It had been a day like any day before when I just speeded through the worldwide web looking for some fun videos and so on. Until I found something very interesting. As a member or downloader you surely know our license agreement when downloading movies. This is meant to protect the work of each player who submits his runs. Who had ever thought that a big site like http://www.abum.com itself would copy your work from here? Yes this is a little sensation. At the link at the end of this article you can see the proof. The movie was downloaded and the agreement was accepted though they edited the movie and cutted the movie and reposted the movie. The movie has not even been posted by any member it has been posted by 'abum'.
Every player puts a lot of effort into each movie and only the ones who made or tried to make a tas know how much work it is. Copying others work without leaving credits to the author can not be tolerated and we always try to prevent this. If preventation is too late we will try the best to get you credited as we will do here. But not only abum copies our movies. http://crunchgear.com has the same movie posted. If you know any other sites who do so you have to tell us. Help us all that the work of the players is not senseless.
In my opinion republication is alright and no problem as long as the author will be named. In spite of that opinion we build in the agreement to prevent such situations like the one described. The effort and the work of the player has to be protected and that is the reason of the agreement. Luckily in this case the movie got subtitles to credit the author though they are not as readable as the intro. As a reaction to these problems we will build in more clearly subtitles even though they will sometimes mask the movie itself. Only on this way we can make sure that the author gets credited as he earns to. Though in this case is no commercial background the effort of the players are misused. This is disrespectful and really embarassing.
Links to edited and republished movies without any permission:
http://www.abum.com
http://crunchgear.com