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Who is responsible for the rise of Torrent and sites giving porn away?
Stealing content on the Internet is easy, in fact we make it easy and do nothing to stop them. Also we do nothing to stop them when they do steal it.
Putting up a site I suspect is something any programmer could do.
Getting hosting is easy.
Getting people to advertise and support these sites is easy.
And most of all getting traffic, the King for so many, is the easiest part. So many do not see how it's done you have to ask yourself what are they thinking. Getting traffic on the Net is easy, too bloody easy. The tough part, for many, is getting enough to sell to one person a product that clearly the vast majority are not interested in buying from us.
Most sites selling porn memberships will be lucky to convert at 1-500, leaving out the micro niche sites with low traffic, and I suspect the industry average is much higher.
I would imagine converting a surfer to a bookmarker on a Torrent site is a lot lower than 1-500. And that's the key to their success. The surfers prefer them to us. Don't tell me it's because it's free, thats a poor excuse for losing customers.
So why have we lost the support of our customers?
After 10 years of building a product that suited us, over charging the customer at best and at worse ripping him off, of thinking the customer is a fool for buying, thinking he wants to charge back, trick us, download our whole site and every other thing we say about him. What the fuck are you thinking of?
There's a thread on this board that illustrates the real problem, about who do we respect. Some listed are responsible for building the product we have and do not deserve our respect.
The person who we should respect is the last one we think of. The customer. Now we are all screaming because sites are stealing our customers. They are not stealing them, we do not own the surfer. He's choosing to go see porn on a crappy mish mash of a site at a crap download speed, shit resolution because he prefers it to what we are offering.
Maybe if we had respected the customer more we would have more of them.
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