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Originally Posted by Twistys Tim
From what I understand, Apple is dropping DRM from certain (older) iTunes downloads, as its presence is affecting sales.
I sell porn, and I am also a surfer -- and I would never join a site I couldn't download and keep forever the content on that site. I am certain there are more people who think like me, than who think differently.
Gotta give your customers what they want, or someone else will and they will be their customers.
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Love you guys at Twistys, but how in the world do any of you think this is a good long term biz model allowing to download and keep your content? How is your content different than that on dvds? Have you ever walked into an adult bookstore, paid 29.00 at the door and walked out with an armful of dvds, then come back the next day take another armful, next day the same etc etc for 30 days? You would think that was absurd and the owners were insane and surely going to go out of business in short order. Welp that is what online adult is doing.
What is the difference other than the packaging? Dvds have to pay for the hardcopy, case, and distribution. We have to pay the exact same prices to produce our content, model costs, editing, production etc. The only difference is instead of paying a distributor to get out our content like the dvd side, we have to pay for site design, traffic, advertising, affiliate costs, processing fees etc. Fact is we probably spend more money in the long run getting our content to the masses where we can monetize it.
Now why in the FUCK does the surfer deserve to keep the content for a rental price? Honestly? Does everyone forget WHY we have the model we do? Its not because people WANTED to give away the content and allow them to keep it, it was because we DID NOT have the means when paysites started to take the content back after they customers 30 day period was up.
STREAMING ENCRYPTED H.264. Its not been cracked, put it on a nice cdn network and its nearly instant for anyone on broadband, and there ARE WAYS to deter theft. Im a super tiny little fish, and guess what I took our own money, came up with a concept, worked it out, got a developer, paid them, and now have a setup that I would say is 98% NOT going to leave my members areas, and its pretty much not noticed by the surfer.
In fact many of the webmasters that were interested in our method did not even notice what we are doing till I pointed it out to them when they saw the demo.
Stop repeating "drm bad" constantly. Its not the same drm like it used to be, and the way we do it is completely different than anything that pissed off surfers.
Why don't one of you big boys with money to develop and distribute a new delivery method hit me up and we'll get together on how your content can be kept your content.