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[GoddessAiren]

But it would be many times cheaper to either go to a secure stream like chaturbate has

Ha. Hahaha. HAHAHAHA.

 

[vlad.mazare]

But not all sites have to abide by dmca notices, wcgu never removes videos.

DUDE.
How many more times are you planning to put your foot in your mouth on this forum. Jesus Christ, you only signed up 3 days ago.

DMCA is a u.s. law that site wcgu is a Netherlands based company. Foreign companies do not have to agree to a dmca notice.

 

[AllisonWilder]

But not all sites have to abide by dmca notices, wcgu never removes videos.

DUDE.
How many more times are you planning to put your foot in your mouth on this forum. Jesus Christ, you only signed up 3 days ago.

DMCA is a u.s. law that site wcgu is a Netherlands based company. Foreign companies do not have to agree to a dmca notice.

I'm pretty sure she wasn't saying that what you said about DMCAs was wrong, but her comment was more directed to the naming of that particular site.


It should be common sense to not openly name sites where recorded videos of models are uploaded. There are more people lurking these forums than you can imagine and by naming a site like that you're just sending a bunch of people that didn't know about it over there to check it out.

 

[vlad.mazare]

I was doing some research into that website and although Leo's company Cybertania filed a lawsuit against the operator in 2011, Cybertania lost the case back in jan of this year. The only reason why he was even sued was because he wasn't to professional in how he was running the website.

 

[StolenVideos]

I was doing some research into that website and although Leo's company Cybertania filed a lawsuit against the operator in 2011, Cybertania lost the case back in jan of this year. The only reason why he was even sued was because he wasn't to professional in how he was running the website.

.... William? Is it you, old friend?

 

[UncleLewis]

Not likely..Last I heard William was in jail. Anyone heard differently?

 

[StolenVideos]

Not likely..Last I heard William was in jail.

No William has been out of prison for a couple months now. Seems he would like another trip back.

 

[vlad.mazare]

I found the info on the site where you make a complaint if someone scams you. And someone listed a court case where Leo's company filed a lawsuit but it was eventually dropped. And I just think he is an idiot for the way he ran the site, its like he wanted to be caught and sued by myfreecams.

 

[Zoomer]

If only there were some tool, some way people could search for themselves, in the rare cases they didn't actually know what a word meant, for definitions and stuff. Thankfully, we have many helpful people that post definitions for us!

When people tend to ignore what the word used means, then sometimes pointing it back out to them helps reign in over reaction.

As per usual, wonder why I bother posting. Think it's finally time to stop.

 

[AnaVictoriaXO]

Not likely..Last I heard William was in jail.

No William has been out of prison for a couple months now. Seems he would like another trip back.

Who the heck is William?

 

[vlad.mazare]

Not likely..Last I heard William was in jail.

No William has been out of prison for a couple months now. Seems he would like another trip back.

Who the heck is William?

The idiot that was running wcgu but he sold it to someone else. Leo sued him back in 2011,but lost the case in 2013.

 

[nzhere]

But not all sites have to abide by dmca notices, wcgu never removes videos.

DUDE.
How many more times are you planning to put your foot in your mouth on this forum. Jesus Christ, you only signed up 3 days ago.

DMCA is a u.s. law that site wcgu is a Netherlands based company. Foreign companies do not have to agree to a dmca notice.

So contact http://www.anti-piracy.nl/english.php

 

[vlad.mazare]

But BREIN is only concerned with the copyrighted works of persons from the Netherlands,I really doubt they are going to shut down wcgu. I'm willing to bet that it will stay up as long as its a profitable site.

 

[LadyLuna]

Yet another time I have to catch myself from thanking the post that amber edited because I can't thank the edit note... x.x

 

[BeetFarmer]

For starts I never said in any part of my post that you were evil or you should rot in hell. In fact I said you weren't evil, so please don't twist my words around. Fact is however nice you are about it, you do have a hobby that could potentially ruin lives, taking things against someones will and sharing it around to all. That's hardly an "oh my god! burn in hell!" comment. It's not even my opinion, it's a fact. You are skirting around it focusing on the good sides. My post was not to get at you, it was just pointing out that however much you justify and focus on the few girls you've helped, what you're doing is still a bad thing. I was kind of hoping that you'd admit to it, but instead you just decided to twist my words and blow them off with a "burn in hell" statement. I am funnily enough not at your door with torches and pitchforks, no I am not religious not that I think religion remotely comes into it.
You're kind of like a thief who goes in, steals the tv and computer, but makes sure everything else stays in order and leaves a box of cookies. Nice thought, makes you better than most thieves, but you're still a thief. I am sorry that I'm not sugarcoating this and making you feel good about your hobby because you do a few nice things and unlike most cappers I've talked to seem to actually be able to string a sentence together.
This is just my opinion but personally I almost forgive the cappers who seem so bloody stupid that the cleverest thing they've ever done is learn how to record camgirls. You seem like an intelligent enough guy, and you're clearly aware of everything you do and the consequences. I don't think that makes you better than them though. It just means you could probably be worth more than them.
You've said it's partly for the social side, I said this before but why do you want to socialise with a bunch of cappers over making friends with and getting close to some of the amazing girls on mfc? You have shed a relatively bad light on your fellow cappers and several of the things you've said have been along the lines of you being so much better than all the others. If you feel this way about them, then why on earth do you care so much about feeding them with free porn?!

And if you read what I said I did not state you called me any of those things. What I did was state what I assumed you wanted me to say. Major difference.

How am I taking something against their will? Around 99% of what I post is public shows done on MFC that at any given time a few thousand people could tune in and watch. I realize some models are more popular than others so the number of viewers at the peak of a show could be 3-5k for one model and only 3-500 for another. Regardless nothing has been taken against the will of the model.

Did I also say that what I did was a good thing? I don't seem to recall saying that in here. I did not say one way or the other. My contrition on the subject has never been brought up, but then again it has also been made quite clear from the opinions of many in this thread that contrition is something I lack, along with empathy, morals, etc. For the record I am not saying you said any of that.

I have never claimed to be better than any other cappers, nor have I vilified them. Sorry dear, but that is your opinion of anything I have said. I have respect for most original cappers. And I have made some quality friends who were not posters, but rather downloaders. I'll reserve some more light on this matter for a response to something Trav said in a few posts after you.

As for making friends with camgirls, I'd like to say I have. However this has been off of MFC. I have spent enough time watching various models and many have admitted to acting different while on cam then off cam. It is an act or illusion. I am not saying this is how all models function, but a great many do as if you are sweet and develop these "friendships" it usually results in more income. It is a business after all. I'm sure this will be shot down as being a bullshit observation I have made, but I digress.

So you made a fast judgement about me assuming that I'll make a fast judgement about you? And therefore anything I say you'll throw off imagining that I'm always going to hate you? Unless of course I start praising your work.

I don't speak for the other girls here, but I'm pretty sure a fair few are just humouring you because they would like to know your reasons behind this. I would also like to know your reasons behind it, I'd just rather have all the details. Whatever you say you are sugarcoating your responses and making capping seem a bit rainbows and lollypops. What I'm saying is it may not be the fiery pits in hell, but it's not what you're painting it to be. I don't believe you're being dishonest either, I just think you are only saying certain parts of it and relatively vague responses on your reasons for it. I understand why you wouldn't want to explain the full details of what goes on, maybe you don't even think about it, but if you're going to be here and your information is actually going to be useful to us, then we need to know from your side the negative parts of capping. Otherwise we can only fill in the dots and make up assumptions. I don't want to hear some crap about you deserving to burn in hell. I want to hear the truth of the negatives, what makes you feel guilt in capping, how often you feel guilty, whether you ever want to stop because of guilt feelings. Whether you ever feel shame for it.

I do not doubt that some models/members here are just being polite or changing their tone to, as you put it, "humour" me so that I will spill the proverbial beans. I am fine with that.

But you see if I say I feel contrition or empathy then most will either claim I'm bullshitting as I don't have those emotions, or then you'll see me as a person and thus won't be able to hate me. Let me ask you this, would you think differently and feel differently towards me if you sincerely thought I truly felt guilty towards the models I post? My assumption would be no, but again that is just my assumption.

I will not deny that at times I do feel guilty, but an easy way to balance it or take the edge off is knowing that the in order to do whatever sexual act(s) were captured in the recording the model had to meet a goal she set out. The most guilt is probably felt for the models who struggle more and don't have goals for 6-10k tokens to get naked and do a show. So I have less guilt for posting say AspenRae, Jalyn, NikiSkyler or GinnyPotter as they seem to flaunt their success. Models like MissViagra420 or SexySandra I have more empathetic feelings towards for example due to their smaller following and thus more meager income.

One thing I would also like to know, and don't take this the wrong way, it's not because of anything you've told me, or the way you've spoken, but more because of the hobby itself. Do you have any form of autism? Maybe aspergers or something similar. I have a few friends who have it and I could see them maybe doing something similar to this. I can understand if you wouldn't want to say. But well, it'd explain a fair amount on the compulsion/slightly obsessive side of the hoarding. One of my best friends is aspergers and although he's a lovely person and I think he's great, I also don't think he feels guilt and remorse in the same ways as most people do, it's less of an automatic thing. Whether or not it's something Dwight personally has, I wouldn't be surprised if other cappers have it. Or maybe I just cannot come to terms with why a seemingly bright guy not only has possibly the saddest hobby I have ever heard of (except maybe train spotting...), but a hobby that also upsets and endangers women without him either simply being a bit of an arse or having a condition.

No, I am not autistic. I do not suffer from any form of ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder).

I thought I'd also let you know my government is not your government as in England prostitution is legal. So yes the government would continue letting camgirls work. I also really don't think the government would see camming as close to prostitution. Porn would be down first if that were the case. The assumption I made about how people would pay for porn if you couldn't get it for free may be an assumption, but I have asked many people the same question. Guys I know scoff at the idea of paying for porn, yet admit if they couldn't get it for free they would pay to watch it. I also know many people who used to buy dvds all the time, but now don't because they can download/stream much faster without even paying. It will never stop, but currently it does seem to be happening a bit too much.

My government is not the government governing MFC, and it is not unknown that Europe is more open when it comes to sex than North America. There has always been piracy. Basically there will always be the yin to the yang. That is how it is with life for most things. Sick/healthy, right/wrong, good/evil, God/Satan, etc. People resort to pirating content for any medium due to the capitalistic mindset that the developed world has. Corporations and never satisfied with the profits they make. Why should they settle for $1B in annual profits when they can do things to squeeze $2B out of people? That is why we are in a global recession...greed. Although this has delved out of the realm of capping and into the realm of piracy as a while, which is quite a different form when you get down to the nitty gritty.

 

[vlad.mazare]

How can MFC legally win much, if a person was only capping free shows and makes a site out of it? A person going to mfc and watching for free doesn't contribute anything and the people that want to be part of an experience of having a virtual gfe are going to be the one's that tip. If a person won't tip it doesn't matter if they watch it on mfc or a site like wcgu.

 

[StolenVideos]

How can MFC legally win much, if a person was only capping free shows and makes a site out of it? A person going to mfc and watching for free doesn't contribute anything and the people that want to be part of an experience of having a virtual gfe are going to be the one's that tip. If a person won't tip it doesn't matter if they watch it on mfc or a site like wcgu.

Um, really? They can 'win much' if the site has legal copyright ownership of those videos and you record them to put the content on your site. You're getting monetary compensation by using videos that are not yours.

 

[vlad.mazare]

How can MFC legally win much, if a person was only capping free shows and makes a site out of it? A person going to mfc and watching for free doesn't contribute anything and the people that want to be part of an experience of having a virtual gfe are going to be the one's that tip. If a person won't tip it doesn't matter if they watch it on mfc or a site like wcgu.

Um, really? They can 'win much' if the site has legal copyright ownership of those videos and you record them to put the content on your site. You're getting monetary compensation by using videos that are not yours.

But how can the damage be even calculated? They already lost a case to that creepy guy that wasn't even running a professional setup. Imagine if someone like Manwin decides to launch a tube site dedicated to cam models.

 

[BeetFarmer]

Ehhh, not really that uncalled for if he's trying to say he's not making money and is still doing what he's doing for many hours a day.

Trav are you sure you read what he was commenting about? He found the statements that I must likely suffer from some form of autism to be personally offensive to him. Autism (or diseases in general) is an extremely delicate topic in our politically correct society. So how you think that had anything to do with a financial gain I am not sure.

I'd just like to point something out.

Does anyone really realize how much Dwight caps and posts? A quick and dirty googling reveals profiles on at least 7 different forums with a combined post count over 12,500. And he posts multiple caps per post.

I'm sorry, but the idea that there's some social aspect to this hobby seems ridiculous as well. I encourage you to find one of these webcam girls megathreads on one of these forums and tell me how much socializing you see. Aside from the very infrequent "can you post X girl" it's literally just like a directory of screenshots and download links.

You do realize that I post the same thing in whatever threads/boards I post on. So adding up my posts across X number of boards will not give any real figures to you. I don't do the social related posting in a content thread. There are discussion sections I utilize (mainly one board) and private messages or email or IRC. Before you jump to conclusions you should spend more than a couple minutes looking in a couple threads.

If he was just collecting it would be one thing. What he's doing is not collecting. It's disseminating. He even said the majority of his time was spent on the uploading part of the process. And it's being done entirely via sources that can make him income, whether he admits to accepting that income or not. I think all of that, combined with the fact that I can find virtually no social aspect present in his posts on these forums, undermines what he's saying.

Not everyone has blazing fast upload bandwidth. However I now have the means at my disposal to go from posting 20 videos a day to posting hundreds. As I privately told someone I was been persuaded to do this, but that I was on the fence about it for, GASP, ethical reasons. This in turn goes back to my argument that just because I am a capper doesn't mean I don't have fucking emotions. That would be like saying if you've ever told a lie in your life (and if someone tells me they have never lie then I'll just call bullshit) then you have no moral compass or you are just a compulsive liar.

I'm not discounting that the psychology you're talking about exists. But again, this is a guy with over 12,500 posts across 7+ forums with, as far as I can tell, virtually 0 social interaction on those forums. I think a much easier explanation of this activity than he's trying to develop an encyclopedic and specialized understanding of cam models, is that he's simply found an easy and entertaining source of mostly passive income.

To be honest, I have no idea why there is so much trust of his word happening in this thread just because he's come here and has been able to form complete sentences. If he's making money from this, he has a vested interest in promoting the idea that he's a friendly presence, and that capping is inevitable so you should just appreciate the upside. The less models search for their files, and the less they try to get them deleted, the less his files get DMCA'd and the less he has to worry about re-uploading and re-posting them. Thus the more money he makes on them and the less time he has to invest. And the longer the files stay up, the more his passive income grows exponentially.

Refer above to the 12,500 posts. And keep in mind people will imitate me. I do not post on 7+ forums. I never have posted on more than 5 boards at one given time. I have found individuals who have used my same username and made their threads appear as if they were me.

And your theory on DMCA and my incentive for posting here is laughable. I get DMCA'd regardless. My posting here exposes me more actually. It gives me more of a bulls eye so your logic is absolutely flawed. And if I wanted to make "passive" income I'd be better suited to just posting site rips as then I would have to spent time encoding videos. I could just upload them and post the links and I could then post 10x more in a day then I do. However you seem to know more than I do about my own reasoning for what I do, which makes total sense.

He has over 30TB of videos just in the past year from what I heard, that isn't a collection you will remotely know anything about, that is a professional effort to profit from the content.

Who said anything about 30TB of stuff I intended to post? Make all the assumptions you want about my motives. You seem to know so much about it all.

Beet is such a liar, he makes good money from it or he wouldn't be doing it. Many of the guys use multiple file hosts,multiple image hosts that pay them on sites that allow it. And post on several websites. There's even file hosts that do hybrid 25% of sales and 50% of download plans,so a person can easily make good money if they are getting several sales a day. An experienced capper like him and with the content he has is pulling in close to $100/day.

I don't use multiple file hosts. I use one host. The only time I have switched if due to some issue with the previous one (they ceased operations, problems with the site, etc.). I don't even come close to $100/day, so again please continue to throw out all your ridiculous assumptions you like. I am strictly on a PPS tier and thus I do not profit from downloads. And many of you seem to think I have thousands of downloads a day, wrong. In the past 6.5 days I have had 1,153 downloads. That is an average of 177.4 downloads per day. And with PPD most of my downloads come from countries in the lower tiers where 1,000 would would yield $0.50-$7.00. Just because I record as much as I do does not mean I edit and post it all (which ties in with your post above).

Just because you think you know anything doesn't mean you should give an opinion or in your case false assumptions or accusations.

I said I wasn't going to post in this thread again unless my name was brought back into it. Please keep my name out of this conversation, and stop assuming that every opinion Nordling expresses in ACF posts is all related to me. It's sad that every time he expresses his opinion in a thread I've posted in, people dismiss his posts and just say "Oh, well you're just siding with your favorite person." It's insulting to him, and he might as well not even post anymore in the same threads as me if people are gonna be like this every time we post in a thread.

Models in this thread have every right to listen to BeetFarmer, thank his posts, think he's a 'respectful' guy, and express their opinions. Just like PaulieWalnuts, Trav, Nordling, Isabella, etc. have the right to express their opinions about his hobby, without people telling them "Whoa, hold on right there...you're not being fair." What's so unfair? It seems like some of the people in this thread are getting jumped on for having an opinion different from most of the posters, and it's not right. And by the way, just because most of the models in this thread are A-OK with Beet and his hobby doesn't mean every other model and member have to agree with you.

You realize that any post that seems to make a negative argument against me yourself and Nordling have thanked, but yet any post that a model/member has made where they don't criticize me neither of you touched. This is not at all surprising given how quickly I have picked up on your characteristics. No one is jumping on your ability to have an opinion. What people are jumping is that you don't have an opinion you have a bias. And frankly I could care less what you think of me. All you have done is put yourself on my radar by acting the way you have (and this is not a threat).

And your comments about you are Nordling just make me laugh.

Oh and I am not saying you can't thank whatever posts you want too, but it just shows that you have a bias and not an opinion.

 

[LadyLuna]

BeetFarmer, thank you for continuing the dialogue.

For the record, my stance on capping when I found out about it was always "well, if you make any money off of it, please share it back with me. Thanks!" (I think I forgot that part in my current profile though x.x)

 

[Nordling]

As I said, I'm not going to continue debating in this thread, but since my name was brought up, I just have to say one thing.

In the context of this thread, "opinion" is by definition "biased." That's how opinion differs from "fact." Opinion is unsubstantiated belief, and thus biased by one's personal feelings. Opinion CAN be fact, just as biased belief can be, but it's never synonymous with fact; it has no intrinsic quality.

 

[HiGirlsRHot]

But how can the damage be even calculated? They already lost a case to that creepy guy that wasn't even running a professional setup. Imagine if someone like Manwin decides to launch a tube site dedicated to cam models.

You didn't need to calculate damages, the law provides for statutory damages and copyright holder can chose to either prove actual damages or take the statutory damages.
In the case of the US, the copyright holder is entitled to $30,000 for each work, and an amount that can be increased by up $150,000 if it can be shown that person willful infringed on the copyright. http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html

So in the case of a camgirl playing music in her room, no more than $30K per session. In the case of capper/pirate 150K per video/cam session.

The amounts will vary by country, but most European countries are party to many international copyright treaties, and enforcement work pretty similarly.

 

[vlad.mazare]

So if MFC goes after a Pirate,the pirate then can tip off the RIAA and has proof of infringement by myfreecams and the models. So it would be in myfreecam's best interest to either ignore it or put in measures to reduce mass recordings.

 

[Trav]

Trav are you sure you read what he was commenting about? He found the statements that I must likely suffer from some form of autism to be personally offensive to him. Autism (or diseases in general) is an extremely delicate topic in our politically correct society. So how you think that had anything to do with a financial gain I am not sure.

Yep, I am sure. My point was that if your motivation is NOT monetary, then I don't think it's inappropriate to question whether or not someone who does what you do, for the number of hours you've admitted to doing it, has some form of mental or social disorder. Not saying you do, but I don't think it's an absurd question.

You do realize that I post the same thing in whatever threads/boards I post on. So adding up my posts across X number of boards will not give any real figures to you. I don't do the social related posting in a content thread. There are discussion sections I utilize (mainly one board) and private messages or email or IRC. Before you jump to conclusions you should spend more than a couple minutes looking in a couple threads.

Yes I do realize this. The point in my posting those numbers, which by the way are already a lowballed number because of how many download links you have in each post(sometimes 2, sometimes 10, often never 1) is to show that you are not just a member of 1 close-knit forum community of cappers. You spam your content across many different forums(5 if we're using using your numbers) in what seems to me like an attempt to just hit as many eyeballs as you can.

Not everyone has blazing fast upload bandwidth. However I now have the means at my disposal to go from posting 20 videos a day to posting hundreds. As I privately told someone I was been persuaded to do this, but that I was on the fence about it for, GASP, ethical reasons. This in turn goes back to my argument that just because I am a capper doesn't mean I don't have fucking emotions. That would be like saying if you've ever told a lie in your life (and if someone tells me they have never lie then I'll just call bullshit) then you have no moral compass or you are just a compulsive liar.

Again, if you are as ethical and willing to help as you seem to portray yourself, I have to question what would happen if every individual model you capped came to you and nicely asked you to stop posting their content. Because like I said, I sincerely doubt that your presence and content would simply disappear from the internet.

My last point on this subject, since it seems questioning you on your motives isn't very welcome at the moment in this thread, will be this. Putting aside all the copyright infringement issues etc., what you are doing has the potential to hurt people. How slim that potential is can be debated, but the fact remains that what you do can significantly negatively impact lives. Not every model wants to make this job a career in the public eye. For some it is a means to an end, and while the fact that it is in the public eye via MFC is acknowledged and accepted, there is an active attempt to mitigate that fact through things like region blocking and not publicizing what they do, even when it could earn them more income. If even just on of these people was exposed and had significant consequences in their personal/family lives as a direct result of someone finding content you posted that would have been unavailable for them to see otherwise, how would you feel about yourself?

Those are my final thoughts on the matter. I'll leave this for models to discuss now as I feel it's more their business to deal with you than mine.

 

[Kradek]

Yep, I am sure. My point was that if your motivation is NOT monetary, then I don't think it's inappropriate to question whether or not someone who does what you do, for the number of hours you've admitted to doing it, has some form of mental or social disorder. Not saying you do, but I don't think it's an absurd question.

It's an absurd question. I guess anyone with a hobby is autistic?

 

[invidious]

Not likely..Last I heard William was in jail.

No William has been out of prison for a couple months now. Seems he would like another trip back.

Who the heck is William?

The idiot that was running wcgu but he sold it to someone else. Leo sued him back in 2011,but lost the case in 2013.

William did not sell his site. He still the owner, contrary to what he would like everyone to believe. He is the sole owner & operator of the site. He has made up several fictitious people that only exist in his mind. His site uses a Japanese host, but claims it's in the Netherlands, he lives in the US. He will also insult himself to trying to get people to believe that it isn't him. He will also refer to himself in the third person.

There is no reason to bring up his site, it does very little in traffic and the only people who know of it are people he as harassed.

 

[HiGirlsRHot]

So if MFC goes after a Pirate,the pirate then can tip off the RIAA and has proof of infringement by myfreecams and the models. So it would be in myfreecam's best interest to either ignore it or put in measures to reduce mass recordings.

No because the model indemnify MFC for any copyright violations that models broadcast. The RIAA should go after the models, MFC is acting as an ISP just providing a platform for models to broadcast. At least this is theory that MFC seems to operating on. How this actually would work out in a court is anybody's guess. The whole thing is really a moot point, since it appears that MFC is very lax about any enforcing any rules. Looking at couple of pirate sites I was surprised at the sheer number of capped cam shows. I am sure MFC is aware of them, I did notice that there were plenty of pictures and streams that were taken down and replaced with notice of copyright infringement.

The really unfortunate thing is how many models videos, that weren't MFCs shows were also pirated and available to be downloaded. The whole "it is really only corporations making billions" that is hurt by our actions, really seems like BS, when I see that. When a guy downloads a models video from a pirate site rather than tipping a the model 200 tokens, it is the models that loses most of the money not some big evil corporation.

 

[vlad.mazare]

But if a Pirate were to just tip off the RIAA, and the RIAA start sending legal notices, it would have an impact on their performance, thus hurting myfreecam's cash flow. It would be in myfreecam's best interest to just start blocking people using excessive bandwidth. They could cut off the piracy and some of the load on their servers and not risk some pirate doing something crazy in revenge over being sued.

 

[JerryBoBerry]

But if a Pirate were to just tip off the RIAA, and the RIAA start sending legal notices, it would have an impact on their performance, thus hurting myfreecam's cash flow. It would be in myfreecam's best interest to just start blocking people using excessive bandwidth. They could cut off the piracy and some of the load on their servers and not risk some pirate doing something crazy in revenge over being sued.

pirates don't use excessive bandwidth is the problem with your entire theory. If a guy has 5 rooms up all day he'd be banned as a pirate. Doesn't work that way. And a pirate may just be recording ONE room which uses no more bandwidth than anyone else with one room up. Your entire statement makes no sense.

 

[VenPerv2]

Yarr! where be me free vidyas!