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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Libertine, if megatroic was paying for content, they would go broke. To keep up with the volume of content on that site, they would be shooting probably 50 - 100 scenes a week. That would be something like 50k - 100k a WEEK for content. You cannot base the concept of an acceptable business model on a site that doesn't pay a large percentage of it's true costs. They are covering the bandwidth and making a profit specifically because they aren't paying for content. If they did it all above board, they would be sunk in a minute.
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If they were using the amount of content they have now, and only using exclusive content, then yes, they would go broke. But non-exclusive content is much, much cheaper. And yes, people would sell to them, especially if they were buying in bulk.
Hell, a slight drop in bandwidth costs (which, in the long term, is inevitable) would give them enough financial room to purchase tens of thousands of non-exclusive scenes a year.
Of course, right now there simply is no reason for them to buy content.