Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1

I want to start a tube site. But what should I do.

1) Start a tube with small promo movies
2) buy content for thousands of dollars
3) or do what the big illegal tubes are doing

It seems to me some big companies supporting or have their own illegal tubes. It looks the tubes are profitable when you look at their datacenters and visitors. Big labels are buying traffic or make money selling/buying adspace. The customers also likes to watch the full free videos on the tubes.

To compete with this business model you must keep your cost low. Setting up a company in a safe haven is much cheaper than buying a lot of content. And it is also legal when visitors are uploading content. If it is true that the big companies run the illegal tubes, than this is the only way to compete with them. It looks like the tubes are going to stay, is it time to adopt their business model? There are only few legal actions against illegal tube sites so affiliates have to find a way to keep making money.

I wonder how many people advice option 3 ;)