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Originally posted by Carrie
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Hello? You're kidding, right??
Once your membership with AAA has expired, do you still expect them to come tow your car? No.
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*That's* the problem right now you arn't selling a membership -- you *are* selling content. Just because you think you're selling memberships doesn't mean you are.
When you buy a Hustler at the store they don't come and take it away when the month is up, they don't send officers to your house to keep you from passing it to a friend, and the fold out sections arn't called pin ups for no reason.
When you buy a porn video it doesn't stop working after a set time, it isn't only set to work on one TV, and again you are free to pass it to a friend.
The Internet pay site works on the same model, because it allows users to save basically any content they want & use it any way they want right now. That's the model that users expect. DRM changes that.
There are some paysites that are selling memberships, but most really really arn't. Thier rebilling members stick around for new content -- like a magazine subscription. Most pay sites arn't a service, they're a product.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not here to bash DRM I'm just saying it *changes* things.