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Originally Posted by docputer
in my opinion, the trackers fuck affiliates just as bad as the tubes. I had #1 placement for a particular program, and was making plenty of sales a day, then one day some fuckstick raped all their content and it was on trackers all over. In no time, I dropped to one sale a week if that many.
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It isn't that simple. Look at the torrent demographics - torrents are used disproportionately by younger, more tech savvy surfers who will be able to find the content even if you nuke it from their favorite tracker. These people aren't in the habit of paying for porn, movies, music, or anything else that can be easily downloaded. Except when going by performer name, there is so much substitute content out there, they can steal something else to satisfy them rather than pay for your content.
Tubes are far easier to use than torrents. You search Google, load the page, and click play. Tubes kill sales because the people who would have paid ended up finding it for free, as compared to the torrent users, who specifically seek out illegal downloads knowing they are free. To many paying customers, the hassle of finding and using torrents isn't worth the cost of a membership, let alone a trial.
Besides, tubes host stolen content, which makes for a much easier complaint. Torrents merely link to stolen content, which is legal in many countries.
Unless you've purged your content from every tube with a respectable level of traffic, I don't know why you would go after torrents/rapidshare.