This is site is hosting copyrighted materials. http://tinyurl.com/kmap9c The funny part is the site has adsense ads on it. The site is also making money from buysellads. The site has a very high alexa rank. I know this site is hosted offshore but this guy has the guts to put adsense on it. Isn't it against adsense's TOS?
Do you own any of the materials you think are copyrighted? How do you have any idea what the owner of another site has licensed or has permission to use?
I do not know if this is against the TOS of AdSense, but someone has to report this site if it breaks the copyright rules. I do not think that AdSense will suffer from this, so Google will not take action just because of this.
Thanks for the link man! I think I'll go steal some art! Who cares? Honestly? Google don't give a damn about anything but Google. If you are stealing something, yeah, it's against their TOS, but chances are they won't ever know it because they don't really care about human beings. If they start clicking their own ads or something, then Google will notice. Why? Because it's about Google and their bottom line. If some copyright holder complains (and that depends on if they can even get through to a human at Google to begin the complaint, which is as rare as green diamonds) then Google might care. Why? Because it's about Google man! Get it now? Google don't care about anything but Google. Why should you? BTW - That site looks totally legit. I have seen a thousand of them around the neighborhood. And I don't see many Google ads either, so I guess this is sort of a strange conversation.
What is so copyrighted about the general images on that site? There is nothing illegal that the human eye can differentiate from. The images on that site are general and vague. Even if it had any copyrighted or trademarked pics on it, like it was mentioned above, Google won't give two pitooties about it because they are making money and that is what they care about. They are going to need all the flow they can get their hands on now, to save up for when Bing Busts them out of their #1 Search Engine Popularity.
I wonder how you if you are just making this discussion or you are serious about what you are saying. I have cheeked the site and there are not Google ads there! And just so you know, Google really cares about what gets into their pockets, not what people steal on the internet to publish on their sites.
Any site can publish copyrighted materials at any time........ PROVIDED it has secured proper authorization from the author PRIOR of publishing. In the meantime, any PUBLISHER is INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY IN A COURT OF LAW!!! =======================================================
I often wonder how people come to believe they "know" what Google cares about? I guess it is a lot like religion, if your parents rammed it into your head then you just go on blindly believing whatever was said. I am a deeply spiritual person, but I damn sure don't take your word for anything regarding my belief system. And I surely don't believe anything that is said about what Google is or isn't. They have proved to me without a shadow of a doubt that they are what they claim not to be... Evil. That site was totally well designed and pretty cool with some nice designs to download if you want. Nothing wrong that I can see. There are artists out there that want people to have their art. They look for these sites and beg them to display the stuff. Why should Google have any say so about anything on the Internet? Tell Google to collect their stupid keyword revenue and shut up! That's my theory. Quit bossing us around with all of your threatening posture about how you are going to govern search engines to screw us all over every year! Good night.
I didn't see any either. I liked the graphics though and bookmarked the site for later perusal. If they have any damn Schpoogle ads I'll click those just to give the guy a nickel for his efforts too!
Yes indeed BadBoyStudioZ everytimes we share a reply together on the same thread you come out N0 1! Is it a spiritual link? Or just "smart wisdom"? I love it Bad Boy! P.S. We all should boycott Google AdSense to teach thm' a lesson...but who would even think of it..........??
There's actually 2 google ad codes in the coding itself if you right click the site and view source but yeah, for some reason I didn't see any ads on the site for some reason so there must be something going on in there somewhere, maybe hidden ads somehow? Anyway, just saying to view source and see for yourself, they're about half way down! Other than that I can't personally see anything wrong with the site other than that, good luck to 'em!
They got banned. That's probably the case. If they have the script and it doesn't show up, that is probably what happened. I never thought about looking at the source, but I didn't care that much either. But I do know there are guys/gals around who will. Thank God for the "Investigators" the CSI Guys of the Internet! Gotta love 'em! Hey... That gives me some ideas... Hmmmmmm.
I see the big g's ads on the top right of the header so it works for me, maybe they're geo targeted or something. I'll have a good look later though, nice looking site! Edit. It says at the bottom that no files are hosted there and there's a link for complaints as well. So I guess it is legal as far as it goes.