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Old 11-26-2010, 07:31 AM  
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Micro-niche in general works great until some asshole (or a company of said assholes) comes in and makes a big pirate tube with 50 minute full scene videos targeting your micro-niche. It's mostly just a matter of time. Visualize it as being on an island where the water surrounding the island keeps rising uncontrollably and with no end in sight. You can keep seeking higher and higher ground as the water overtakes more land but eventually you'll have no where to go.

It's on the content owner to protect their content from the said assholes in question and it's also on the affiliate to try to only work with sponsors who are working to keep their stuff off pirate tubes. Optional step is not to do business with those who contribute to piracy. If the industry did this last step four years ago, who would argue with me that things would have likely been very different now? Those pirate tubes might still exist but they'd be smaller and would be pushing premium Usenet access and torrents not pay sites or dating and cams. It would be harder for them to monetize that traffic.

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