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Originally Posted by Robbie
I don't treat our members as potential thieves. They aren't. They are CM's fans.
But the whole surfer forum mentality of sites like pornbb tricks them into being pawns. They are shown an illusion of a forum where buddies are encouraged to share their collection of porn vids amongst each other.
Of course they don't know that the truth is that the owner of that site is using them to generate traffic for his pre-paid ad spots.
And I do my part to educate my members. I talk to them all the time as I personally do the support for CM's site. And when they have asked me about such things I explain to them the entire business model of a site like pornbb and of course the file sharing sites, torrents, and illegit tubes.
And they are always shocked. And our members send me links to CM's stuff whenever they see it out there on those kinds of sites. Our members do NOT feel like thieves. They feel like they are part of a community.
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I hear and appreciate what you are saying and didn't mean to imply that I view my Members as thieves. LOL What I mean is that some members - at least
some - have scraped the content and put it 'out there' on torrent sites and such. It's the only way UN-watermarked videos can appear anywhere outside the member's area (since I don't post non-watermarked vids anywhere).
So what I'm saying is I don't want the members who aren't doing this - the 98.7% or something - I don't want them to FEEL like I'm treating them as thieves. LOL if that males sense. "Hey, I used to be able to download the vids, now..." And yes, I plan on giving them a downloadable (highly watermarked and lower quality) version, too.
Just saying it's a concern for some paysites, I would imagine, pissing off their members while trying to protect their shit.