SPONSORS: Where the heck are the new banners?

Jel · 2005-06-27, 03:22 AM

This is what I don't get, I gotta be missing something so please someone tell me what that is. If a sponsor - wait, it has FINALLY just come to me. I was going to say, if a sponsor has a hardcore banner they have removed, why do I need to remove it from my server if I personally don't want to, it would be me (if I was in the US) breaking the law right? So I should be allowed to download a hardcore banner and serve it if I wish. So why can't I? Because of course if the sponsor doesn't have the docs then they can't put it up in the first instance for me to download.
Phew, if anyone else was still wondering, there it is (although you're all probably way ahead of me!). I still don't agree with sponsors telling me I need to remove certain banners if it's myself that's hosting them, and I don't fall under the US law, or for people like Jim and Useless Warrior, if they plain don't want to.

venturi · 2005-06-27, 04:55 AM

Layman's opinion: Said sponsor can:
1) File a DMCA against you for copyright infringement, since they have recended said rights to distribute/publish said banner.
2) They can terminate you because their new TOS states you are now inviolation of their policies concerning promotion of their sites.

It's a business decision, not a legal decision, in this situation. If you are using "their" banners then you play by their rules. If you wanna build your own banners with hardcore content then I don't think they can really justify axing you - as long as your marketing is within the confins of their TOS and the bounds of said site's genre.
It's akin to building sites/galleries for Lightspeed (at least a while back) with marketing text saying "Watch Tawny Stone Gag on Big Mongolian Cocks Now!" - false advertising and mis-representation of the sponsor program == you're axed.

Useless · 2005-06-27, 08:27 AM

They can feel free to axe me. If they are pulling the tools necessary to promote them just because they're afraid of a little prison time, fuck them anyway. I think most people realize that I'm far too lazy to build my own banners.

I'm in the process of following MML's advice from Saturday's OTB. I'm adding text links and pulling most banners, starting with Whoring Wives (which now accepts free sites, btw

) but it's not because sponsors have told me to do so. (It's because MML did) I'm a rebel. |viking|

2005-06-27, 04:55 AM	#2
venturi No offence Apu, but when they were handing out religions you must have been out taking a whizz Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: An Oasis atop a High Desert Mesa Posts: 282	Layman's opinion: Said sponsor can: 1) File a DMCA against you for copyright infringement, since they have recended said rights to distribute/publish said banner. 2) They can terminate you because their new TOS states you are now inviolation of their policies concerning promotion of their sites. It's a business decision, not a legal decision, in this situation. If you are using "their" banners then you play by their rules. If you wanna build your own banners with hardcore content then I don't think they can really justify axing you - as long as your marketing is within the confins of their TOS and the bounds of said site's genre. It's akin to building sites/galleries for Lightspeed (at least a while back) with marketing text saying "Watch Tawny Stone Gag on Big Mongolian Cocks Now!" - false advertising and mis-representation of the sponsor program == you're axed. __________________ Please Re-Read The Rules For Sig Files

2005-06-27, 08:27 AM	#3
Useless Certified Nice Person Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Dirty Undies, NY Posts: 11,268	They can feel free to axe me. If they are pulling the tools necessary to promote them just because they're afraid of a little prison time, fuck them anyway. I think most people realize that I'm far too lazy to build my own banners. I'm in the process of following MML's advice from Saturday's OTB. I'm adding text links and pulling most banners, starting with Whoring Wives (which now accepts free sites, btw ) but it's not because sponsors have told me to do so. (It's because MML did) I'm a rebel. \|viking\| __________________ Click here to purchase a bridge I'm selling. Last edited by Useless; 2005-06-27 at 08:29 AM.. Reason: Impeach George Bush

2005-06-27, 03:22 AM	#1
Jel I'm the only guy in the world who has to wake up to have a nightmare Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: London, United Kingdom Posts: 1,895	This is what I don't get, I gotta be missing something so please someone tell me what that is. If a sponsor - wait, it has FINALLY just come to me. I was going to say, if a sponsor has a hardcore banner they have removed, why do I need to remove it from my server if I personally don't want to, it would be me (if I was in the US) breaking the law right? So I should be allowed to download a hardcore banner and serve it if I wish. So why can't I? Because of course if the sponsor doesn't have the docs then they can't put it up in the first instance for me to download. Phew, if anyone else was still wondering, there it is (although you're all probably way ahead of me!). I still don't agree with sponsors telling me I need to remove certain banners if it's myself that's hosting them, and I don't fall under the US law, or for people like Jim and Useless Warrior, if they plain don't want to.