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Originally Posted by Mutt
porntube is illegal - the problem in this industry is nobody sues anybody - no legal chill at all - oooooooo the dreaded C & D email has arrived - their knees shake - not. GUBA can attempt to hide behind the veil of being a quasi ISP providing USENET access via the WWW - there is NO defence for what PornoTube is - so if your content ends up on PornTube you either protect and enforce your copyrights or get raped. And when somebody gets raped in this industry few care - especially if the rapist is a top notch guy at tradeshows!
The studios who provide content to AEBN were too stupid to make money with their content on their own - same with the dumbasses who license their DVDs for chump change through brokers like WWC - they happily take the peanuts and think of it as gravy.
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This is why AEBN will succeed... of course AEBN will try and build things into their projects (storage limits, referal codes, reporting illegal content etc.), so it will look like they are working for the content owner. However its all smoke and mirrors, which serves to save their ass. However logic would have that if they didnīt build these "pirate bays", then there wouldnīt be a problem in the first place
But when you look at the bottomline, then ANY studio could make TONS more money by not handing over their product/content to a company, which does not work on maximizing profits. Another benefit would be control over the content... would you trust someone with your content who also run sites, which is designed for people to "share" content?
They can call it "web 2.0" or "the future" as much as they please, but its all old concepts. User driven content have been around since the internet was created, and before that on BBS, and even before that on disks, tapes, paper etc.
So what made the golden years in the 90s on the internet, if the concept of free was already around on planet earth? It was because business people knew that surfers were willing to pay for "quality, quantity, and convenience" (thanks shiloh451), so why bother with giving away free content?
Those who broke away from that ideal business concept, where surfers with their backdoor sites (ex. thehun started as a backdoor site). Canīt really blame them - no one did anything legal to stop them, and so today history repeats itself with AEBNīs desire to once again make "quality, quantity, and convenience" FREE to the surfers - all in the name of "quick traffic numbers" instead of "long term bottomline".