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Originally Posted by georgiaasphalt
You talk about protecting your content better. It's a logical argument, but at the same time for every protection scheme, a crack is going to come along. Remember when webmasters used DRM and how resistant member's were to accepting it? Having DRM is a strike against you. Even disabling right click, or now using a variation of the flash simple viewer pisses members off (this is actually an annoyance, not any kind of serious prevention method). People will simply go elsewhere rather than deal with it. It sux, but that's what happens.
And in order for DRM or any other kind of security goes, it needs to be easy to implement, acceptable to the users, and most importantly be adopted by the majority of webmasters. Unfortunately....fat chance of that perfect storm happening.
Let me throw a radical idea out there. Yeah, if enough people don't get on board it won't be a viable solution and it's certainly nothing new. But to me, the subscription model is flawed. What other business models allows people to have unlimited access to content for $25/mo? Can you imagine if restaurants and bars did this? Pay $25 for all you can drink/eat? As a consumer I'd say "hell yeah!", but as a business owner I'd say "hell no!". What about a grocery store? An electronics store? A clothing store? Movie theaters?
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Very good points thruout your post, as far as DRM or content protection goes, well there is always a hack always a site that will show you how to rip it and a site that will feature stolen u/p's.
But you still lock your door at night even thou I can show you a way how I can get in? And walmart still keeps their stores open even thou I can show you how I can steal from them?
Its about making it harder for most to rob you thats what its about.
I agree 100% the subscription model is fucked and we fucked it up, back when I started a members area only had say 20 movies and some filler plugin or just a plugin so that model was ok but now that its all this exclusive stuff its RIDICULOUS.
As far as members bitching, well you show me a product or service that dont have some people bitching about it and ill show you a company that simply has few or no customers.
Before tubes, high speed, torrent, large drives etc things where different but now its time to change with time, and those who wont time will change them and they will kicked out.