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Originally Posted by Weppel
You sir, are clueless. Comparing TGP's vs regular torrent sites is just stupid. Go plot your nice graph again, but do it with some porn-only torrent sites and you'll see that the surfers visiting porn torrent sites are really just a handfull compared to oh say Torrentspy and Piratebay.
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Puretna is strictly a porn torrent site, so that graph is what you're asking to see (with the exception of TorrentSpy.) I do think that Puretna is the largest porn torrent site however...so others will be smaller.
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Originally Posted by Weppel
95% of the people that visit those torrent sites are just looking for an illegal copy of windows, their favourite tv-show or that one mp3 album they heard the other day.
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But what happens when the porn viewers in this 95% you speak of decide they wanna find some porn to watch? I doubt they'll forget that torrents exist, especially when most have sections dedicated to porn.
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Originally Posted by Weppel
I agree that handing out complete member area's is just stupid and should be stopped, but why complain about those 2-5 minute clips that are posted on porntubes? It's just business, a fast evolving business that is. Stop complaining and get with the program or feel the consequences in a few years from now. I have the distinct idea that very few people here are innovators, and that's what we should be right at this moment. Stop bitching and go find a way to make money off of those porntubes, I know I've found one.
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The more free content that is given away, the worse ratios will become. This has been evident for years. You speak as if this method of increased free content could go on forever whilst still making sales - unfortunately it can't. At some point the ratios become so horrible that the bandwidth used / effort exerted cannot be justified. At this point and beyond paysites lose their budget to buy new content. And since content purchasing declines, content creation does, too...unless, as Paul Markham suggests, you are able to create content extremely cheaply & still turn a profit (but we're talking 20 cents a movie here.)
Back to the affiliate perspective: Say you decided to promote cams and/or dating instead of paysites because that content cannot be torrented. What would you use to bait the surfers into coming to your site? Hopefully not video clips or pictures, because surfers will have torrents for that. And they can get high quality full-length movies, not mid to low grade 10-20 second clips.
If torrents continue to distribute 5 min+ clips (and that's being conservative,) it will eventually make all types of freesites & paysites obsolete. Anything that is not concrete will decline significantly in value. If you've come up with a business model that doesn't involve content, then I applaud you & hope it works out. If not, then I'd come up with a new gameplan before telling everyone to simply 'adapt.'