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Originally Posted by RogerV
the top tgp's would have to set the standard but they might be scared since they already are happy with the money they make and dont want to lose a foothold on there positon which I totally understand.. Or maybe it will take all the programs to come up with a standard.
Either way I think someone needs to start a show where we can all come togther like a forum and figure something out so we all benefit
this is why I threw an idea out that might make some sense and was hoping for some gfy brainstorming
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In the big scheme of things though TGP are a "quick money" type deal. Especially with the way partner accounts are brokered (not neccessarily a bad thing, that's just the way the current system works). They can only plan ahead for the future so far, since they are in effect riding the trends. Tgp is a huge crap shoot, what converts one week with certain traffic may not work the next week, they have to be quick on the impact as far as sales are concerned. Their numbers are more based on volume. When you are dealing with volumes, impact is a huge factor in grabbing a surfer's attention, and it just remains a fact that shock value or extremism works more effectively in a high-traffic volume sales media.
This of course affects their business plan, and at this point in the progression of things, for them to totally scale things back with the volumes they're dealing with (which is often brokered or traded traffic - therefore at a cost to them and part of the bottom line), they would be effectively cutting themselves off at the knees. Unless ALL volume tgps (and smaller ones too, for that matter) were to make a softcore conversion all at once, the entire effect would be lost. And any interruption in revenue would be intolerable in the volumes these people are talking about.
There's a whole lot more to an undertaking like that then just tgp, as well. Then you would have to factor in the good majority of russian/asian (beyond reach of prosecution) sites/webmasters that would continue to offer hardcore stolen content and steal traffic an dollars from honest webmasters/site owners. Too many layers too the onion.