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its much more cuthroat now than it was years ago
one of the reasons is the tube concept is here, whether the content is illegal or user-submitted, or all licensed, its a new technology that cut down drastically on the value that the paysite business model gives the consumer
its easy to point fingers at tubes with illegal content on them, but the model is not going away and when you say companies "that took a stand against these practices now engaging in it" i think its disingenuous
a large part of the value that paysites once gave was they were paying for large downloads of content, but now that bandwidth prices are $3/meg users get the same for the cost of impressions and when there is a ton of legal dvd catalog licensed content a tubesite can put online for pennies a video, and a consumer can get for free, how many people are going to pay $40 for what many sites offer?
With Business/Life, you do have to make compromises with your principles
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