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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If there is a solution it lies in the product we sell. It has to really compete with what's available for free. The problem isn't creating the product. The problem is affording it. With the massive cost today of traffic, very little is left for the product.
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Paul are you saying that more money needs to be spent to shoot content for the paysite? To day in and day out create porn that costs a lot of money to produce with lavish sets, etc.? Or hiring old school videographers to come out and bring in "real" film cameras and shoot for a lot of money?
Problem: As soon as it goes up on the site...within an hour it is stolen and then the new expensive porn is now "free" as well.
My approach has been to protect my content to the best of my ability. So far the protected stream (similar to what borked wrote about with a few twists of my own) has not been broken to be downloaded. (I do give them a small resolution version to download). And whenever we find a copy of the small rez one or an older vid that I had up that was downloadable we have RemoveYourContent dmca it down.
That way I am keeping my content's value to our members. Their membership actually means something...plus the fact that the inside of the members area is similar to a social network where they have a wall to post on and private message Claudia Marie and lots more ways to PERSONALLY interact with her.
THAT is what I feel makes a membership to her site have value for her fans. Much more so than just stealing the recorded videos and pictures or viewing them on pirate tubes like pornhub.
What is your solution to the fact that all this new content being shot by the "masters" that will cost a fortune to produce will almost instantly be worthless because it will be stolen and uploaded to a thousand torrents, a thousand file share sites, and a thousand Manwin tube sites?
My solution is plain and clear: Protect your content and then give the members personal interaction with the star.
But sites like Brazzers can not do that. They hire girls to shoot a scene (just like you just did for them) and then that girl isn't going to be there in the members area to interact with the customers.
So what value does a scene shot for a lot of money have in these circumstances?
None.
Not until PIRACY is under control.
I would strongly advise all serious paysite owners in this thread to think about what I'm saying. I've seen it with my own eyes. And if it didn't work...I wouldn't do it, I'd find something else that did work. No theories. No guessing. Just plain out this is the only way to get sales going again for your site and to make a membership to your site have value.
Your customers do NOT like to find out that the membership they pay for is useless because everyone else in the world is watching them for free...and that would include any content shot by Paul or any of the names he dropped in this thread.