I've put this in classifieds as the primary thing I'm interested in is in locating either a better translation website or a person who reads/writes Russian. I'm also interested in hearing whether it is only mud videos that are being pirated, are other messy videos being pirated as well?
Here's the problem, to try to get my mud videos that have been pirated removed, I end up needing to either send text in Russian or to translate it. So I fire up BabelStreet or the Google translator and make the translation. The problem then arises when I get the next communication, it is clearly garbled, the other person didn't understand the nuances of what I was saying. When I reverse out what I've already translated, the second generation translation is often very different from the original.
So, I'm wondering if others have had this problem getting their videos removed from VKontakte and/or whether anyone on the WAM network speaks Russian? If someone does speak Russian, I'm thinking there is a whole opportunity here to operate a video removal service to get stuff taken down from VKontakte.
Also, has anyone had any success at getting VKontakte groups or users removed? That would be much more effective than just getting videos taken down as it takes a phone number with a SIM card to join VKontakte so at least that would cost the pirates something.
I've now seen about 80% of every mud video ever produced on VKontakte. They come and go but the problem is real and everybody seems to want to pretend that there is no elephant in the room for fear of letting the two or three folks on the planet who aren't already aware of VKontakte piracy find out about it. Uh, that method ain't working.
A humorous thought occurred to me so I'll share it. Isn't it ironic that freedom of speech does not effectively include discussion of piracy in the US on these forums and yet you can have the same discussion on a Russian operated website? Yeah, I know the reason this is so, nation-state politics, just saying ain't the net effect the opposite of what we grew up thinking about freedom of speech here in the US?
Where's the irony? I imagine that if a Russian producer of film material went onto an internet forum with a bunch of other producers, and found people openly discussing pirating their material, they'd probably complain to the guy in charge as well.
My apologies, I should have worded it better, the irony concerns the discussion of pirated material that is allowed on VKontakte but not allowed on US forums. Reversing it to the Russian producer perspective sort of misses the point because Russian don't really expect free speech and there really aren't any Russian mud producers yet. But if there were, we might well see see VKontakte take action to protect and restrict discussion of pirating Russian producer's video. Alas, irony, like humor, is such a difficult target to hit...
But you've raised an interesting question in a way. So is the ultimate way to reign in VKontakte to get some Russian mud producers into business so that they will fight the anti-piracy battle for us?
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