Someone was asking for people willing to fill out an interview for a blog experiment. I don't think it ever got published, but this is what I think:
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11) What future projects would you like to explore or what future trends do you see for online business?
GeoIP is still way too underdeveloped and we should see some interesting changes in its use in the future.
I’m worried about how producers will enforce their copyright of their productions. Up until now, the online porn business had been very permissive about the whole Bittorrent and P2P thing. If anything, they tried to profit out of it. Lately, I’ve been noticing trends that resemble those of the early RIAA and MPAA and it saddens me because everyone knows how everything these two organizations have ever done has resulted in embarrassment. Quite recently, they had their first big victory and it was against AllOfMp3.com. They were able to block credit card processing for that site and now their customers cannot refill their accounts. Unless a miracle happens, AllOfMp3.com is bleeding to death. This is exactly what the adult industry has to do. Go after the funding of these pirate sites and let them slowly bleed to death. It doesn’t matter if you’re a freedom-fighting cyberpunk. If you don’t have the funding for it, you simply cannot do it.
I think that the industry is going the wrong way and that DRM and embedding videos is a mistake; the very same one that the RIAA made. Some websites have started to cripple the whole experience to the people that are actually buying their memberships! Let’s be honest, nobody wants to watch a porn video embedded in some pink background. To make things worse, some of these people are not using specialized media-streaming servers, so the videos keep on buffering! Don't even get me started on DRM...
Call me old fashioned, but when I buy a membership I want to be able to download and store my favorite clips for later viewing. I like to watch them as many times as I want in full screen and without those annoying pauses while the media buffers.
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Here's something that I posted on another board a while ago as well:
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Anything with DRM will inevitably suck because you're cutting down on your consumer's rights. Every single measure that the RIAA and MPAA have taken has screwed the legitimate consumers while doing nothing to stop the leechers. I would definitely steer clear of DRM.
See, the problem is that by using DRM or even embedding videos in your member's areas, you're changing business. You are going from selling content to renting content. Sure, it might help rebill for a while, but after surfers start realizing that they can own their content by getting it from torrents as opposed to renting it for as long as they stay members of that site, we're going to have another problem.
We SELL porn, we do not RENT it. We don't care where our customer watches our porn, or if he copies it to his laptop to watch while he's on a business trip, away from his loving wife; we just want him to buy it and keep buying it if we're putting out new stuff. Our "license" is on a per dick basis, not on a "per computer" or even worse, "per motherboard", like Microsoft's abusive EULA.
Embedding videos or applying DRM would be shooting ourselves in the foot and I believe that it would actually drive people straight to torrent sites.
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At least my humble opinion on the whole subject...