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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
The problem is that you are looking at this from the old school angle. "I paid $2000 for this content and someone stole it, they are costing me money!"
They didn't pay $2000 and they are diluting how much you'll make on $2000 worth of content, sure. Based on the OLD way of doing business.
Problem being, the new way of delivering content has been tested in mainstream and adult and results are in. If it's worth paying for content, putting up a site, billing $30 per month and paying affiliates a good revshare or PPS it is also worth buying content, throwing it up on a free tube that you own, upselling a CHEAP membership to see more of that content or letting them buy an entire scene or group of scenes for a few bucks.
In the near future the content you pay $2000 for and end up clearing $10,000 on won't be enough to break even because the new delivery methods will be utilized by smart companies regardless of what the laws are and you'll have the same kind of competition anyhow.
Yes they need to stop people from outright stealing your stuff but it will not be the magic bullet that fixes this industry like most assume.  |
But that's not the point, of course you need to make money in any environment and waiting for someone else to solve your problems never works.
But if you own a copyright to something you should have the right to fully monetize it as well as the right to protect its copyright, which of course goes hand to hand.
None of which even remotely works at the moment, and I'm not talking about a criminal offense (people will always steal and you can't stop piracy) - I'm talking about a loophole in the existing legal system (DMCA) that enabled the new "standard" of not having to care about copyright on the web.