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Old 04-19-2009, 02:27 PM  
gideongallery
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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor View Post
Ok but you have to admit that there are huge differences between something like American Idol which has probably the biggest back end of any show in history, and something like porn which is produced for the explicit purpose of selling copies of the production.

Also, remember most of the people who post here don't own any content (exclusively...they own licenses but no content) and they're wondering how they fit into this future you envision, since all they've really been to this point is middle men standing between the person buying porn and the person selling it.
well if you are a middleman you are screwed, affiliates who just push traffic to get signup are dead meat.

That being said use branding bugs internally to increase retention (by advertising/upselling non pirateable content/benefits) would be the most effective way for an affiliate based paysite to survive.

Affiliates should be looking for sites which do this, because while there conversion ratios may be getting worse, the retention levels will increase and therefore balance out.
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