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Originally Posted by DrinkingHARDEST
What Homegrown could do RIGHT NOW is take the proactive stance. You could be making deals with the torrent sites to take down or promote your content. You could also be doing some piracy protection and saturation that would definetely make your content harder to get at...
If Far-L or Spike want some prudent specific advice on how to handle this just tell them to call me. I'll be glad to offer some advice...
DH
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We do... we DMCA our content where we can find it but we would need an army of lawyers to find every single torrent and DMCA every single site. Making deals with torrent sites? That smacks of blackmail.. we should be dealing with torrent sites on the up and up so they won't rip us off? Where are the principles in this business?
As far as piracy protection, security etc, we are always working on ways to do this, along with many other companies that are all looking toward the same goal.. the only problem being is that for as long as there is hackers, there will be people cracking protection and encryption and security (and often just as quickly as it's put out there). How does it make sense to turn around and say "Ok, so they're going to steal our stuff anyways, instead, let's just GIVE IT ALL AWAY FOR FREE!". How is that going to increase the value of our membership sites for our valued members and customers, who are the lifeblood and reason we do what we do? How is it going to make money in the end when it all dries up and everyone has everything for free? Should we spend extra money producing content to give out for nothing so that we can continue to support and uphold companies who are going to profit off of us (and others) by thievery either way? And not just us, but all the other companies that have their content being watered down and ripped off continually (unknowingly and unwantingly), thereby devaluing everything we are all attempting to achieve as an industry? If you don't think the implications of this are that far-reaching, you haven't looked too far into the future. How can that really and truly be justified? How is that going to work well for the long-term business plan? Can you afford to feed the world's porn habits for free forever? Sure, it might mean signups FOR THE MOMENT, but see at how much more quickly things stop selling these days, remember back to the golden days of porn and ask yourself what is different? When did the balance tip and things change? Torrent sites and similar sites have had a massive (negative) impact on website memberships and DVD sales since inception. It's going to get worse, not better, and what will we do for the torrent traffic when there's no more sites left to upsell, because all the surfer has to do is search for the website and find all their content right there for free?
As far as your offer, thank you I will pass it along. We are working on many of our own solutions to these issues as well (unfortunately no solutions are created overnight). Knowing the way they feel about fighting for the integity of the industry, I'm sure you would know along with everyone else that this will be forefront in their minds.
