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Originally Posted by Mr. Billy
I think the biggest problem is getting the legal momentum built up, getting precedents established for the record, coming to grips with just what the current DCMA laws permit and what they prohibit and organizing in the industry to beef up the rules where needed.
With 2257, we had an eager assortment of lawyers, webmasters, program owners and coalitions lining up to take on and act on the issues on behalf of the industry. I don't see that happening here and I think this is part of the problem.
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There is no common interest here like there was with 2257. One of the biggest problems is that dating and cams sites are not hurt by tube sites where as regular picture and video membership sites (in general) are. So the cams and dating see tube sites as a traffic / revenue source with no damage to their bottom line.
I know the membership sites who advertise on tube sites still profit from them but they are shooting themselves in the foot. Lets say for example 100 people today where going to join a membership site, these 100 people happened to find a tube site, 90 of them probably would be satisfied with full length videos for free and never join a membership site. 10 of them would see a banner, watermark, ad etc.. to a membership site like Brazzers and join. So Brazzers makes a lot of money, because of shear volume of traffic, even though its just a small percentage.
The problem here is that 90 people who were potential porn customers now will not buy porn, so thats 90 less customers in the pool for everyone else to pull from. Does Brazzers care, hell no they just found a great traffic source for themselves. But in the end, the will shoot themselves in the foot, eventually as everyone finds out about tube sites they will get less and less customers from that traffic source and they will be in the same boat as everyone else.
All membership sites can't go tap into tube traffic, there will be a select few that make deals or buy the spots and everyone else will be left out in the cold trying to fight over the scraps.