Content thief at HotMovies!

[OneWhoKnows]

Hey everyone!

Well, just my third post at Oprano - but already pretty heavy, huh?

I recently started to promote MovieDollars through an own custom theater and one day a friend of mine, who is a content producer, hit me up on ICQ and said "hey man, you have some of my content at your new VOD site, and I never gave anyone the right to re-sell it". Of course I was like WTF - and checked it. He was true. I spotted a lot of content from a few (mostly Russian) affiliate programs which they use on exclusive sites and some Russian DVD's aswell, with the chance being pretty high that they haven't been licensed aswell, as that guy claims it to be his content.

So, if you're a program owner - and especially a Russian program owner - check that link at hotmovies, if your content is among the stuff he sells there aswell. This guy, calling himself "N-Studio" has to be stopped. And sadly my friend told me that HotMovies hasn't been very cooperative aswell so far.

http://www.hotmovies.com/studio/1167/N-Studio

So, have a look and tell me what you think about it. I'd say:

[spazlabz]

Great Info OneWhoKnows! Gotta stop the content thieves the bastards!!


spaz

[James_Hotmovies]

We appreciate you bringing these items to our attention.

I spoke to your friend last week, and again this week. I sent the concerns on to our studio team as soon as Gary told me and again this week.

When disputes arise it takes a few days to investigate the allogations and resolve the issue.

I believe this issue will be resolved by Monday or Tuesday.

Please, if you do see content that is questionable let us know.

[Jace]

wait, so does this mean I can find some lonely studio in the middle of no where that isn't on any VOD sites, rip their movies, add my watermark to them and claim them as my own, and submit them to all the VOD sites as my own?


damn, that would be some major bucks

[OneWhoKnows]

Originally Posted by Jace

wait, so does this mean I can find some lonely studio in the middle of no where that isn't on any VOD sites, rip their movies, add my watermark to them and claim them as my own, and submit them to all the VOD sites as my own?


damn, that would be some major bucks

To me it looks like this is exactly what that "N-Studio" guy did. The only thing I'm asking myself is how he was able to fool HotMovies. Probably, like I said before, fake documents - because I can't imagine a large reputable company like them would publish content without documents.

[OneWhoKnows]

Originally Posted by James_Hotmovies

We appreciate you bringing these items to our attention.

I spoke to your friend last week, and again this week. I sent the concerns on to our studio team as soon as Gary told me and again this week.

When disputes arise it takes a few days to investigate the allogations and resolve the issue.

I believe this issue will be resolved by Monday or Tuesday.

Please, if you do see content that is questionable let us know.

Hey James!

That's good to hear, and I think Gary will be more than happy about this. The only question I have is, why is it impossible to take the content in question down in such a case until it's sorted out? Because when I checked it the last time everything was still up!

[helix]

Originally Posted by OneWhoKnows

Hey James!

That's good to hear, and I think Gary will be more than happy about this. The only question I have is, why is it impossible to take the content in question down in such a case until it's sorted out? Because when I checked it the last time everything was still up!

Yes, taking the content down would be the proper way to handle it.

[James_Hotmovies]

I'm fairly sure the content in question was removed.