Yes, I produce my own content and own the rights.
It is not that I am for, or against piracy bud. It's about the economics of running a business. The amount of money you spend trying to chase down and sue a river of infringers would be better spent on either.....
1. Developing a better mousetrap for your pay sites. Where the client can enjoy your content on the site, and while a member, but can't take it with them. Mark the videos with their IP while they watch. Something that makes it more difficult.
2. Grow some balls and use DRM. If you think theft is sooooooo rampant. I am sure the handful of people you lose to DRM would be a lot less than all these pirates people bitch about. So it's a trade off in the "war on piracy".
3. When you go the route of mass lawsuits against anyone, and everyone, you have made that your business model. Just like that shithead from Perfect10 who has tried to sue Rapidshare, and lost. Google, and lost. Who knows how many others? The point being, he does not focus on great content anymore. He spends all his time and money on law suits.
4. The money you waste on lawsuits would be better spent hiring RemoveYourContent or a couple of interns to police your shit off the web. It would cost a fraction of the time, aggravation, and expense. Plus, over all, be better for your business then some lawsuit that will ultimately not change shit.
5. Stop giving away all of your shit to your affiliates. Go invite only. I would bet you many of those affiliates who never sent you a single click took all of your shit and posted it up somewhere. This is one of the greedy failures of this industry.
As a content producer myself, I am all for people protecting their content and doing what you need to like Robbie has. If your content really is as good as you think, a few minor changes are not going to chase off all of your customers. If you, 'have the bead on them', as many think they do. You should know that they will buy regardless if you know your niche.
That said, I think giving up your primary purpose and business of developing sites, and technology, to protect your content while continuing to actually PRODUCE NEW CONTENT to just try and Sabre rattle a few kids into money you will never collect is a futile enterprise.
The point being, you have to decide if you are still actively going to be in the porn business, and worry about running that business which is providing for your patrons. Or if you want to run around shouting to the heavens to anyone who will listen, and wasting time, money, and years of aggravation just to 'prove a point'.
There are many other cost effective ways to run a business, and provide your service.
