Deleted accounts, no payout
Folks - we received several copyright violation notices from big publishers in the last 2 days and have warned various of the merchants before: We do not discuss the sales of pirated files on tradebit, we delete the account and no money is paid out. Buyers will be refunded and asked to delete the copyrighted file. Merchants who had sales on copyrighted materials (especially the “for dummies” ebook pirates and the forex software pirates) will not get paid and their emails will be blocked from now on. We try to run a clean and easy business here the affiliates and merchants can count on. If sellers try to trick that, it might work - but not on the long run.
Neither Paypal, Google Checkout nor Clickbank or our other partners tolerate copyright violations and we are now more people here and have more time to control these publications and obey our partnership contracts.
There are top merchants here on tradebit who sell great files and tools. It is just unfair to put their business in danger by letting some of the copyrighted files slip through! Just stay away from copyrighted material and create your own content - there are enough examples on tradebit, which show that one can live from “private publications” like video tutorials or collections of free stuff.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:15 am
I could not agree more with this! Good policy. The very few people who pirate can put legitimate sellers at risk. Looks like you are putting some good controls in place. Kudos.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
hey, i know that you at http://www.payloadz.com fight with the same problems. We should install a piracy tagging server and centralize these efforts to get some broad rating system - i guess a lot of potential buyers would honor this by buying more from trusted systems!