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Nice read borked
This is what I implemented over 2 years ago on our videos. And you are 100% on the money.
As for the folks convinced they will lose members or it will be a "miserable experience": Claudia-Marie's site is kicking ass on both new sales and rebills. The high quality stream can not be downloaded, and since it's h264 compression I'm able to keep the bit rate down to 1.2 to 1.5 Mbps which doesn't put a lot of strain on the customers computer.
I've actually done this for a little more than 2 years. And since I do all the support for the site AND we have a "wall" on the main page of the members area for members to write anything they like...I can tell you that it's a non-issue with our members.
The one thing I did to completely stop any complaints was I actually DO give them a downloadable version. But the DL version is only 480 x 272 and is a much lower bit rate. Just enough for an honest member to be able to watch it when he's not online...but just crappy enough to not be the kind of quality that most would want to upload to a pirate site. Every once in a while they do...but removeyourcontent comes along and gets those down in a timely manner.
And that simple thing eliminated all complaints. Surfing her members area myself...I would never even bother with the download. The player in the members area is so much better. Big high def stream that starts instantly, and I can click anywhere in the timeline and start streaming from that point instantly. So if I don't want to watch the blowjob, I can go straight to the anal.
It's truly a MUCH better experience than my original .wmv set up. Looks better, works better, and gives them an experience that they are used to from YouTube (only mine streams better lol )
And yeah...the high res stream displays their username and IP address for a couple of seconds at random times in random places on the vid. Nobody even really notices it because it's small and unobtrusive. But IF they ever screen record one of my high res streams...I'm going to know EXACTLY who did it...right down to their real name and address straight out of NATS data base. And then? They would be getting a letter from our lawyer and paying a settlement.
I can report to all of you that "yes" it does indeed work.
And yes it has made money hand over fist for me since I first implemented it. Of course we offer a lot in our members area which is important too. Lots of interaction, a "community" with profiles, etc. and Claudia-Marie does her webcam show every week for them as well.
I personally communicate with our members in the members area (unlike most of the "big" paysite owners) and I know exactly what the concerns of our members are. And it ain't whether or not they can download the streams. Our members are more interested in putting in requests for what they want to see CM do in her next scene.
It's a remarkable concept...the members are actually interested in the PORN and not the delivery. That's what happens when you give an innovative and high quality delivery system and combine it with a product that they want.
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