DirectNic Demands SlicksNetwork.com Hand Over Model IDs

[gonzo]

This is a damn good debate.

No one here worrying about me fitting into cars, calling people snitches or worried if I have access....

While I admite DirectNic's ethical stance Im not sure how all of this will shake out.

This does bring to light a lot of the proposed 2257 changes specifically secondary producer issues.

For instance its illegal to copy a drivers license in the state of Georgia.

Then there are several stalking issues that stem from this if you have to give up the models ID to any secondary producer.

Im not certain where DirectNic is going with all of this. Its certainly an issue that all need to stay informed of.

[softball]

Originally Posted by gonzo

This is a damn good debate.

No one here worrying about me fitting into cars, calling people snitches or worried if I have access....

While I admite DirectNic's ethical stance Im not sure how all of this will shake out.

This does bring to light a lot of the proposed 2257 changes specifically secondary producer issues.

For instance its illegal to copy a drivers license in the state of Georgia.

Then there are several stalking issues that stem from this if you have to give up the models ID to any secondary producer.

Im not certain where DirectNic is going with all of this. Its certainly an issue that all need to stay informed of.

I really think they are trying to move out of the adult business and make a clean break.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by gonzo

For instance its illegal to copy a drivers license in the state of Georgia.

Since when? When I bought property with cash they copied my license and when I bought my house and later refinanced my house they copied my license - done by attorneys whom I'm pretty sure know the laws.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Since when? When I bought property with cash they copied my license and when I bought my house and later refinanced my house they copied my license - done by attorneys whom I'm pretty sure know the laws.

Look it up. I guarantee you it is the case.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by gonzo

Look it up. I guarantee you it is the case.

You made the statement - YOU look it up. I have a puppy chewing up all my furniture I have to deal with.

[gonzo]

Originally Posted by Peaches

You made the statement - YOU look it up. I have a puppy chewing up all my furniture I have to deal with.

I already know its the case.

Your the one disputing it not me.

[Peaches]

Well, a quick Google shows Kennesaw University asking for a copy of your Georgia driver's license. So far, that's a state university and 4 lawyers who are saying it's OK.

Feel free to show otherwise

Edited to add - it seems all the state colleges require a copy of your Georgia Driver's license. Maybe you need to let them know that's illegal. Need the names and numbers of my attorneys too?

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by Peaches

Well, a quick Google shows Kennesaw University asking for a copy of your Georgia driver's license. So far, that's a state university and 4 lawyers who are saying it's OK.

Feel free to show otherwise

The laws will differ state-to-state, and if I'm not wrong, schools are by extension government (or at least partially government-funded) agencies who are ruled and regulated by government agencies.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by LadyMischief

The laws will differ state-to-state, and if I'm not wrong, schools are by extension government (or at least partially government-funded) agencies who are ruled and regulated by government agencies.

True, but then why are my attorneys getting it too? Doncha think at least ONE of the 4 would know the state law?? 2 were in the last 2 months, BTW. The other two were 5 and 4 years ago.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by gonzo

For instance its illegal to copy a drivers license in the state of Georgia.

Copy it without permission? Yeah, that would likely be covered under the Open Records Act as DMV records are specifically excluded in the state of Georgia.

But if you're saying it's illegal to copy it if someone voluntarily supplies it to you, then I call bullshit unless you can find the statute. If it's true, it's violated left and right by everyone including the state.

Everyone from the DOL on down asks you to supply a "government issued photo id" which they copy for their records as proof they checked it. They dont say it HAS to be drivers license, but that is typically the ONLY government issued photo id most people carry with them.

Because there is protected personal information on a driver's license, privacy laws would also dictate how that copy would be stored, who can access it, etc.

But as far as I know if I hand you my driver's license for you to copy, there's nothing illegal.

Now a tip for anyone who ever wants to take issue with people who ask for it, you can get a state provided "photo identification card" that is totally separate from your driver's license. In Georgia, you get it at the DMV, same basic process as driver's license (need to provide birth certificate, etc) you just dont have to take the driver's test.

[softball]

I have a bit of an issue with Directnic's silence. They seem to be dealing with this the same way they did when accused of kiting. They ignored it. Maybe it is a good business strategy, but in the long run, I don't think it is effective. Once maybe, but twice or more is just ducking. Or, like I said earlier, are they trying to bail on adult and come out fighting in the straight market.

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

I have a bit of an issue with Directnic's silence. They seem to be dealing with this the same way they did when accused of kiting. They ignored it. Maybe it is a good business strategy, but in the long run, I don't think it is effective. Once maybe, but twice or more is just ducking. Or, like I said earlier, are they trying to bail on adult and come out fighting in the straight market.

Again signs point to there being something going on we do not know.

Unless their domain portfolio is balanced radically different from how I think it is, dumping adult and going after the likes of GoDaddy, etc for mainstream marketshare doesn't seem too bright. Only way that would make sense would be if they have a potential mainstream buyer on the hook who is asking them to clean things up.

Let's say a public company was looking to buy them, only a matter of time before competitors clue in the media and it's leaked that Directnic is home to A LOT of porn domains. This makes public company look bad and brings questions from shareholders and media that they do not want. Now paint the same scenario but arm your PR team with the actions Directnic is doing right now.

Kinda makes you go hmmmmmm.....

[AnotherGrogan]

I found the thread at "GFY" (heheh, nice acronym) and read through most of it. Well I had to skip some of the pages in the middle because it's just too many and too much bickering. Time for bed, delirium setting in. There's lots I hadn't considered, but I haven't really changed my opinion.

I see my post got quoted and scrutinized there as well. I'm not going to register there, but I can assure you that no, adult sites have nothing to do with my business. I'm a "surfer" in terms of not being an adult site operator but I'm a surfer that knows a thing or ten about how the Internet works. Some of us techies like to look at galleries too. Mr. Presumptuous over there is welcome to a nice steaming cup of "Shut the Heck Up". Tasty stuff. I know

[LadyMischief]

Ok, I think I do need to make a statement about TGP, since I know the vast majority of people here have limited experience with the medium, and probably know even less about running one/maintaining trades.


Anyone who's ever run a tgp knows that it's a full time job. If you run a NETWORK of them, even moreso. Some of these tgps have HUNDREDS of trades, it's the way that they ensure traffic growth to their own sites. Each trade has to be hand-reviewed before it's put in, and TGP owners have to continually go BACK to these trades to make sure what's put there is NOT illegal or offensive (such as CP). Oftentimes only going to a site once you will NOT neccessarily see anything that would be offensive, and MANY times these assholes who run the tgps/networks that DO offer CP do NOT put those things into place until AFTER they establish trades with people. So let me give a scenario that might make people realize that Slick as much as his diligence would have helped, also fell victim in a way to something that happens to tgp people on a consitant basis.

Let's lay out the scenario. I'm a tgp owner looking for trades or adding trades to my site.. Someone sends me an email or contacts me looking for a trade (or perhaps even enters it into an automatic form that some scripts have for trades). I review the site and everything looks good, so I add him into my trade system (this is where the skims go, that percentage can be changed, but only within a certain median if it's going to maintain site growth). He putters in my trades for a while, I don't go back to check every day, I have 500 trades, I can't review them all daily. I have my hands full going through the 10,000+ galleries sitting in queue from chameleon submitter people and other submits. So the trade I added starts putting up CP, and suddenly my skims/trades are CP sites, even though they weren't when I added them. I wouldn't know this unless a) I went to my trades every day, b) someone reported it to me or c) one of my trades reported the problem or posted somewhere and they let me know. It's not like it's something that's in their face every second.

Not to mention the fact that most tgp scripts run some sort of thumb rotator, so two different people going to a page will NOT neccessarily see the same thumbs, and this can make it even MORE difficult to detect potential difficulties within the trades. Slick can be responsible for what is on his own network, and he can do his BEST to stay on top of his trades, but in reality, he may not ever have known that his trades had CP or "virtual" CP on them. It would have been very likely in fact that he never had a clue.

Just throwing this out there because people are very quick to hold Slick to the fire for his "affiliations" without actually realizing everything that's involved in that process. Due diligence would have helped him a lot, but in all honesty I can see very well how he wouldn't have gone and reviewed every trade on every site on his network on a consistant enough basis to weed out problem trades. I can almost guarantee there are a dozen other tgps right now trading traffic with the sites Slick is getting nailed for trading with, and they don't even realize what's on those sites.

(Remember the trades I'm talking about are the "redirects", that's the TGP skim, it's a percentage of traffic that tgp owners trade around to promote the growth of their systems... If a script sends 2 hits to so and so, their script will send him hits back, and it's this kind of traffic trades that grow tgps).

[sarettah]

Originally Posted by LadyMischief

Slick can be responsible for what is on his own network, and he can do his BEST to stay on top of his trades, but in reality, he may not ever have known that his trades had CP or "virtual" CP on them. It would have been very likely in fact that he never had a clue.

All well said LM and I would agree with most of what you said.

However, I saw the thumbs that were running on one of slicks sites, I never went through to the galleries.

There was no excuse for the thumbs I saw. They were clearly targetting one type of customer and one type only.

Putting aside DN's legal right versus Slick's legal right etc for a second. My personal viewpoint is that anyone targetting that particular market is as bad as the customers in that particular market and the producers of that particular market and any so called "legal" sites or illegal sites that cater to that market. They should all die a very slow painful death and I personally don't give a fuck what anyone does to them legal or illegal. I do not care how we get rid of them, I just want them gone.

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by AnotherGrogan

I found the thread at "GFY" (heheh, nice acronym) and read through most of it. Well I had to skip some of the pages in the middle because it's just too many and too much bickering. Time for bed, delirium setting in. There's lots I hadn't considered, but I haven't really changed my opinion.

I see my post got quoted and scrutinized there as well. I'm not going to register there, but I can assure you that no, adult sites have nothing to do with my business. I'm a "surfer" in terms of not being an adult site operator but I'm a surfer that knows a thing or ten about how the Internet works. Some of us techies like to look at galleries too. Mr. Presumptuous over there is welcome to a nice steaming cup of "Shut the Heck Up". Tasty stuff. I know

You are in Ontario too and seem like a super smart guy. I'd love to chat with you.. Please email me, treasure@homegrownvideo.com Seems to me I could use a "surfer" with your kind of smarts for something I'm working on You can also hit me up on icq 3522039.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

But if you're saying it's illegal to copy it if someone voluntarily supplies it to you, then I call bullshit unless you can find the statute. If it's true, it's violated left and right by everyone including the state.

I'm still waiting for his proof. I guess he's been working the last 24 hours.