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Originally Posted by TeaForOne
It's all pointless. Piracy always has been and always will be. It's a never ending progression from one platform to another.. one technology to another. Online piracys' gone from BBS > FTP > Newsgroup > HTTP > Torrent > File lockers/Tubes or something like that. The torrent crowd will move onto the file lockers. The money just moves from the torrent site owners to the file locker site owners. The advertisers keep on banking.
The cheapening of bandwith and increasing speeds will make it all the more worse. The general public will grow more and more pirate-savy. I don't see file lockers ever going (international laws being what they are) but if they did, something else would just come and replace them. What? I don't know. Crypto-P2P? Massive RDP service roll-out?
OR... you learn some actual marketing skills (rather soley than relying on spamming tits + ass across the internet) and create a sales funnel that monetizes free content first and benefits from upsells later.
If you can montize your content whilst it's all out there, then you're gonna bank so fucking hard with this downloading/social generation of traffic.
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I love these expert nics that pop up out of nowhere.
Yes, piracy has always been here. They were bootlegging VHS tapes back in the day, then bootlegged DVDs, now internet videos.
The difference between now and then is... THE PIRATES USED TO SELL THE BOOTLEGS.
(Read the part in red a few times until it sinks in)
Huuuuuuge difference between someone jacking your videos and selling them vs jacking your videos and giving them away for free on every street corner. I know some of you are too dense to know there is a difference, or maybe you were not even around back then to see it, but at least ALL porn consumers were still paying for porn back then if they were in a store. If all of the stores used to let people just walk in and take anything they wanted for free, hoping they will buy some gum or a dildo on the way out, it would have destroyed most companies at that time too, including the bulk of the porn stores.
Now the pirates give it away an an attempt to make money elsewhere. Totally fucking stupid because they didn't have to do that. They could have sold it just the same (or even at a discount) and not conditioned an entire generation of what would be porn consumers into not paying for porn. Somewhere along the way someone got the bright idea of using porn someone would normally pay for as a loss leader, and it went downhill from there. It hurt everyone and continues to hurt everyone, even the pirate sites, and it will continue to hurt them. Only the most clever of the pirates will survive.
But that's what you get when you have a bunch of criminals and ex-cons running a "business."
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Originally Posted by TeaForOne
The only hope for most of digital content producers is to make shit so good Joe Bloggs wants it more than the effort of downloading it, he just puts his CC # into somewhere legit.
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Congrats, you just figured out how to beat piracy. Give yourself a raise.