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Originally Posted by iseeyou
...Why is it so easy to find so many sites offering copyright picture/video downloads? Are the paysite owner's too busy to care? Or they like their member's area stuff to be freely distributed? I want to know.
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They are giving members what they want - easy, fast access to content...
Downloading in bulk is convenient, and can actually save bandwidth / less server load - better to have a member download an entire gallery at once than doing numerous requests. Obviously allowing downloading of an entire member's area at once is a bad idea, but usually ok at gallery level.
Time is money ... consider how much time and effort you personally put into tracking down users, sending C&Ds, etc ...
Is all of that truly making a difference - that is to say, if you stopped doing much of that, would your sales be overly affected?
On a related note, many pay sites (not all because there are members who do mind) have their website name, etc on all of their images / videos in member areas - so when such content gets shared, the site gets exposure and hence additional traffic they can work to convert to more paid members.
Ron