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Originally Posted by Shap
It is important to remember that not all paysites are the same. I agree 100% with a small niche paysite you have to protect your content by all means necessary. That doesn't apply to us. Our product is different and our members are different. I can see that people are missing the point in this thread. It's not 100% black and white. There are alot of grey areas that need to be dealt with differently.
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Your product is no different. What you are selling to the member is different.
Outside of that...
If currently your sales are doing fine and growing the way things are, then don't worry about it. You are correct, it isn't black and white. The download model does work perfectly fine.
On that note, if your sales are slipping maybe trying something new that could produce a new volume of returns and change rebill percentages may be something worth looking into.
But not doing it because you think your members will get upset, just doesn't make a lost since. You would provide your members with a totally kick ass player. It's what you do, and your members would love you for it. It's better than downloads but they need to see it first, play with it, get it pushed to them a little. Then when it's okay, start converting everything else.
Personally.. I don't care what any of you guys do. I just don't like that idea that people bash DRM that truly haven't tried it or think it's the same as it was 10 years ago. I still think piracy provides sales for paysites, but then again I feel protecting your streams right now would probably provide you more sales and rebills. More than pissed off members, piracy, ect..
Things are changing and I'm loving the way online streaming media is going. I freakin love hulu... I can't wait for it to get better and better over the years. Downloading crap sucked.