C-List Celebs & Apple Don’t Like Me

So it seems my other sites’ are attracting a fair bit of unwanted attention. Now that I can be doing without.

The trouble in this business is: more traffic, more trouble.

Yesterday a C-List actress from Britain got her knickers in a twist about a few photos. What her agency couldn’t understand was that I wasn’t hosting the images. I found them elsewhere on a forum and they were hosted at an image host. I simply copied the code on to a blog.

Now if someone uploads a copyrighted video to YouTube and then I go and embed it on a blog, the offended party should come threatening me with legal action? Nope, they go to YouTube, they are hosting and serving it.

I tried my best to explain all this but they couldn’t hear me for trying to intimidate me with threats of prosecution and lawyers. Zzzzz….. It got a little boring. The funny part was they were demanding names and contact details of who uploaded them. Yeah, sure. LOL.

Next up we have Apple, it seems they don’t like their iPhone brand appearing on another site of mine. The brand is too exclusive. WTF? The affiliate company just called to say the vendor - The Carphone Warehouse - wants it taken down because Apple have seen it on my site and it’s inappropriate. Okey dokey. How about I head on over to another affiliate company who only just emailed me this morning to ask me to run a ‘Win An iPhone’ campaign for them. Mmmm. I ran those ads a couple of weeks ago together with an iTunes selection. All creatives clearly use the iPhone image and the Apple logo, so whats the difference?

I was actually going to throw a set of those ads up for a joke but I’m guessing that would me be asking for trouble. Anyway, let’s hope they don’t see those ones that run via Adsense.