Originally Posted by Robbie

Heck no. First thing I had to do was protect my content. That changed things for us dramatically almost 3 years ago. If I hadn't white knuckled it and made the decision to go with a protected stream (and risk losing all my members and rebills) I don't think I'd be in business today.

And then I decided to turn the tour and members area into a "tube" and hacked up my mech bunny script to do my bidding. That was in 2008...and again was a big leap of faith.

And of course we started streaming our own weekly free live cam show starting in 2007 with everything self contained (not using ANY third party company to do it).

So yeah, I've always been about making a paysite that I personally would enjoy. And we are able to monetize it and get traffic in ways that 99% of paysites can't (the aformentioned fact that every major traffic site has a streamate white label and we sell memberships to claudiamarie.com with one click off of streamate...the most targeted traffic EVER) and that also includes our ability to do things virally and social network-wise that most "big" paysites simply can't do.

So yeah, I've "evolved".
But piracy and full free scenes for free still affect me.
They destroyed the affiliate business for paysites. And they have taken away God only knows how much money that we all would be making from spur of the moment impulse and middle of the night drunk sales that this industry used to make millions with.

Anyway...you're last comment:


Now THAT is universal wisdom. Whether it's the adult biz, the car business, insurance salesman, or a kid with a lemonade stand.