bawksy said:
My mind is also blown. The effort that went into making this thing is phenomenal.
A good comparison for what these people are up to is like recording broadcast TV. The show is broadcast to the word, free for anyone to watch, or with the right equipment, record. There's nothing a broadcaster can do to prevent it. If you do it in your home, nobody can stop you, and it's not even illegal. But once you start sharing it, then it becomes illegal. It'll be interesting to see if MFC enacts any mitigation techniques to try to slow these guys down.
In any case, I wouldn't get too worked up about it. It's just public shows. If people want to watch recordings of old public shows, then whatever. I personally don't see what the appeal is of archiving and sharing these shows anyways. The thing that makes cam shows interesting is interacting with them live. Take away the "live" part, and all you have is a shitty-image-quality girls-only show.
On MFC the camgirls have a
reasonable expectation of being able to block out states/provinces/countries that their family and friends live in, since that's one of the features MFC agrees to provide them on signing up. This site strips their right to that. Now anyone can easily find recordings of them. And you know as well as I do 'public' shows pretty much include everything for most models. There's very few I can think of who have never done a cumshow in public on the odd occasion. Or for that matter BJ, oil, bath, lingerie, close-ups, even getting drunk.
There's many models who never agreed to that level of exposure to everyone in their lives.
Oh, and your analogy to recording broadcast TV doesn't hold true. It is illegal, just not pursued. Although if you publicize it too much I imagine the National Football League might come down on you for recording the 'yearly BIG playoff in football. Them guys are militant about their copyrights. Technically I'm not even allowed to say the word that means 'yearly BIG playoff in football' without their express written permission, it's trademarked and they've sued bars galore for doing so.