Hanging up the cape?

Bad news. Thanks to a site bent on stealing content, They posted my alynna and perla clip(the one I did literally for you guys) for free. Perla has had enough of this since shes been on pornhub over 11 times so she is resigning when I JUST convinced her to tickle. Alynna the new girl you all love is also no longer doing any videos after seeing this from sheer anger and watching how sad i became.
I saw this site years ago when I was 12. I had a foot fetish all my life and was obsessed with tickling. I found a place that had people like me on it. It was a truly happy feeling. I grew older and met so many others THROUGH this forum. I watched studios rise and fall. I was always a huge Realtickling and Tickling paradise fan. I would still lose a limb to tickle Viviana or Priscilla James. But nonetheless I feel like the community sucks now.
Producers day by day pump out amazing content. Whether its the powerhouses like UK, Tickle Intensive, Tickle Abuse, FTKL, James Darke, Stryker, etc. There are also us little guys like me, toetally ticklish, stuck in the stocks, etc. Who pump out the little things we can and some of us get huge for it. But sadly lately ALL of us are experiencing clips being stolen, clips on pornhub, etc. This community was huge on clips and bought them, interacted with the producers, and ffs actually BOUGHT clips instead of storing 800 previews. But all that is changing. Everyone wants free hand outs and then wonder why no models come back or why customs are so expensive. Well when your store isnt turning a good enough profit whats the point? I just wish this community would come back and become something it was, A place where we could share our fetish, talk about it, and understand it. Not creep out chicago or any other female that enters this forum. But all in all, I think this will be my last year producing. I LOVE making clips for all of you I truly do, but this is annoying now. Its a hassle having idiots steal my content and make models look at us like shit. Its one thing to let yourself be on clips4sale but to end up on pornhub? come on now. So this will probably be it. Sorry guys but if assholes just wanna steal, I would rather just keep my clips for the people I KNOW buy and care. To see Perla who STARTED my store with me call it quits killed my heart. Alynna was so excited to come back and then she saw when a fellow producer messaged me and linked that her clip was stolen.
But all in all guys, I hope for a great year but this is it.

It seems like these days people have no morals. I haven't been able to afford to buy too many clips, but I certainly wouldn't ever consider stealing them! Sorry to hear that this is happening so much anymore...

robmic said:

It seems like these days people have no morals. I haven't been able to afford to buy too many clips, but I certainly wouldn't ever consider stealing them! Sorry to hear that this is happening so much anymore...

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If you are ever strapped just message me man, or other producers. Most of us will work with you. But thank you

Sorry to hear about this! It sucks when producers put their heart and soul into making clips and make a little money on the side, but some assholes want to post stuff for free. I will never understand why pirates do it. They don't gain anything monetarily for doing so, so why?

Finding models to tickle is not exactly easy and to have them leave is just horrible. People have complained that the same models make the rounds with each producer, but most of these models are normal adult film actresses so they know they will be everywhere on the internet. People complain that there are not enough "girl next door" models. Well, assholes that post producer's clips for free on porn sites are the MAIN reason as to why. Unfortunately, piracy will never stop but I know some producers have done things to help protect their content.

Tickle Room, I would check with Stryker as he has fought against piracy for a long time. Seek his advice that way you may be able to keep going and tell the models they will be better protected. Hang in there

primetime said:

Tickle Room, I would check with Stryker as he has fought against piracy for a long time. Seek his advice that way you may be able to keep going and tell the models they will be better protected. Hang in there

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Was going to say this as well. He's spent a LOT of time fighting this battle, and his current business model seems to have worked out for him. He's not putting out as much as he used to, but at least what he's putting out now seems (more or less) secure from stuff like what you're describing.

It sucks, but you really can't expect much from these people anymore. I'm not going to lie and pretend like I haven't traded clips with other tickle fetish guys (a practice in and of itself frowned upon tremendously so I'm not high grounding), but a lot of these people will gleefully tell you they won't drop a dime on material and will just throw it up wherever. I have dropped that "community" idea years ago, and it helps any feeling of disillusionment you might suffer.

I don't know. When I took over the Zone, I chased down every pirate I could. Over time, I found it to be a wasted effort. Most of the people who pirate never had any intention of buying our clips. I've read every excuse you can imagine. My favorite is that the clips are not good enough to pay for...but some how they are good enough to steal.

In any case, our policy for the last several years has simply been to ignore the back alley pirates who use IRC and private e-mail trading. We know about them. There is one egregious trader that has their own network with copious trading lists. Those are the people who pay for only a fraction of the overall content on their hard drive. We just take down the ones who flaunt their piracy in our face: places like pornhub and tickling-videos.com. I got that guy bookmarked and take his clips down the same day they go up. He tried to create a third party encryption on our clips once, so we couldn't read the links' actual url. Took two minutes to work around that BS. I get a perverse pleasure out of annoying him.

My advice, don't sweat it. You need to just accept that people will pirate. Just know that most pirates were never going to buy your stuff and expending too much energy chasing them down is a waste of your time and resources. Those who are willing to buy your clips will, if they have the money. You can't stop piracy and you just get frustrated chasing down one while three more pop up.
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rally said:

Was going to say this as well. He's spent a LOT of time fighting this battle, and his current business model seems to have worked out for him. He's not putting out as much as he used to, but at least what he's putting out now seems (more or less) secure from stuff like what you're describing.

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Unfortunately, no. His stuff, like everyone else's is easily found if you know where to look. I've come across it in many IRC collections when I've been looking to see what of our own content is available. I've even forwarded information to producers, but the stuff always comes back. True pirates know where to find it. The casual pirates shop pornhub and forums, which are easily dealt with and not very secretive.
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laughinggaszone said:

Unfortunately, no. His stuff, like everyone else's is easily found if you know where to look. I've come across it in many IRC collections when I've been looking to see what of our own content is available. I've even forwarded information to producers, but the stuff always comes back. True pirates know where to find it. The casual pirates shop pornhub and forums, which are easily dealt with and not very secretive.
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That's unfortunate. I guess I wasn't aware of just how deep that all went. I figured private forums and things like that were about the extent of it for such a niche fetish. It's too bad that this stuff seems to happen so frequently and easily

I'd be willing to bet it's the guys living in their moms basements that have too much time on their hands and something else in their hand that are doing this because they have no money because they don't have a job! Losers!

Sorry to hear that. Its a shame really as you had some really awesome material. I wanted to do a similar thing and start something up, but with whats happened here and to countless other smaller video producers, it really does put me off.

Its a real shame how things have turned out as of late :/

It's not just fet clips. Since it's so incredibly easy to share content, people just do, and they don't understand what's wrong with that. A former friend of mine once put on this cutesy grin and said "I'm a piwate!" before offering to share current movies he'd stolen. I just looked at him. "What?" oh, nothing. I'm sure the people involved in putting that together don't need to eat or pay rent -- you should totally enjoy their work for free and then screw them further by sharing it.

It's not cute. You're not "a piwate." You're a thief.

To the OP, sorry you're encountering this. It sucks. People have been distributing digital media for over a decade. Publishers and production companies have millions invested in developing it. You'd think we'd have figured out a way to secure it by now.

stockytickler said:

A former friend of mine once put on this cutesy grin and said "I'm a piwate!"

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This is pretty much most pirates. It's not that they can't afford to buy things. They certainly can, within reason. It's an entitlement mentality that is adopted and reinforced. This is especially true with porn. So many pirates use the same tired excuse: "I shouldn't have to pay for porn"...or..."I would never pay for porn." To them porn is like the air that we breath and how dare someone charge for it. A person with that mindset is not likely to change it.
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robmic said:

I'd be willing to bet it's the guys living in their moms basements that have too much time on their hands and something else in their hand that are doing this because they have no money because they don't have a job! Losers!

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If only. Surprisingly, a lot of younger people. Ones who grew up with the internet as part of their daily life and having literally anything they might want at their fingertips; oftentimes, pirated. When a person is so accustomed to having so much of this stuff for free (even illegally), trying to convince them that they should be paying for it is very difficult. Even though they probably wouldn't steal things from a box store in the real world.
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This is sad. I've never bought a clip, I've only just become 21 so the credit card process is only beginning for me and being a grad student anyway, I don't have the money to really spare. Valentines day is already killing me.
However, I would never steal anything from anybody. It goes back to people mentioning morals. And I hate to bring this up here, bc it may seem irrelevant to some bc it's not about tickling clips, but for those of you that see the meaning, I think it will be nice to think about.
My great grandmother passed away a couple months ago. She was 105, had all her marbles, made jokes told stories. Lived at home until the last 3 weeks of her life with an aide at night just to make sure she wasn't alone in case of emergency.
Before she moved on, I asked her a loaded question. I said "hey nonna, what was your favorite time period?" Her answer shocked me.
"The Great Depression"
I didn't understand and she obviously was able to read the look on my face bc I was dumbfounded. She explained herself
"People cared about others. If you had extra food, you went next door with a smile on your face knowing that you were helping those who were going through what you were. People genuinely cared about others, and it seems that somewhere along the line, people lost that. There's no love for anyone other than your family and friends. Back then, you were happy to help a total stranger, not happy to rip them off" (minus heavy Italian accent)
I put this here to encourage anyone that reads it to set moral values and always follow them. And I'm sorry for the ramble. I'm sure it may seem pointless to others, but it seems so fitting here bc it exactly shows what I'm trying to say
People don't care about anyone anymore, theyre selfish twerps until they need something from you

Fuck thieves, of all types. This isn't supposed to be the wild, wild west with people stealing horses all the time and such. I'll put my money where my mouth is, I may not have much to spare but at least two of your sales today are going to be from me. To the OP: you may consider yourself a small time operation, but you are a hero to me. I have tons of ideas but no access to models or production quality workflow; you do more than what I'm capable of. I hope you prevail and thrive

Thank you all ^.^ I am going to battle this more. Me and my models had a huge talk and we are going to attempt to expand and become more of a force in this business. How that works depends on you guys but so far the support is beautiful!

I'm not going to lie, there are a few great tickle vid companies out there but you're my favorite one! Fight these assholes!
I got two clips I want next and will buy them soon!

The Tickle Room said:

Thank you all ^.^ I am going to battle this more. Me and my models had a huge talk and we are going to attempt to expand and become more of a force in this business. How that works depends on you guys but so far the support is beautiful!

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Don't Stop!
Just found you guys and love the vids

I gotta say, I've fallen in love with your work thanks to Alynna. Glad to hear you all are redoubling your efforts.

What I love the most was exactly in the Alynna vid. A person that doesn't think she's that overly ticklish discovering the world of both tickle fetish and the skills that come into play, and discovering her own ticklishness. This kind of vids literally you get one shot: a person knows after the first time how ticklish they are. You did amazing with Alynna. Did you get the person she was talking to that kept interrupting you guys? I believe her name was Sam if I heard correctly? Waiting for that one for sure.

Thank you for all you do. Tell Alynna we are appreciative for her sticking out this journey after all. Will be scowering the free sites to help take down your stuff. I dunno how they do it, but frenchtickling seems to do a great job of getting their stuff off of the free sites.

I think you just had, what some would call, a hit with your latest video release.

I know it looked appealing enough that I decided to buy it over something else I had set my heart on buying all day today.

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I dunno how they do it, but frenchtickling seems to do a great job of getting their stuff off of the free sites.

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No, unfortunately, it's still there. Take pornhub for instance. If you do a search for frenchtickling, you probably won't find any results, but that's because the search only brings up "public" videos (those viewable by anyone); private videos (the ones that you need to friend someone to see) don't come up on the search engine and most are not even visible unless you individually search a person's private catalog. Some have just a few, while others have hundreds if not thousands. They use them for trade. "I'll let you see my private (pirated) videos if you let me see yours." We've gotten a lot of pornhub accounts shut down, because people had a lot of our videos listed as private. If they get too many videos shut down, their account is suspended. People try to work around it by renaming videos to the point that they are so unrecognizable that they don't even appear in a search and basically negate the whole attempt to share them. I've seen videos with no tags and some crazy name. It's pirated, popular and it has maybe 50 views even though it's been up for a year; 50 views is nothing on pornhub. I say this, not to discourage, but to make the point that piracy is with us and even if someone thinks they have eradicated it, they have not. As I have said before, we won't chase down more than the people who pirate brazenly, like forums and pornhub. Even if we got rid of all of them, there are so many people pirating privately through email, chat rooms ect. But again, as I've said, these people were never going to pay for our stuff and while we don't want them to get away with what they are doing, we are not going to expend precious time and energy chasing them down. We've been around for twenty years next year. Even with the pirates, we've managed to survive. So can other producers. Mitigate what you can and continue making what you love.
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