Originally Posted by Robbie

Completely dependent on the type of content you have. Are you a "mega-site" with generic content that you buy from content providers? Then you are fucked as it won't matter if you try and protect your content...somebody else has already uploaded it to torrents and tubes.

Do you shoot your own exclusive content and have some creativity and a market for the niche you are selling? Then the retention is great! Matter of fact it's the BEST because they need to stay a member to see the content.

But as I said in an older thread...I DO offer them a download version of every scene. Only thing is...the downloadable version is a small size and a small bit rate and is over watermarked. It's just fine for a true member to keep on his hard drive. But it's too small to be taken seriously on a torrent. And the bit rate is low enough that if it's uploaded to a tube site and re-encoded it will look like holy hell.

So the members of claudia-marie.com get a fast, instantly playing, able to move anywhere in the movie and stream instantly without downloading high res streaming vid. And they get a lower quality downloadable version if they so desire it. But even though I offer the download...I'm finding as time goes by less and less people actually do download. Why would they? Downloading sucks and takes time.