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Originally Posted by After Shock Media
They ripped their material from DVD's. Just about every successful site out there had DVD's as well so they got the paysites too. So yes they would exist just as they are.
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We have never released our videos on DVDs, and yet we have to DMCA our stuff off various illegal tube and torrent sites DAILY. I'm pretty sure that switching to streaming only model which we're going to do soon will help alot with that problem.
Sure many sites do have their stuff on DVDs but getting a DVD is way harder and more expensive than just going to members section with a stolen password and downloading. By cutting at least this source of infringenent off you'll surely decrease the amount of your stuff floating around. The effect will be less than in the case of sites that distribute their videos inside member areas only, but you'll still see the effect.
Tube site owners get lots of "help" from their users when it comes to collecting and uploading content, that's why many of them boast such an amazing variety of videos - one or several owners are hardly capable of getting such a broad scoop of stuff by visiting member areas and downloading, let alone ripping DVDs. The harder you make it for all of them (both surfers and tube site owners) to rip your vids, the less of them will be floating around.
Streaming is not 100% defence against infringements, but it reduces the amount of it to the a managable level.
If you do not have your videos on DVDs, not not sell in clipstores etc, streaming will reduce the amount of your stuff out there by 98% I think.
If you do some of the above, streaming will cut the amount of your stuff floating around by probably 80% - which is less then it is in the first case, but still not bad at all.