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Old 07-27-2007, 01:11 PM  
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It sounds like a Great idea to start, and it of course has Andrew's sick artwork reppin it, but I am not so sure about it long term. Sorry to be the first to disagree. I look at it like this:

Adult Rental has way more than 4000 titles yet this site is opening with only 4000. That has nothing to do with signing people up - its all about studios saying NO to letting their shit go at that pace, price and DRM security.

Offering 5 formats is going to be painful on bandwidth as well, which is not cheap for this kind of volume.

It costs $39.73 to the user who will do their best to rip off the entire site inside that first month. I can see some people forgetting to cancel or coming back to get more content, so about 2 payments ($79.46) for intelligent users and maybe 3 or 4 ($119.19 or $158.92) for the remainder. I don't play in the paysite arena anymore, but I do know that it's not the future of the internet.

How many users are signing up?
How much is going to each WM referral?
How much is going to CC processing?
How much is going to the studios?
How much is left for BW and associated business costs?

I do not necessarily wish a failure, just my opinion.
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