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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Will it stop free porn? No Manwin and a few others are big enough to buy content, lets face it the cost of content has been driven into the ground. So the places that will benefit are the legal Tubes and legal Forums. They will have to monitor heavily, but the added traffic = profit will soon cover that. Roald will have to employ people to approve every post or filter in the companies that can be talked about and linked to. As most of the file lockers will be long gone, it will be easier.
Traderstock, well he will be between a hard place and a rock.
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Yes but Manwin and the big players will be looking get the most $$$ out of their content once something like ACTA or SOPA is passed. The tube model rose only because it was easy to steal somebodys work and hide behind loopholes. Remove the ability to get free content & make long term profits from stealing content a thing of the past, and most of the problem is solved. Also the file locker / file sharer sites, they are only a result of a temporary situation in the market.
In reality, SOPA or ACTA or whatever will be a game changing turn in the market. Legal tubes exist only because illegal tubes made porn easy to access for free so they had to adapt. Once the pirates finances become an easy target. the legal tube owners may well decide to move to a more profitable model again.
Tubes by themselves are a worthless model when content has to be payed for and can not be pirated without risk. Content costs $$$, hosting costs $$$$, mandatory police-ing of user content will cost $$$$, traffic costs $$$$ so the game will get very very expensive for tubes.
No business in the world can survive by giving away most of its product for free in hopes of the customer buying something down the road. Sure it's not the same in the brick and mortar world and with physical products but the tube model by itself is a
fundamentally flawed model that was a result of a temporary anomaly in the market once the market changes the model is not worth shit. Also keep in mind that in the real world they cant steal your stuff and get away with it so the real world will never see a "tube model". I don't care how much new sites/file sharing methods pop up the important thing is the ability to easily take them and their finances down before they mean shit traffic wise.
Again I repeat, people may be used to getting stuff for free but 30-40$ for a membership is not exactly a fortune and the stale free tube crap will not be as appealing when responsibility for content is introduced.