Originally Posted by Pleasurepays

tell him that people in the adult business, on the whole are too fucking stupid and too lazy to protect their own rights and would rather sit back and bitch about those who steal, rather than actually aggressively protect their rights as any other normal business person would.

Originally Posted by Robbie

Here let me be the one to actually answer the question...since I'm one of the only ones who actually did anything about protecting my stuff:

I found all of Claudia-Marie.Com members area ripped on torrent sites for free. This was about a year ago.

I started noticing that instead of 40 to 50 full sales (we don't do trials) a day, I was suddenly down to 5 or 6 a day! That's when I started investigating things and from reading here on GFY discovered what a torrent site was.

At first I railed and screamed and whined and cried here on GFY and made plans to join coalitions of webmasters to bring legal actions etc. It quickly became apparent that wasn't gonna work.

So then about 6 months ago we worked and tested and finally were able to do some scripting that in conjunction with an encrypted streaming server in multi-layers of security that stops people from being able to steal our vids.

So at that point I had a streaming only solution.

BUT, I still wanted to give my members a downloadable version as well.

So, my "one-two punch" is that I offer them a low quality smaller resolution and heavily watermarked .wmv downloadable version as well. So they can watch the vids in high quality via streaming...which gives them the ability to instantly move anywhere in the scene (VERY COOL) AND they can have a small downloadable version as well.

And the downloadable version is actually perfect for "marketing" on torrents and tubes. It's just good enough to show what we have, but not good enough to completely satisfy a person's desire for a quality video.

Our sales and rebills for Claudia-Marie.Com are now as strong as they have ever been. And that is the honest truth. Not the bullshit that I read posted here that is made up here by programs trying to cover their ass. We don't do trials. Just full memberships.

I only wish that the hundreds of programs that I am an affiliate of and USED to make good money with would do what I did so people would actually buy memberships to their sites again and I could raise up my affiliate money. Right now if it weren't for dating and cams...the money I make as an affiliate would be shit. It's a hard sell to get someone to buy a membership to all these sites that are being given away for free.