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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
It may sound like a silly analogy, but put it in terms of a mag subscription. You pay for the mag
but they only give you half of May's edition. You're forced to wait for the second half of the edition.
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A magazine subscription is a perfect example of a limit done right. If you want a year's worth
of content, you have to buy a year subscription - you don't pay $4.99 for May's edition
and also get everything they've ever published. That's what site ripping is - you give them
everything you've added to your site since you first started and they only pay for one week or
one month. Why would they pay for another month afterthey just downloaded 15,000 videos
from you? If you do like the magazines and give them a solid month's worth of content for a
month's payment, they'll come back next month for more. Certainly as you said you don't
give them just half of what they pay for, but you also need not give them 1,000 times as
much as they paid for.
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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Imagine if you were to rent 3 DVDs from your local BlockBuster - got home and watched the first two...only to find the DVD manufacturer has built in a two-movie limitation circuit and you have to wait 24 hrs. to watch the third.
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Note that if you want to watch three movies, you have to PAY for three movies.
No limit would be this: "You walk into Blockbuster and pay $5. You walk out with
600 movies". How long do you think Blockbuster would stay in business if they
allowed that? Once you got your 600 movies for $5, resulting in a net loss for
Blockbuster, would you ever have any reason to come get more, when you already
have those 600 at home? Why would you want to allow that?
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Originally Posted by SilentKnight
Limiting a paying customer's ability to download as much as he/she likes could cause the customer irritation and potential loss of retention at some point.
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a) You're not going to retain someone who has already downloaded your whole site.
They've already got more of your content than they'll ever watch and they have plenty
to post on the tubes, so they have no reason to pay you another $35.
b) You don't WANT to retain a person who costs you more than they pay you - it's a money losing
proposition.