Originally Posted by blackmonsters

None of that matters because the only reason they give out more material is
so that their affiliates will be able to compete with the websites that steal content
and show it for free anyway.

If you don't show any free content, or enough free content, then all the surfers just go to a torrent.

I was just thinking today that it may as well become standard for sponsors to
place at least on full movie for each pay site in the affiliate content section.

All affiliates will have the same movie so big deal.
And if one free movie is a big lost to the sponsor then that sponsor doesn't
have enough content to even be in the game today.