to brand their girls and their sites. There IS a reason for this, you know.