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Originally Posted by bronco67
I think it will break down something like this in the end:
80% --scum that just take it for free.
10% --cheap bastards that pay one penny
9% --people who understand the idea and want the artist to get paid, so they do about 5 bucks
1% - people that overpay anywhere from 10 bucks up to 100, because they really love Louis CK.
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Spot on. Pirating is now cultural. They download it because it's free sometimes, not because they want it. It's free so grab it and then decide if they like it. Scum will always find an excuse to be scum, as Jim points out in the previous post.
Will crashing the price or adopting a price structure, as I suggested, bring enough back to paying after the way we treated them? Highly unlikely IMO.
Will affiliates send traffic to sites where they earn less or likely to earn less? Highly unlikely IMO. Kane points it out here.
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What you are describing has been around for a while. There are many sites that offer pay per view. The pricing might not be great (in all honesty I'm not sure how much they charge) but there are many sites out there where you can pay per minute or pay to just watch one video on the site and nothing more. If you just want to watch 8 minutes of a movie, that is all you pay for.
Even if you came up with a world class system that delivered a ton of great content at a very good price that the buyer could pay per minute or video watched etc you still need traffic. The best site in the world is nothing without visitors. This isn't Field of Dreams. If you build it, they just don't show up. You still have to market the site and get people to i.
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Yes I know there are sites, as you say they have to over charge to get traffic. Classic Catch 22.
We made our bed before hosting costs nose dived, we now have to live with it. We built the wall and now we can't knock it down. Affiliates are very much in charge.
Even Pornhub is an "affiliate" in that it's not a paysite, it's purely a site to drive traffic to certain places. Multiply the traffic of PH by the 20 other top Tubes, reckon on the conversion rate. Then compare it to 2005 and do the same with the top 20 TGP sites. And you have in a nutshell why the business has nose dived.
The argument "it brought millions to porn" is bullshit. As most left their money at home.
