Yes, it is too bad. If you know of a program that will remove them
without leaving a bigger mess than the watermark, I'm all ears. I
don't like them any more than you do.
My only interests are the RLC participants in the videos and providing
a way for people to download those videos. I'm not advertising for any
business. You may have also noticed there are at least two other sites
that use that same style of watermark.
The reason the guy from hotscopes was banned is that he was posting
videos in the open downloads with links to his site which created spam
so he got banned. By downloading the videos and using a 3rd-party host
to post them, I avoid that situation. That, and the fact that I don't work
for hotscopes or any other site.
That's fine if you don't want to download them. No harm, no foul.