Posts made by frostycab

My mistake! It hasn't gone, but the other one of the same guy that was uploaded at the same time has.

... and it's been removed again. I did look at the video itself, and while it's short and rather boring, I find myself still confused about the behaviour. If it's not against site rules (here or elsewhere!) why is it constantly removed, but if it is against site rules then why does it keep getting reposted. Surely if that's the case then you wouldn't expect the uploader to still be here.

This video (https://www.gaytor.rent/details.php?id=b62de8b4067b457731aab4170a5875fb97462877641dcea6) has been bobbing around like an unflushable turd for the last few months, not just on here but also on gay-torrents.net and gay-area.org.

It gets uploaded to these sites over and over again, and seems to keep getting removed for one reason or another, so what's going on? Is it getting removed for breaking rules, and if so why is it showing up over and over again?

1. Does this really require double-posting in separate forums?
2. Sounds suspiciously like an upload request, which are banned sitewide.

@ninesquare Been using it for about a year know. Very good little tool for organising your collection. It's a godsend when it comes to checking to see if I already have something that somebody uploads here though. I often think "I'm sure I've seen that before," and it only takes a couple of seconds with a quick search to confirm if I have it, compared to getting Windows Explorer to search through thousands of files on several drives.

Well, maybe not "little" as such. My library (which I admit I haven't cleaned the duplicates and deleted files out of for a while) currently contains roughly 75000 videos, and with the associated thumbnails, scrubber sprites and all that the Stash data folder is currently standing at a little over 300Gb. It took a few days to scan through everything and create all the previews and such when I first ran it, but as long as you run the scan function on a regular basis it shouldn't take more than a few minutes even if you've grabbed a fair bit.

The video player is a little bit troublesome sometimes, as it struggles with a few videos I have that play perfectly well in VLC, though there aren't too many of those. The player could also do with a few more keybinds for skipping through a video as some of the jumps are a bit long, but I can live with that.

I've been playing around with getting some of the automatic functions to work but not had much luck. What I was hoping to do was run the renamer plugin to modify my files so that they'd include the title, studio and date of production, but I can't seem to get it to work. If you have any luck then please do let me know what you did.

One of the best features is the ability to grab info for a video. I've been through a lot of mine and managed to download the proper titles, tags, descriptions, performers, studios, dates... You definitely need to take some time to do this properly as you can get a lot of erroneous results for some videos, but the result is well worth it.

I also like the ability to group individual scenes together as they appear on the DVDs. It means I can get rid of a lot of files where I had the whole DVD but then discovered all the scenes as separate files in my library too. Now they can play in the same sequence as the DVD, but I can still treat each scene individually too.

@beachbro No idea, but where did you find the video? I haven't seen that one yet.

@lance81 Check the site rules again. All upload requests are banned. I have seen members get banned for what looked like their first offence, so my advice would be to not even try.

@iridium85 My first thought was OTB too, but the guys don't look quite right for that studio. Not quite twinky enough. Latinboyz perhaps?

@john32123666 said in Who is this with Jorik Tautou?:

[image is subject to copyright]

I nearly spat out my morning tea when I saw you'd included that! LOL Love it!

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

To the people who actually believe that gay porn has legitimate copyrights, I suggest you leave this site..

Thank you. Your suggestion has been considered and thrown in the bin. The reciprocal of your idea also applies if you feel like taking that option.

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

At the entrances to shops that sell porn, they have signs up saying that there is no admittance for anybody who is a member of law enforcement.

Gotta say, I've never seen that in the UK. Or Amsterdam. Or Prague. Or Spain. Or Germany. Guess they'd better all close up shop in case Buford T Justice happens to drive past while he's chasing The Bandit.

As has been said many times before, this site is not a democracy. The site owner gets to decide what happens on here. If they choose to comply with DMCA, most likely having sought legal guidance on the issue from a professional and not someone with a tinfoil hat on, then that is up to them.

We, the members, do not own the site. We are not responsible for it. The site goes to great lengths to protect its members' anonymity. The owners do not have that protection, so they can do what they like as far as I'm concerned.

As I said, even if there is some bizarre law or statute wherever you are, that has limitations. Porn can be and is copyrighted in many countries, and that copyright is applied to all signatories of the Berne Convention, including the US.

A (fairly long!) article on porn copyright on Lexology reads:

"Similarly, a French court[28] recently held[29] that copyright will not be denied to pornographic work only because of its genre and that the choices governing the design can be considered as original for copyright purposes. In the Australian case Venus Adult Shops,[30] dealing with copyright infringement of pornographic films, the Federal Court held that there is no statutory basis in the Copyright Act 1968 to refuse copyright on the grounds of content or offensive subject-matter of the work in question."

Regarding the UK it goes on to state:

"It is therefore reasserted that copyright law should acknowledge automatic and content-neutral creation of copyright for all works satisfying the legal requirements of copyrightability, including those at the verge of illegality (such as pornography), since the societal value judgments, including morality and public interest, are constantly developing in time and space; and that correspondingly, copyright should serve its "expressive value for society"[39] by promoting free expression or challenging these value judgments."

Now please do tell us all how your US-centric ideas trump the laws of other countries.

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

if there is no USA copyright, then there is no copyright.

Wow....

(Sorry about the late response, but I had to nip down to the doctor. He told me I'd strained my eyes by rolling them too hard. )

@john32123666 I'm wondering if he's got something set in his client that stops or lowers the priority of the torrent once it's ratio hits 1, but no idea which client he's using.

Out of interest, do you mean the torrent shows as "Seeding" in your client but you're not getting any upload traffic, or do you mean it's actually stopping?

@xoxogay No file information at the top of the thumbsheet?

@xoxogay A good uploader will usually include thumbnails for each video with large collections, sometimes in their own folder so you can preview the content at a fraction of the size of the full download. I'm fortunate that I have good enough speeds to be able to keep my ratio fairly steady even with the large collections, but I think this should be a thing for all collections with more than, for example, 20 videos.

In all honesty just simply searching for the term "VR" throws up quite enough results for me without too many other tittles popping up.

@lololulu19 said in DMCA strikes and the 90-day suspension:

Uploading porn does not violate copyright law since porn cannot be copyrighted because it is considered obscene.

Repeating this ad nauseum does little to change anyone's mind. As I've pointed out on several occasions in the past you seem to be under the impression that something you've read online somewhere applies globally. Even if porn couldn't be copyrighted wherever you are, that does not mean that anything in other parts of the world.

@buckadams78 A quick search of the forums shows that this idea was first floated back at the start of 2018. I think we can assume that it's not at the top of the To-Do List.

@eobox91103 It's right below the link for the helpdesk in the support dropdown

The guy with the blonde hair could possibly be Elijah Zayne