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Originally Posted by spunkmister
what if I go into mcdonalds, get a whole tray of burgers and then start selling them next door? is that considered a good competative business model?
If someone wants to give something away for free thats fine, IF its theirs to give away for free. Its not considered being competative if that person is taking others work and giving it away for free...thats theft.
You can compete with other businesses that are running a business, but how can you compete if you are willing to produce better quality products when that same product will be given away for free on a tube site within a week?
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I suggest you go learn how to flip burgers if you don't know the answer to that one.
Seriously it ain't going to stop unless you want to put your hands, yes your hands, very deep into your pockets to pay people to stop it. Yes the police on the streets are paid to stop theft, paid for by you and me.
So how can we compete with sites who steal the product to give away on sites that promote other sites?
As I pointed out these sites lack a lot of things a paysite should offer and things they can't steal or offer in return. The most obvious thing is quality of image. Tube sites have to compress to a level that makes the product poor quality. So speed of download and quality of image are two obvious things.
Next is the porn product, in both quality of porn and selection. Looking on Megarotic I see mostly sample clips, on the first page the average length of a video is 4 minutes 30 seconds. On the most viewed section it 9 minutes. If 9 minutes of a general mix of poor quality videos, poor selection, speed, limited downloading and all the other bad things about this site are stealing customers then what can you do to compete with them?
Maybe not sell the customer 30 days for $30 to a site with 30 videos that are no better than what's on Megarotic is the answer.
You have two options, you compete with the people running Tube sites for the traffic or you pay to police the Internet like you pay to police the streets. Maybe if affiliates took 10% less on sites that paid that money to constantly harass the thieves for stealing only their content.
Then affiliates can choose if they want to promote sites policing their content, for less, or go with those whining about it on GFY and doing little else. Or go with sites offering a product, service and value for money that competes with Tube sites.
There will always be people who will jerk off to anything and will not pay for it. They never did buy porn. The people we lost to Tube sites were people we were charging too much and people who find the disadvantages of a Tube site better than paying $30 for.
You can't charge $30 if 3 cents is all it takes to satisfy the customer.