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Originally Posted by Libertine
Anyone who believes that last bit is a fucking moron.
The main problem with tubes isn't that they take your content and give it away for free, it's that they give content away for free that competes with your paid content.
Most surfers don't particularly care whether they blow their load to "Assbanged Cumsluts 4" or to "Cumsluts get Assbanged 6". If they know a site with a very large amount of free content in the niches they desire, they will use that.
So, for DRM to be at least somewhat effective, virtually everyone needs to adopt it. Otherwise, there will still be plenty of pirated alternatives available.
But wait! It gets worse!
Even if all paysites had perfect DRM, tube sites could simply buy cheap, non-exclusive content - something that many are doing already. Even with a measly budget of only $10k, they could buy thousands of scenes. Enough to satisfy a sizable portion of surfers. Given a more realistic, higher budget, they can quite easily build a library of tens of thousands of scenes.
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I've seen this argument a lot and I have to say I disagree with it.
Porn is a mostly disposable product, you view it once and look for something new. If you cut down the amount new material for the tube sites to steal, you put a big dent in what makes them so popular.
Go surf the big illegal tubes. There are constant reposts and the surfers complain in the comments. If there is so much available, why are they reposting? Believe it or not, they are running out of scenes.
What I am saying is tube sites could buy a ton of non exclusive content but it won't last forever, they will run out and surfers come back to the tubes for the new stuff. Once they run out they start to decline in their popularity.
Any DRM doesn't have to perfect and really only the big players need to sign up for it to work if you are looking to defeat the tubes. To stop file sharing it would take perfect DRM, but the tubes only need their supply cut off by a sizable amount. Over time the surfer will exhaust the content and start searching again in other places.