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Originally Posted by Kelvin
Thats cool man, I'd be interested in the method. I'll hit you up.
The whole situation really sucks, cause on one hand we want to protect our content so its not floating around the web, and on the other hand, downloadable content that you can keep and use on other devices, is a big selling point for a lot of customers. I've done polls before where people basically say that they like the convenience of in-browser viewing, but that without the ability to keep the ones they like, they wouldn't sign up. :-(
Oh well.
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Hi Kelvin, the key is to be in control of your stuff. I stream h264 .mp4's at a nice quality and keep them from being downloaded as I said before. But then, I turn around and give my members a smaller resolution .wmv version that is way over-watermarked for them to download. And also I hired removeyourcontent.com to police our old stuff that was out there before I started this method.
It's kinda the best of both worlds for me. I keep my new high quality scenes off the tubes and torrents. Yet I still give my members something to download if they so choose. And if someone does upload one of the small .wmv's, then it is watermarked top and bottom to help against all the tube sites out there who pull that shitty trick of setting their encoder to clip off the bottom of the vids so your watermark is lost.
And then of course as soon as removeyourcontent dmca's them, then that gets pulled down from the offending site.
It keeps our membership a valuable commodity for our members, instead of it being a situation where their membership is worthless because of the members area being ripped on every tube and torrent.
Just having back a little control over your stuff does wonders for sales and retention.