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Originally Posted by Biggy
Here's the final thought on this. We are hardly the first big company to watermark our content with a different URL like a megasite. I think in this day and age, with the amount of piracy going on, it's fair to 'brand' your content. Whether it goes to the original url, or a different url, if the surfer types it in before they click, no cookie is stored, but what sponsor today is going to give out non-watermarked content when piracy is at its height? if the click before, your cookie is already stored. I think its also important to note that humiliated.com is no different than pornpros.com - humiliated.com is a simple cookieless redirect to pornpros.com
humiliated.com wasn't random - theres a reason we are branding it. at the end of the day, its our job to deliver results to affiliates so they make the most cash. i think we do that well, better than most. promote us because we make you more $$$, end of story. we cannot satisfy everyone nor do we think everyone agrees with every decision we make, but the one thing we always remain consistent on - if our affiliates dont make good money, then we wont be in business for long, and our business is predicated on that. if people don't make sales, then they wont promote us. the reality is - we have some of the most unique and best content out, people make money with us, we run $100 PPS days almost every week, and affiliates earn with us. i would hardly call that disrespectful to affiliates.  |
O.M.G... This is so full of misinformation that it borders on being criminal... Putting your watermark on the video has ZERO to do with protecting it. It's about "BRANDING".. that's a MARKETING term.. You want surfers to remember the name of the site and TYPE IT IN thus gaining the program sales they keep 100% to themselves. And when surfers see a video or pictures on a site that's advertising another site, they will type in the domain thus cutting out the affiliate. Anyone that doesn't believe that is a moron.. Any program saying it doesn't happen or is "minimal" is a blatent liar. Surfers have been trained over the year to know that the content they see on a gallery is NOT what they will necessarily get if they sign up to the program.. Knowing that, they're going to type in the domain to try and ensure they DO get that content.
Here's the kicker.. In order to "protect" their content, programs would be embedding their coywrite in the video themselves when they encode it.. VERY FEW do that.. THAT'S what's required to protect their property, NOT watermarking. Any program that isn't embedding the info in their videos is blatently lieing to you about why they use their branding watermarks.
So if you're an affiliate, then stop being stupid.. Rip the FHGs to your own server and cut out the fucking watermark.. You WILL see an increase in your sales. And if you're smart, you'll use a template system on the galleries so that if the site goes away or the program starts to redirect it, you can make the changes yourself in just minutes.