In this lengthy epistle to the webcamming community I am including here in this forum I will be including information how websites that will not adhere to DMCA requests to have videos taken down can be crushed. There are many websites out there that flaunt their ability to exist beyond the reach of DMCA requests. These sites have been allowed to get away with this attitude because, really, what can be done? It would seem nothing. That's not true. In fact, these sites can be destroyed using their own methods and what they rely on against them. It's not an easy thing to accomplish, but it can be done. Best of all no heavy lifting, no money, and no weird downloads are required; just coordination and dedication. That's the good news. The downside, if you can call it a downside, is it would take time and some effort.
Before I do that though I want to explain why -- as someone who is not a cam model, but a fan of the business, and a fan of what the business can mean for multiple arenas of the sociological spectrum, from the arts to how the internet, and even economies, can work -- this subject interests and concerns me. After I accomplish transmitting these personal sentiments I will very matter-of-factly detail how direct and devastating action can be taken against a disreputable site that fails to take into consideration the people they are hurting after they've been asked to remove specific content yet take no action.
Just after turning thirty a number of years ago, before I was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease I would eventually be diagnosed with, I was crippled for the better part of a year. Nobody could figure out what it was I was dealing with before I was diagnosed. The only thing anyone could figure was that it was Lyme disease. I wound up having to spend six months in bed unable to walk in chronic pain. I was essentially dead to the world. Forced isolation can really take a toll on someone's mental state. Forced isolation while also in chronic pain with no apparent diagnosable reason is even worse. Eventually, I was finally diagnosed and I was put on a medication which got me out of bed and able to walk again and return to the life I had before, but the point is, as a result of the pain and isolation I was on the verge of insanity that year.
The only reason why I did not go insane was that I wasn't completely isolated and cut off from the world. There were livestreaming cam models which allowed me to hold onto the last tendrils of sanity I was dealing with. Nobody was there for me, nobody really could be there for me; people have lives to live and bills to pay. But cam models were there. I never really got into the issues I was dealing with, I didn't have to. Just being able to interact with a living person was enough, even if it was through a digital interface. It helped.
I've heard cam models and cam model advocates say that one of the things they do --as in, one of the services they provide -- is something akin to armchair psychotherapist. Nothing truer could ever be said. So, on that personal note alone, I feel a sense of gratitude to people who take up this kind of work. Those models that were there for me around the time just after I had turned thirty are no longer around. They've moved on and are doing other things. Now, as I'm getting ready to turn forty, as a result of evolving technology, it would seem that the business that saved my sanity is in a transitionary stage and so I write this as a small means of honoring the service that they did for me knowing that in the future there will be others like me, and worse off than me, who may find that cam models may be less of something like a luxury and more like a necessity.
Just speaking socially, though, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about webcamming is how it represents a revolutionary form of how business in adult entertainment can be done, where middlemen and creepy producers are cut out of the process and the fruits that the labor produces goes to the person putting the labor into it and to those who make the distribution of that labor possible (the websites who run the servers and develop the software).
How labor is exploited by ruling rich classes in society in general or in adult entertainment specifically is a subject I can write 100-page essays on, so I won't say too much else about it. But webcamming (potentially) represents a smashing of the old paradigmatic donkey wheel of value being created, or even extracted, by labor being exploited and reaped by the rich and ruling class. In adult entertainment at least. But as history has shown us, as goes "pornography" goes the rest of society.
Therefore, it is incredibly frustrating to learn of websites who resort to providing platforms for users to then sign up and join and illicitly and unethically upload the content of others for those uploaders to bask in the social currency of "likes" and "follows" within the social communities that develop within said sites.
I should also add this, I am not one somebody who is entirely opposed to file sharing or uploading of certain content and I never refer to it as piracy, because I don't consider replicated material as stolen material. It's just the nature of the beast that when you do something on the internet you're dealing with information -- ones and zeroes -- and like someone smarter than me once said, "Information wants to be free." ... The same technology that allows people to make a living livestreaming is essentially the same technology that allows people to capture those streams or download and then re-upload the content. In fact, I've gone on the record in the past in saying that in some instances someone's livestreams being replicated could have short and long-term benefits for the performer appearing in the illicitly and unethically uploaded content. Unethical being the keyword. I've never considered it an ethical activity -- for people to upload replicated content to engage in -- but I've always been a realist when it comes to this issue who simply understands the nature of the beast when information is what is being dealt with. The free and open and neutral nature of the Internet is what concerns me more. I prefer an equal and open internet where information can be shared rather than ruled. That's my preference -- at least when and where it can be helped. Particularly when there is the DMCA option. It is a good law when it originally came into being.
Of course, though I do have my preference I also understand that there are exceptions when unethical behavior detrimental to the Internet and people who make their living or supplement their income on it is concerned.
So though I If a livestreamer or video content producer produces content that has been uploaded by another party onto another platform that video content producer has every right to request it be removed. So sites, such as PornHub, for example, which seems to respect the DMCA request, I have no problems with. As for sites which ignore these requests, and openly laugh and mock people citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when asking for their content to be removed, these sites I have no respect for and I consider them a major problem.
Cam sites seem to be going through a transitionary phase. People are noticing less traffic on the sites as in years past. Whether the traffic is less or not is not something I have analytics on. So I don't know if it's happening or not. But if it is there would be a number of reasons why. Illicit tubesites would not be the only reason why, but they certainly would constitute a major variable in the equation.
Why would someone go to a cam site to interact and pay superstar cam models like Jenny Blighe, Austin White, Ora Young, Baby Metal, Alicia Cano, etc, etc, etc … when they can just go onto a website such as camvideos.tv and see them there? In some instances have access to a great deal, or even all, of their ManyVids and premium content as well. Camvideos.tv is a new site I've been made aware of recently. I would hope they comply with DMCA requests. If not, they'd be a prime target for what is described below. Though, there are certainly other sites worthy of being the one action is taken against first to be made an example of.
But here is the bigger problem. Not only do the top performers on a cam site lose potential sales because of these sites, but everyone else suffers on the site as well, particularly the models who are not in the top 250 or 500 and especially 1000. That is because sites which host these videos divert camsite traffic. People are going to the tubesites rather than livestreamer channels. For lower-ranked models this means the less likelihood of there being the random odd tip by someone who strolls into their room who is visiting the site as a premium member. I'm sure I don't have to explain how just a single 200-token tip a night on a site like myfreecams.com site make or break someone's budget.
So it is extremely evident, that such sites, which do not abide by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act must be dealt with. The question then is, how?
There might be a few ways. But there's only one that I know of and will speak of it below.
HOW TO KILL A WEBSITE WHICH DOES NOT COMPLY TO DMCA REQUESTS
Before proceeding, however, *it should be realized that what I'm describing should be viewed as a POLITICAL act* And as a political act if such action which I detail were to ever be carried out, it should be carried out on sites selectively after ample chances (or warnings) have been given to avoid such consequences.
What I am about to describe won't be easy. It needs to be planned. For such an action to occur and be successful it would take a concert of organized, mobilized, and motivated actors to engage in this sort of (what I refer to as a) political act, because it can't be done alone. I will repeat: it cannot be done alone. And this is something cam performers, and sex workers in general, have to realize as the 2010s turn into the 2020s ... you're all essentially independent contractors working alone ... it would be to everyone in those lines of work benefit if there was more organization en masse in spite of that fact that you're essentially independent contractors. Alone you're all easy sitting targets. It's little wonder why liberals and conservatives alike prefer to go after sex workers to score brownie points in the media. And in case nobody has been paying attention, sex workers are easy low hanging targets for a lot of the religious cultists making a lot of noise in the public and private sectors in these very strange and mysteriously regressive dystopian times we now find ourselves in.
So ...
Step 1 is to begin to organize and coordinate for a mass mobilization effort. The more the better. If you can recruit friends or dedicated fans, even better, the more people who join in the more effective the action will be. You could even think of it as a cyber-army wing of a cam model coalition, or, dare I even say: union. This step would be the hardest and lengthiest step. It won't be complete overnight.
Step 2 is to then begin setting up a number of dummy e-mail accounts any way you can. Have them set up and ready. The more you can make the better, but at least start with 3 or 5.
Step 3 is to select one site which has been the biggest headache and acts most the most egregiously - and this is important - the efforts that are to follow should be concentrated on one site and only one. It should be a site which coalition leadership agrees on going after and all activities should be aimed at that site and that site only.
Step 4 is to begin registering as users on that site using one of the dummy e-mail accounts that have been set up.
Step 5 upload video content onto the site. Lots of it. As often as you can. Round the clock. The video content to upload to the site should perhaps be 3-5 seconds in length, enough for a decent screen cap to appear on the site when the video is uploaded, but short enough so that as many videos can be uploaded on the site in as short a time as possible. And of course, be sure to hashtag the video using all the site categories so these videos will infest the whole site. The video should be little clips that some models make themselves, maybe doing something mundane, or even just giving the camera the finger, whatever, the more random the better ... they should be nonsense video clips ... nonsense clips that just flood the site.
Now, of course the site may ban you and cancel your membership if you've uploaded this kind of video content that damages the content they're trying to put out there. That's okay though; because you have another e-mail to make another dummy account with ... do that, then just keep uploading the same nonsense.
What this does is A) Keep the moderators busy trying to delete this content from the website and B) turn people off of the website to the point where they'll just stop going there
People should almost do it in shifts, spent some time while you're on the internet destroying this website with these uploads. Just collectively pour it on them non-stop. For weeks. Until it's just a dead stick.
After a few weeks of this, maybe even a month the site will die off. It might not vanish from the internet entirely right away, but you'll notice authentic uploads onto the site decrease drastically as the site gets less and less traffic. Eventually, when the domain is up for renewal, it'll go away.
And it only has to happen once for other sites to then get the message. Word will get around. Abide by the DMCA or suffer the same fate. Think of it as a guild raid.
It's not going to solve the problem completely. There will always be secret message boards and file sharing groups under the table. But such an action will still be to everyone who is a cam model's benefit if it were ever going to occur.
Now what I described, it might be too pie-in-the-sky to hope for. But it's certainly not beyond the realm of belief that something like it could happen. It's not physics-defying stuff I'm describing. People organize and mobilize all of the time. There's no reason why cam models couldn't. And there are hundreds of reasons as to why cam models should.
And, as I mentioned, yes, fans of cam models can and should be recruited and join in these actions. But this has to be a cam model-spearheaded initiative because it concerns the livelihood of cam models themselves. Nobody is crying Argentina for cam models who make less money than they otherwise could have been making. Nobody is looking out for cam models backs. So it has to be cam models who look out for each other's backs, and not in a symbolic manner, but in a quite literal proactive manner as I've described.
So I'll leave it there. In the words of Edward R. Morrow: Good night and good luck.
Before I do that though I want to explain why -- as someone who is not a cam model, but a fan of the business, and a fan of what the business can mean for multiple arenas of the sociological spectrum, from the arts to how the internet, and even economies, can work -- this subject interests and concerns me. After I accomplish transmitting these personal sentiments I will very matter-of-factly detail how direct and devastating action can be taken against a disreputable site that fails to take into consideration the people they are hurting after they've been asked to remove specific content yet take no action.
Just after turning thirty a number of years ago, before I was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease I would eventually be diagnosed with, I was crippled for the better part of a year. Nobody could figure out what it was I was dealing with before I was diagnosed. The only thing anyone could figure was that it was Lyme disease. I wound up having to spend six months in bed unable to walk in chronic pain. I was essentially dead to the world. Forced isolation can really take a toll on someone's mental state. Forced isolation while also in chronic pain with no apparent diagnosable reason is even worse. Eventually, I was finally diagnosed and I was put on a medication which got me out of bed and able to walk again and return to the life I had before, but the point is, as a result of the pain and isolation I was on the verge of insanity that year.
The only reason why I did not go insane was that I wasn't completely isolated and cut off from the world. There were livestreaming cam models which allowed me to hold onto the last tendrils of sanity I was dealing with. Nobody was there for me, nobody really could be there for me; people have lives to live and bills to pay. But cam models were there. I never really got into the issues I was dealing with, I didn't have to. Just being able to interact with a living person was enough, even if it was through a digital interface. It helped.
I've heard cam models and cam model advocates say that one of the things they do --as in, one of the services they provide -- is something akin to armchair psychotherapist. Nothing truer could ever be said. So, on that personal note alone, I feel a sense of gratitude to people who take up this kind of work. Those models that were there for me around the time just after I had turned thirty are no longer around. They've moved on and are doing other things. Now, as I'm getting ready to turn forty, as a result of evolving technology, it would seem that the business that saved my sanity is in a transitionary stage and so I write this as a small means of honoring the service that they did for me knowing that in the future there will be others like me, and worse off than me, who may find that cam models may be less of something like a luxury and more like a necessity.
Just speaking socially, though, one thing that I've really come to appreciate about webcamming is how it represents a revolutionary form of how business in adult entertainment can be done, where middlemen and creepy producers are cut out of the process and the fruits that the labor produces goes to the person putting the labor into it and to those who make the distribution of that labor possible (the websites who run the servers and develop the software).
How labor is exploited by ruling rich classes in society in general or in adult entertainment specifically is a subject I can write 100-page essays on, so I won't say too much else about it. But webcamming (potentially) represents a smashing of the old paradigmatic donkey wheel of value being created, or even extracted, by labor being exploited and reaped by the rich and ruling class. In adult entertainment at least. But as history has shown us, as goes "pornography" goes the rest of society.
Therefore, it is incredibly frustrating to learn of websites who resort to providing platforms for users to then sign up and join and illicitly and unethically upload the content of others for those uploaders to bask in the social currency of "likes" and "follows" within the social communities that develop within said sites.
I should also add this, I am not one somebody who is entirely opposed to file sharing or uploading of certain content and I never refer to it as piracy, because I don't consider replicated material as stolen material. It's just the nature of the beast that when you do something on the internet you're dealing with information -- ones and zeroes -- and like someone smarter than me once said, "Information wants to be free." ... The same technology that allows people to make a living livestreaming is essentially the same technology that allows people to capture those streams or download and then re-upload the content. In fact, I've gone on the record in the past in saying that in some instances someone's livestreams being replicated could have short and long-term benefits for the performer appearing in the illicitly and unethically uploaded content. Unethical being the keyword. I've never considered it an ethical activity -- for people to upload replicated content to engage in -- but I've always been a realist when it comes to this issue who simply understands the nature of the beast when information is what is being dealt with. The free and open and neutral nature of the Internet is what concerns me more. I prefer an equal and open internet where information can be shared rather than ruled. That's my preference -- at least when and where it can be helped. Particularly when there is the DMCA option. It is a good law when it originally came into being.
Of course, though I do have my preference I also understand that there are exceptions when unethical behavior detrimental to the Internet and people who make their living or supplement their income on it is concerned.
So though I If a livestreamer or video content producer produces content that has been uploaded by another party onto another platform that video content producer has every right to request it be removed. So sites, such as PornHub, for example, which seems to respect the DMCA request, I have no problems with. As for sites which ignore these requests, and openly laugh and mock people citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act when asking for their content to be removed, these sites I have no respect for and I consider them a major problem.
Cam sites seem to be going through a transitionary phase. People are noticing less traffic on the sites as in years past. Whether the traffic is less or not is not something I have analytics on. So I don't know if it's happening or not. But if it is there would be a number of reasons why. Illicit tubesites would not be the only reason why, but they certainly would constitute a major variable in the equation.
Why would someone go to a cam site to interact and pay superstar cam models like Jenny Blighe, Austin White, Ora Young, Baby Metal, Alicia Cano, etc, etc, etc … when they can just go onto a website such as camvideos.tv and see them there? In some instances have access to a great deal, or even all, of their ManyVids and premium content as well. Camvideos.tv is a new site I've been made aware of recently. I would hope they comply with DMCA requests. If not, they'd be a prime target for what is described below. Though, there are certainly other sites worthy of being the one action is taken against first to be made an example of.
But here is the bigger problem. Not only do the top performers on a cam site lose potential sales because of these sites, but everyone else suffers on the site as well, particularly the models who are not in the top 250 or 500 and especially 1000. That is because sites which host these videos divert camsite traffic. People are going to the tubesites rather than livestreamer channels. For lower-ranked models this means the less likelihood of there being the random odd tip by someone who strolls into their room who is visiting the site as a premium member. I'm sure I don't have to explain how just a single 200-token tip a night on a site like myfreecams.com site make or break someone's budget.
So it is extremely evident, that such sites, which do not abide by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act must be dealt with. The question then is, how?
There might be a few ways. But there's only one that I know of and will speak of it below.
HOW TO KILL A WEBSITE WHICH DOES NOT COMPLY TO DMCA REQUESTS
Before proceeding, however, *it should be realized that what I'm describing should be viewed as a POLITICAL act* And as a political act if such action which I detail were to ever be carried out, it should be carried out on sites selectively after ample chances (or warnings) have been given to avoid such consequences.
What I am about to describe won't be easy. It needs to be planned. For such an action to occur and be successful it would take a concert of organized, mobilized, and motivated actors to engage in this sort of (what I refer to as a) political act, because it can't be done alone. I will repeat: it cannot be done alone. And this is something cam performers, and sex workers in general, have to realize as the 2010s turn into the 2020s ... you're all essentially independent contractors working alone ... it would be to everyone in those lines of work benefit if there was more organization en masse in spite of that fact that you're essentially independent contractors. Alone you're all easy sitting targets. It's little wonder why liberals and conservatives alike prefer to go after sex workers to score brownie points in the media. And in case nobody has been paying attention, sex workers are easy low hanging targets for a lot of the religious cultists making a lot of noise in the public and private sectors in these very strange and mysteriously regressive dystopian times we now find ourselves in.
So ...
Step 1 is to begin to organize and coordinate for a mass mobilization effort. The more the better. If you can recruit friends or dedicated fans, even better, the more people who join in the more effective the action will be. You could even think of it as a cyber-army wing of a cam model coalition, or, dare I even say: union. This step would be the hardest and lengthiest step. It won't be complete overnight.
Step 2 is to then begin setting up a number of dummy e-mail accounts any way you can. Have them set up and ready. The more you can make the better, but at least start with 3 or 5.
Step 3 is to select one site which has been the biggest headache and acts most the most egregiously - and this is important - the efforts that are to follow should be concentrated on one site and only one. It should be a site which coalition leadership agrees on going after and all activities should be aimed at that site and that site only.
Step 4 is to begin registering as users on that site using one of the dummy e-mail accounts that have been set up.
Step 5 upload video content onto the site. Lots of it. As often as you can. Round the clock. The video content to upload to the site should perhaps be 3-5 seconds in length, enough for a decent screen cap to appear on the site when the video is uploaded, but short enough so that as many videos can be uploaded on the site in as short a time as possible. And of course, be sure to hashtag the video using all the site categories so these videos will infest the whole site. The video should be little clips that some models make themselves, maybe doing something mundane, or even just giving the camera the finger, whatever, the more random the better ... they should be nonsense video clips ... nonsense clips that just flood the site.
Now, of course the site may ban you and cancel your membership if you've uploaded this kind of video content that damages the content they're trying to put out there. That's okay though; because you have another e-mail to make another dummy account with ... do that, then just keep uploading the same nonsense.
What this does is A) Keep the moderators busy trying to delete this content from the website and B) turn people off of the website to the point where they'll just stop going there
People should almost do it in shifts, spent some time while you're on the internet destroying this website with these uploads. Just collectively pour it on them non-stop. For weeks. Until it's just a dead stick.
After a few weeks of this, maybe even a month the site will die off. It might not vanish from the internet entirely right away, but you'll notice authentic uploads onto the site decrease drastically as the site gets less and less traffic. Eventually, when the domain is up for renewal, it'll go away.
And it only has to happen once for other sites to then get the message. Word will get around. Abide by the DMCA or suffer the same fate. Think of it as a guild raid.
It's not going to solve the problem completely. There will always be secret message boards and file sharing groups under the table. But such an action will still be to everyone who is a cam model's benefit if it were ever going to occur.
Now what I described, it might be too pie-in-the-sky to hope for. But it's certainly not beyond the realm of belief that something like it could happen. It's not physics-defying stuff I'm describing. People organize and mobilize all of the time. There's no reason why cam models couldn't. And there are hundreds of reasons as to why cam models should.
And, as I mentioned, yes, fans of cam models can and should be recruited and join in these actions. But this has to be a cam model-spearheaded initiative because it concerns the livelihood of cam models themselves. Nobody is crying Argentina for cam models who make less money than they otherwise could have been making. Nobody is looking out for cam models backs. So it has to be cam models who look out for each other's backs, and not in a symbolic manner, but in a quite literal proactive manner as I've described.
So I'll leave it there. In the words of Edward R. Morrow: Good night and good luck.
