Re:Show HN: Spotter – Search for copies of videos on the int...
by Silhouette on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @12:37PM
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If people want to steal your content, it's going to be stolen. You cannot solve that.
Man who say something cannot be done should not interrupt man who is doing it.
We're talking about small producers operating in niche markets here, not the latest Hollywood summer blockbuster, Taylor Swift album or Game of Thrones episode. You can't just go onto YouTube and find our stuff, except on the rare occasions when someone's managed to post a little of it for a short time before we get it taken down.
The downside of this is that I'm writing this from a normal house, not a luxury yacht somewhere nice and sunny.
The upside is that most of our customers don't know how to save/share our stuff, and the few who do stick out like a sore thumb in their access patterns and can rapidly be cut off. The biggest real world threat to us is not acting quickly on those or the redistribution they attempt, meaning we wind up losing other potential customers to rips of our stuff with someone else's branding/advertising slapped all over them.
It's better to spend your time making more content and better content so your paying customers pay more and refer more paying friends.
No, it isn't. The evidence in our case is beyond any doubt. Of course we would much rather be making new content and doing more for our paying customers, but we can't afford to just ignore the small minority of abusers.
Man who say something cannot be done should not interrupt man who is doing it.
We're talking about small producers operating in niche markets here, not the latest Hollywood summer blockbuster, Taylor Swift album or Game of Thrones episode. You can't just go onto YouTube and find our stuff, except on the rare occasions when someone's managed to post a little of it for a short time before we get it taken down.
The downside of this is that I'm writing this from a normal house, not a luxury yacht somewhere nice and sunny.
The upside is that most of our customers don't know how to save/share our stuff, and the few who do stick out like a sore thumb in their access patterns and can rapidly be cut off. The biggest real world threat to us is not acting quickly on those or the redistribution they attempt, meaning we wind up losing other potential customers to rips of our stuff with someone else's branding/advertising slapped all over them.
It's better to spend your time making more content and better content so your paying customers pay more and refer more paying friends.
No, it isn't. The evidence in our case is beyond any doubt. Of course we would much rather be making new content and doing more for our paying customers, but we can't afford to just ignore the small minority of abusers.