Originally Posted by tippy

i dont know too much about this industry but couldnt something like this stop some or most of the video stealing from member areas...

As mentioned previously, people gain access to member areas via shared passwords or other means, these people looking to simply rip all the content prob. Dont plan on renewing their membership the following month or week or whatever.

What if new members had a waiting period, like say 2 months before they could actually start downloading content to their computers. The guys who signup just to rip all the content should be ticked off at this point and move on to an easier target... Obviously this wouldnt affect current members so it shouldnt bother them much and hopefully you can explain it well enough, but not too much detail to new members.

Something like that anyways, new members would only be able to stream the content, once they have been a member for 2 months they gain access to a secure section with the videos available in avi or whatever to download?

???

Mike