Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Thanks for the responses so far where people put some thought into it besides merely making ridiculous comments or kissing someone's ass.

I do understand that on some level the exposure can help to get your brand out there where previously it was unknown. Especially if your content is a lot better than anyone in your niche or even better you are the only site in the niche. But I still hold that eventually your full scene content getting out there is going to come back to bite you at some point. Any advantage you have also erodes with time as your competitors join in the game. Soon when 12 of your competitors are releasing full scenes (or have them stolen) it's going to effect you too to some extent because x% of surfers will settle for the free content your competitors have made available on the tube rather than use yours. It doesn't matter how much better your content is because to some extent you are going to lose a certain percentage of sales. As many state you are training the customer to not pay for porn. Don't believe me? Check out this link:

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&safe=o...or+porn%22+lol

1. "lol at people who pay for porn"
2. does anyone actually pay for porn anymore? [Archive]
3. Just pay for porn, already
4. Why pay for Porn when you can get it free? - The Debate Team
5. Pay for porn? lol -- LiveWire Teen Forums

See the problem yet? No offense but if you are a pay site owner and you can't see a problem with this then I don't know what more to say. The only thing I can think of is that you don't plan to sell membership based websites in the long term future.

But the real issue here isn't the tube model or even user uploads. The real issue is theft. If a paysite owner is stupid enough to upload their member's area to PornHub then they have every right to do that.