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Originally Posted by Robbie
Gideon...we are all "using it" We didn't have any choice. And you don't know what you're talking about my friend. You aren't in this business and yet you keep trying to make matter of fact statements about how to market porn when you don't have a clue about it.
I pointed out to you that tube sites CROP OFF THE WATERMARK TO MAXIMIZE SALES AND TRAFFIC TO THEIR PRE-PAID CLIENTS Please think about that for a minute.
And then tell me again that I'm not "using" this "new technology"
As I said we are all "using it" because we had no choice. People steal our shit and put it up without our permission. So everybody should be making millions off of it already. Oops, I blinked my eyes and you were disproved again.
A "branding bug" Do you mean putting a piece of video every minute or so that stops the entire film and is basically a self advertisement for my website? Cute name. And yes, if we were all CHOOSING to advertise in a viral way on tubes and torrents then we would release footage of our choosing and put that "branding bug" in there.
But if we suddenly start putting it in our actual members videos? You know, the ones that are actually stolen, cropped, and posted? We would then proceed to piss off and lose our current members.
You're just plain wrong if you think this is some kind of "new technology" b.s. It's nothing more than theft and using other people's work to monetize someone else's lazy ass.
I just blinked and some dating company got a new free signup member from a Nasty Dollars video.
But keep trying to justify it gideon. Until we are all seeing these great revenue streams that we should be seeing because all of these stolen vids are up for free everywhere...then you're just talking theory that is NOT working.
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We are facing a very new and a very troubling assault on our fiscal security, on our very economic life and we are facing it from a thing called the video cassette recorder and its necessary companion called the blank tape. And it is like a great tidal wave just off the shore. This video cassette recorder and the blank tape threaten profoundly the life-sustaining protection, I guess you would call it, on which copyright owners depend, on which film people depend, on which television people depend and it is called copyright.
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Now, that is where the problem is. You take the high risk, which means we must go by the aftermarkets to recoup our investments. If those aftermarkets are decimated, shrunken, collapsed because of what I am going to be explaining to you in a minute, because of the fact that the VCR is stripping those things clean, those markets clean of our profit potential, you are going to have devastation in this marketplace.
Now, is this all? Is it going to get any bigger? Well, I assure you it is. Here is the weekly Variety, Wednesday, March 10. Head1ine, "Sony Sees $400 Billion Global Electronics Business by the Decade's End," $400 billion by the decade's end. In 1981, Mr. Chairman, this United States had a $5.3 billion trade deficit with Japan on electronic equipment alone. We are going to bleed and bleed and hemorrhage, unless this Congress at least protects one industry that is able to retrieve a surplus balance of trade and whose total future depends on its protection from the savagery and the ravages of this machine.
Now, the question comes, well, all right, what is wrong with the VCR. One of the Japanese lobbyists, Mr. Ferris, has said that the VCR -- well, if I am saying something wrong, forgive me. I don't know. He certainly is not MGM's lobbyist. That is for sure. He has said that the VCR is the greatest friend that the American film producer ever had.
I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.
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if you haven't gotten it yet , i am mr ferris and you are jack "so fucking wrong every time" valenti.
http://cryptome.org/hrcw-hear.htm
read thru the transcript and see if how close your current statement is to what jacky boy was saying back then. Gloom and doom praying for the government to step in and change the laws to fix the problem of the vcr.
Fast forward to today and see how much money the vcr has brought to the american film producer. Ferris was right back then even though the movie industry WAS losing money hand over fist back then. It wasn't using the technology properly until they started selling movies for the devices. That where you are now, the biggest problem is you not even willing to do a split test when someone tells you the better way.
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i am assuming your branding bugs tirade is another kids in a stolen military van stupid statement because i don't believe you are actually stupid enough to claim that the only way to copy tv style branding bugs is to go way overboard and make them a major annoyance that would totally piss of your customer base. That you would do a gradual increasing split test to find the perfect balance between what increases the value of the content (by giving useful information) and the final step to far (that causes your customer to quit).
80/20 split test can work really well for this. mainstream marketing have been using them for years.
PPS.
if you did them gradually (and correctly) you would find an improvement.