Someone Is Stealing DTube Videos For Dailymotion
I’m in my dressing gown as I’m writing this because I woke up really early this morning and the central heating is taking a while to kick in following a cold night. No, I’m not that dedicated to Steemit/DTube. My mother’s flight arrived at 4 am this morning and she called me to inform me of that fact, as mothers do.
Now that I’m awake, I thought I should get on with today’s work especially since I have a deadline on an article I have to finish today!
Quick update on the alleged content thief. I have contacted Dailymotion and requested my videos be removed from their site. They have contacted be back, quite promptly surprisingly, but asking for more verification of my identity.
I am happy to verify my identity, but I have an issue with the level of detail the are demanding; which includes home address and an official photo ID - meaning Passport or Drivers License. These are highly private pieces of information that I am not willing to give to an irresponsible company over email. The fact that they’d even ask for that over email is in and of itself a sign of their irresponsibility and lack of regard for our privacy.
I have pushed back on the request and am now trying to find a way of verifying my identity without blatantly sending them my data, which will be hacked guaranteed within the month. I’ll let you know how that goes.
Now have to go do some serious writing. I also need to photograph these lenses for the article because I am writing a review of them since I’ve been using them over a couple of years. They are vintage lenses from old film cameras.
Peace and Love ✌🏿
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That sounds ruuuuude man. Can you provide the name of the theft on dailymotion so I could check if my content is also there? Thanks man
Your content is probably there. "Best Videos en" on Dailymotion
I'm sorry about everything that's going on, @adetorrent, but don't violate your privacy. I hope you resolve it as soon as possible. Greetings, a hug.
thanks haha.
Dailymotion is chock full of stolen content. I really don't know if anyone is making money from that site or not. Highly doubt the spam/bot channels that stole these DTube vids would qualify for monetization because no one is watching them on DM. Still sucks to have your work stolen. I'm surprised they got back to you so soon, or at all, haha. I hope they'll be smart and take those channels down for stealing.
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I've even heard back intraday from two of the support staff. It seems the customer service is actually great, but they company polices are the problem. They are prompt and polite, so I'm being polite back :)
Unfortunate to see people trying to take shortcuts based on others work. It is ridiculous that they are requested information if you are the victim. It shows their lack of professionalism for sure. Wish you the best in getting it resolved as it is best to have our content protected as we proceed in growing our presence in the ecosystem.
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People will always do that. It's pretty much part of the game now. If you put out content publicly, expect it to be misused or stolen by someone. That's just a given. However if there is a way to push back, then we should take it and follow through. Thanks.
Dailymotion has been around a long time. It was one of the early alternatives to YouTube. I think they were originally based in France. I first signed up in 2006, but never uploaded anything there :)
I'll report on what happens.
Really sorry to hear this, I hope you get it sorted out.
It will. The company has annoyed me, so now they have to deal with my unrelenting ways :)
Well I've never heard of daily motion but that is terrible. I'm not sure what you can do other than what you just said. I'd like to see what your result ends up being.
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That sucks, but I do hope you find a way around and solve the issue nice and clean. Good luck
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I will win. It's just a matter of time :)
Yeh they have ine of mine on there from 8 months ago...
The intro still says Bobaphet, on the DTube set though, so free advertising? 😜
Peace.
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While that is true, the idea that someone else is getting paid for your efforts doesn't sit well with most people.
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LOL yeah. All mine say "hey DTube! Adetorrent here ..." :)
This is so disheartening, just getting to know about this site... heading on there to check it out.
Your idea of sending in a video proof of your identity is way much better and I wish for a positive outcome soonest.
I guess this one more reason why the EU is pushing for Article 13 which may end up 'shutting down' the internet as we know it!
I heard the news yesterday but I did not care to check. I don't know, its not proper that some is doing this but going through the stress you mentioned, having to give important details about yourself for your posts that were stolen to be taken down is really not worth it. Twitter is a place for outrage, things like this would be addressed swifty if more people were talking about it. If you ask me, dailymotion or whatever they call themselves are in on this.
Lastly I download a lot of books I cannot afford on some sites for free, which is illegal (in a way). So if someone is benefiting from my content, well, I don't think I have the right to be angry. Maybe I would talk about piracy on my next vlog.
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I don't actually mind people using my content.. I know that's to be expected in a way when we put stuff out there. What this person is doing is basically siphoning most of the videos in the "hot" and "trending" pages of DTube (that's what it seems to me), and uploading it to their channel on DailyMotion presumably for money. That's all out theft.
Dailymotion offers a way to report a video, but the verification process for the person reporting required too much info. However it's not the same the other way round. It's out of that principle that I'm continuing to press on with the request. Otherwise It doesn't actually bother me that much.