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Originally Posted by Ron Bennett
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?
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I doubt I would notice any sales difference TOMORROW or NEXT YEAR if I stopped policing my content. I would like to earn money from the content I produce TODAY for as long as possible. therefore, I am thinking more about 1-5 or more years into the future.
I can imagine that in 10 years or more, when bandwidth and servers are very cheap, there will be sites with full or almost full copies of thousands of member area's. They will be hosted in East Europe, Africa, Asia, South America ... They will employ some kind of rapidshare type setup to stay borderline legal. They will simply give away all those member areas just to get traffic and upsell to something else.
My plan is to not be one of the thousands of sites that is ripped and being freely distributed. My fear is that it won't matter if my site is there or not because I may lose most of my members because they will be too busy downloading free porn to bother with a paysite. This is the reason I am here telling other paysite owners how to stop piracy of their copyright works.