“The current climate of the adult marketing industry is one that has been causing many webmasters to choose sides in the continuing debate regarding tube sites and pirated content,” TubeResource.com stated in a press release. “Until now, many webmasters have been entirely unable to determine the legal standing of specific tube sites or specific sponsors with regard to the use of stolen content. Even finding out the specific terms of service different sponsors and sites want followed with regard to tube content can often be difficult to do.”
TubeResource.com aims to fill that knowledge gap, and to clarify “the murky waters that most tube sites operate within,” the company said. In addition to listing the specific policies of affiliate programs with regards to tube traffic and tube content, the site also inspects individual tube sites and labels them as being either “within the boundaries of legal and ethical advertising clip standards,” or as “or as rogue sites designed around profiting from stolen content illegally lifted from paysites.”
“The great thing we have been seeing so far is that most site owners really are interested within the TOS of sponsors,” said Jack Wessen, vice president of public relations for TubeResource.com. “In many cases, it isn’t that a webmaster wants to profit from unethical content, it’s that until now there was no way of knowing which sites were hosting it or what a specific sponsor’s policies were regarding it. Compiling all of this important information on one website and making it simple to search through has not been easy, but the results have been fantastic.”
Even though the site’s official launch happened only hours ago, some immediate results of the launch are already becoming apparent, according to TubeResource.com.
“Numerous well-respected affiliate programs have asked to have their own TOS added to the resource and scores of webmasters have started using this powerful new tool to clearly define the terms of their sponsors and the sites they are operating,” the company said. “The goal of TubeResource is to clarify the terms and practices of the exploding tube site market so that honest webmasters with integrity can earn money without the fear that they are inadvertently breaking a rule or supporting unethical companies.”
To access the information already compiled by the new site, visit www.TubeResource.com. Tube site owners seeking certification of their sites may submit their site for inspection by visiting www.tuberesource.com/sponsor/submit.php.