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Originally Posted by candyflip
I don't think you can figure that out. But here's some food for thought:
Hollywood movies are usually the top downloads on Torrent sites, while this summer has been Hollywood's BIGGEST summer ever.
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And processing companies are the people in the best position to know the revenue.
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porn profits are in decline for the first time EVER in the history of the internet.
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Profits might be down, but is revenue down? Two different things.
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It would cost ccbill tons of money to have people research all the content on all the sites that they process and verify if that content is 100% owned by the site owner that they are billing.
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I hear what you're saying and agree with you it has to be done within the letter of the law. What I'm asking is would a CEO be asking questions of his managers why revenue and earnings are down for his business and would he be acting on it?
Or would he sit back and watch his revenue slide down and do nothing about it?
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The real damage comes from the content being stolen and then given away. This takes funding from the content producer which results in less content being produced. It's a vicious cycle.
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Except for the micro niches we could all stop producing content for 10 years and the PAYING customer would never know. The TGP site owner would spot it, but that's another cost we have taken on with the old business model.
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The Tube/Torrent sites themsleves are fine, as long as they are done properly. It's a great business model (kinda why Google bought YouTube).
The TGP/MGP has evolved into the Tube site, end of story.
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This is what I think. The business is changing and the ones doing the griping are the ones clinging to yesterdays model. I suspect the real truth is something else.
As I said at the beginning I was looking at the question of Tube and Torrent sites from a different angle. Some tell us they are bringing down the industry over all, yet I think if that were so the processors would be very reluctant to bill for them. It does not make sense that they would bill for a company taking down one of their main income earners.
Theft is wrong and anyone who thinks I agree with it is not reading what I'm saying, or is and wants to divert the thread to stop people thinking about what I'm saying.
Which is there might be more money in charging the customer a small price than in charging him a large one. Does a content producer make more money charging $100 for a scene or $10? Think about the concept of that statement before you reply.