Can Someone Explain the Business Model of Sites like Imagefap and Usercash?

[Bedtime Stories]

Can Someone Explain the Business Model of Sites like Imagefap and Usercash? I see a lot of adult bloggers linking to imagefap and usercash galleries but I don't quite understand how it works. It looks like they just make money from advertising and give the blogger a cut, so its kind of like pay per click. But where does the blogger get the images? Is he just stealing them? Anyone have experience with these programs? Thanks in advance.

[Hentaikid]

Yes the users steal the content. Very many sites work on this sort of "oh it's our users stealing content not us" deniability. 99.9% of all surfers have no clue images are even supposed to be licensed, and those who do know don't give much of a shit, like they do about the RIAA

[boobie]

nothing else - just bloody thieves there

[Bedtime Stories]

Ok, now out of curiosity, what is the risk and what is the reward with that tactic? It looks like those bloggers are making a very small amount of cash out of their traffic. Does that mean the real owners of the content seldom bother going after these thieves? If I was so inclined, would there be a quick way for me to fire off an email and get them shut down or at least inconvenienced? I actually came across a Blogger sex blog using imagefap and lots of hardcore images and would have reported him but he had managed to remove the 'flag objectionable blog" button. Kind of getting side-trekked with the question, but is there a way to report something like that to Blogger? I tried an email to support@blogger.com but didn't get any response. Thanks.

[rogue]

anyone who uses imagefap or anything like it are just leeches. they are just 15 year old kiddys content to steal content just to make $15 or so a month

[Hentaikid]

I dunno, look at the code of the report button on another blogger and try to figure out what it's sending and where....

[thomasbyers]

Originally Posted by Bedtime Stories

Ok, now out of curiosity, what is the risk and what is the reward with that tactic? It looks like those bloggers are making a very small amount of cash out of their traffic. Does that mean the real owners of the content seldom bother going after these thieves? If I was so inclined, would there be a quick way for me to fire off an email and get them shut down or at least inconvenienced? I actually came across a Blogger sex blog using imagefap and lots of hardcore images and would have reported him but he had managed to remove the 'flag objectionable blog" button. Kind of getting side-trekked with the question, but is there a way to report something like that to Blogger? I tried an email to support@blogger.com but didn't get any response. Thanks.

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