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You were asked "If products are reasonably priced piracy can be reduced but never deterred. Who the hell pays for 40 bucks for a porno dvd and why should it cost that much?"
A reasonable question because places like STEAM have shown that if you price your digital goods at a level that your consumers consider acceptable and provide a good user experience then piracy is mostly a non issue.
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The problem with bringing down the price to the iTunes level is it will hit you the hardest.
Because traffic is the most expensive part of the online porn industry. So instead of paying $30 a month. Users will be charged 50 cents or $1 a day on a days membership. To get down to that price it means traffic costs will have to be slashed.
Then to get the "good user experience" will take content budgets to rise. It's simply not possible or practical to think good content can be produced for the price this industry is prepared to pay. $5,000 for a BG scene, $2,000 for a 2 girl and $1,000 for a solo girl are probably the starting prices. This is never going to happen unless the industry goes back to non exclusive, when we earned that from a scene on store sales alone easily.
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$30 per month porn is Rolex pricing in the internet world. Not for all, just most.
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How much do webcam charge a minute?
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Oh this argument again? Nobody here is saying that anyone should be able to steal your shit, just that you can't fucking stop it. Can you get that through your head? You can't fucking stop this shit, you aren't going to, you are going to have to adjust, die or float along at a fraction of your former glory because you are too bitter and stubborn to do anything about it.
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No you can't stop it, what you can do is severely limit it. If advertisers and sellers of ads, were liable to get dragged into court and sued for damages. The ads would dry up. Without funding, the piracy sites have nothing to fund them. If a piracy forum finds the file lockers gone, the traffic is gone and advertising pointless. Some may switch to a legal forum, most will die.
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I sure do, too bad most of the internet does not give a fuck about L-Pink from GFY. Now what are you going to do? The law is not going to save you, ever.
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True. For L-pink, me and
you. Tubes with legal content will pick up the traffic, maybe they will sell it to you to sell on. Maybe they will sell direct. Change is coming adapt or die.
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Also, you're all self righteous about how you would never pirate anything so obviously you must be an upstanding moral citizen that doesn't do anything one would find questionable. You know, like produce or sell porn?
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Is being an upstanding moral person bad? Producing and selling porn, which is the portraying of a very natural act isn't bad.
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The fact of the matter is that piracy can't be stopped. When someone tells you that and you jump in with all the reasons you are against it *again* it makes you look retarded. We know you are against it, almost every fucking person here would be happy if magically stopped tomorrow but it's not going to happen.
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Not going to happen?????? You're dreaming. There's too much big money behind it for it not to happen. you hope its not goig to happen.
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And one more tidbit just for the record. Copyright laws were intended to keep the flow of information going. They were not created with the purpose of making sure you get paid for every video of a girl being tag teamed by 5 guys that you "own". They begrudgingly accepted the fact that "artistic works" would be copyrighted to give you a monetary incentive to keep releasing them to the public but they never gave a shit about you making money from your ideas. Copyright was for the greater good of society, not your pocketbook. The only reason that all of the arguments fall onto protecting your income streams is that corporations have a lopsided influence on our laws.
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Copyright laws protect the creator so he can carry on creating, by producing a profit.
It's amazing that in an industry that used to be a lot about selling recorded porn so many are in favor of piracy now.
