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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
If you have a paysite already you can add your current content to a micropayment website without hurting anything. As long as you have a decent number of videos it would always be a better value to buy a membership than to buy every video and each video would be upselling your paysite anyhow. Memberships should cost less than $30 but I doubt it will start out that way. If a paysite doesn't have say 100 videos in their members area then they shouldn't be a paysite to begin with.
As for too many people getting a cut, you are looking at it from the perspective of the gateway owner being as greedy as every moron before him. The gateway owner in this case would be a smaller version of Paypal, 5 to 10% would be plenty.
Also, there's not much tech involved in this at all. The entire system is extremely easy to setup, the only hard part is talking content owners into adding their stuff. Old dogs like old tricks, even when they are dying from doing them too much. There will be plenty of resistance but some will try it and when they succeed everyone else will jump on board as well.
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Trust me... this has already been done, and failed.
My perspective is from a person that has done it. The gateway could be free, it's cost means nothing. However, no 3rd party could bill this - it would have be done on unique merchant accounts, per client, masked over the org site to not violate visa rules.
Taking content, in various formats, sizes, some with dvd's, some with only wmv's, all types of stuff, correcting them, putting them to your system, requiring you to have a team of staff, servers, admins, techs, coders, etc to support such a system - exactly like vod requires.
What your talking about is a modified VoD company, which is an extremely complex business model.