Originally Posted by Why

bump.

these types of sites are bullshit!

but,.... just to play devils advocate. many torrent sites are now private, which means there is some type of monthly fee involved. many college kids can afford a fee to a message board where torrents are posted, specially if its only say... $5 a month(like a rapidshare or demonoid account). i can go to any dvd production house or content supplier and get 1000 dvds with rights for $10,000. after that, the ongoing cost of operating a private torrent site is next to nill. because all the bandwidth is on your 'customers'. at the end of the day this IS a business model and it IS valid and the major part is IT WOULD BE 100% LEGAL! if you wanted to be really nice you could setup 10-12 shitty windows machines around the globe and actually 'host' the content via those computers so all the files are seeded ALL of the time. i think this is similar to what ICOO does?

maybe this is self created hell this industry made for ITSELF due to our inability to organize and rout out scammers and cheaters. maybe this is due to so many people seeing fucked up shit on thier CC's from porn sites. a $5 paypal fee each month sounds a lot safer to me. or maybe this is due to so many sites with virtually NO content inside of the members area. or maybe this is due to the fact that $40 a month is a lot of money to many people world wide, where as $5 a month is nothing and very affordable to 90% of people online. many of us forget simply because we exist in the top 0.0001% of the worlds population in wealth, that not all surfers are walking money signs.

to point the fingers only at the people that are profiting from this now is very naive in my opinion. if anything the blame should be shared amongst a few other sites/programs/people that helped to create this state. there are still a number of companies stuffing shit on peoples monthly statements and finding newer and more innovative ways to fuck the customer, rather then operating a straight up honest business.

innovation is the key to success. gotta learn to roll with the punchs. ya know?