Originally Posted by spacedog

SykkBoy,

I am an affiliate of Adult Paymaster.

I am earning $19.75 per thousand uniques via your program.
I value our business relationship even though it is a passive one, however, I'd like to offer my greivances in regards to this situation.

I know you're thinking about your bottom line & the revenue generated from ads on such sites, however, this is a problem that affects all of our peers in this industry.

Our nature in this business is to sell memberships. Those membership sales & retention have been on rapid decline since these tube & torrent sites started giving it all away for free and it affects everyone from the affiliate to the program owners & the content producers.

How long will it take before there's a catastrophic failure to the business model of the online adult paysites.

The only way to put a dent into these sites that push stolen content for free is to cut off their funding. These types of sites are not going to go away because it is profitable for them, so we as an industry, must all work together to fight this as a common cause and cut off their funding as well as continue to send DMCA notices etc, because these sites are a big threat to all of our livelihoods. Our incomes will continue to decline as more surfers find these kinds of sites.

The sales you make from that site in my opinion are not worth the damage to your reputation, nor worth the risk of losing current affiliates.

It is your business and you'll decide what is best for your company, but I am asking you to look at this from another viewpoint since you seem to only be looking at the bottom line coming from a single source.. You need to consider the bigger picture..

I value your program as a source of revenue for my sites, however, I value the collaborative effort to fight content theft more because content theft affects my bottom line and it should concern you as well.