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?

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.

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.