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Originally Posted by AlienQ
I think Aeirk ya might wanna just get over yourself...
So far you have tackled content piracy, held hidden meetings, divided some people from others in the process and now ya wanna work on Ethical Adult Sites and business practices...
Yup I would about say you have definatly lost it.
I used to be like you dude. Ya won't make a fucking difference crying about content thieves and pointing out companies that that engage in "Unethical" business.
All it does is alienate you, and make people hate you and in the long run come back to bite you in the ass as doors close.
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I have been spending a ton of time lately on various forums that provide links to illegally download content for a project I'm working on, and I will say beyond a shadow of a doubt that one is directly related to the other. I'm not saying that because I'm speculating, I'm saying that because that is what I have been told by countless members of these forums.
You are going to get a percentage of people that will never download content from torrents or file sharing sites because they are against theft. Unfortunately, that is a very small percentage.
You are also going to get a percentage that is computer illiterate and will join adult sites strictly because they are overwhelmed by trying to figure out how to get content for free, no matter how easy it may be. This was a large percentage but it is rapidly shrinking.
Then you will get the percentage that don't have a pot to piss in, and can't afford to join a porn site. You can lump them in with the people that have money but will NEVER pay for porn. They are a lost cause.
Finally, you have a percentage that used to buy memberships to every porn site under the sun, and were an affiliate's/program owner's dream. Somewhere along the line they got fucked, either from a prechecked cross sell to their debit card that caused their other checks to bounce, a member's area that didn't update once during their membership, a customer service issue that went ignored, etc. They are the one's that we didn't have to lose, but once they took it in the ass repeatedly they used that as a justification to steal porn from that point forward. I honestly believe this is the largest percentage that matters.
So yes, you take care of the members you have, and they won't go looking for that free lunch. You piss them off, and you have a problem...