At the risk of speaking up when I shouldn't, and unless I'm missing
Inception levels of sarcasm-within-sarcasm (entirely possible) -- Internet, I think maybe you should reread this thread? Because I never got the sense that anyone here is criticizing the type of legitimate mainstream content that you're known for. I'm pretty sure that all of us, Wolf included, really enjoy and appreciate the stuff that you do. So, again, unless I'm misunderstanding (entirely possible), it seems like you're taking offense where none is warranted...
Not at all, bro! I'm
completely in agreement regarding people's home-made clips of them horsing around, and definitely about underage material. Which is the main thrust of this thread, right? This is why I don't post those kinds of clips, of what I call "candid" clips. What do you guys call them? Vanilla? Same thing. I'm not talking youtube channels where they're putting on their own little TV shows, and are catering to fetish to get likes; I'm talking "home movies" for lack of a better term.
No, I'm just responding to the term "copyright violation" that came up in passing here, and also in another thread that's going on somewhere else concurrently (and also from another member who periodically throws that up in my face from time to time). And I think it's legitimate - especially since I myself, and some of my friends have seen income go down due to copyright violations of stuff we've been a part of - to discuss it. This is "ethics of the Mainstream section" thread, right? I definitely am a big contributor to that section, so I'm willing to consider the legality of it. It doesn't matter if someone finds it "cute" or not, it's whether or not it's legal....and ethical.
I know people on this thread are making a distinction between mainstream clips, and candid clips. Maybe they shouldn't. It's
all a violation. What I don't like is someone who plays it both ways.....calling out copyright violations when they just want to score points (or be arbitrary) in a thread, but then happily enjoy them when they're posted or, as in one case, actually trade mainstream videotapes back in the day. (not anyone on this thread).
But hey.....continue as you were. If you just want to talk about candid clips on You Tube? My two-cents is I'm against them here on the Forum. When You Tube first started and it was mind-boggling to happen upon them from time to time, and I was younger, I didn't have as much as conviction about it as I do now (although it was never my focus, nor something I actively collected). But as time went by, I grew to believe that stuff should not be archived on a porn site. I've checked individual videos out from time to time, especially if people are going wild about them, but in general I steer clear of them, and I don't archive them.
Why should actors and actresses be any different? Someone I played music with has a Wikifeet page, and when I saw her featured on the mainpage of that site, I felt like beating someone up....and here I am, on this site, doing the same thing, basically.
What you might have thought was snark was simply saying: if a person has a problem with copyright issues, I sure hope they're beyond reproach. And if you're talking about "ethics of the mainstream section" and NOT talking copyright issues.....well, then....you're not talking about "ethics of the mainstream section" in totality.
Quite frankly - this thread should be
in the Mainstream section since that's who needs to see and contribute to it. Other than me and Studious, and Jeff...and maybe one other person I missed (sorry!) .. does anybody here actually contribute
anything to that section? Or even comment?