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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
There's this massive fear if we couldn't process via CCs online porn would die. Can't for the life of me work out why. IMO it would be the biggest boost to the porn industry ever.
All those now addicted to getting their porn online, will simply go buy it in shops. Like they had done for decades. People like You and I would be fine. We produced porn, so we produce porn for offline sales and porn gets a huge boost.
Affiliates can push something else, dating goes non porn and live webcam, well they are fucked. But should we producers care about them?
About as much as they care about us getting traffic off the piracy sites. Or as much as they care about producers facing a hard time while they don't. Yes Barry, when piracy digs into the income of Webcams, come and tell me about it. Until then piracy isn't your problem so.  |
My fellow producers confirm that DVD sales from online stores and shops) are doing better than ever. I'll pick up the DVD thing again soon.
At the moment about 10% of payments for my member sections are by direct debit, SOFORT and phone pin. I'm already considering offering direct debit as the only payment option for Europeans, and not offer credit card payment for them. Also I'm working on new member sections with new exclusive full HD content, live shows and live 1-1 cam, with payment accepted by a bank transfer only. The customer has to pay for one year access in advance by nothing but a bank wire. With the bank wire his name and address are reveiled, and all downloaded content will have the member ip watermark inside it. Then if they ever upload it to another site, I'll take legal action against them. They'll get warned for this every time they enter the member section and I'm totally sure none will have the courage to upload any of my content to other sites.
By then I can worry less about what they do with my HD content in my current member sections. If they upload to other sites, that's fucked, but at the same time it will be free advertising for my full HD sites.
My content is very popular within its own niches and I'm talking to a bunch of gorgeous new models (UK, USA, eastern-Europe, France, Holland) willing to go all the way for decent payment, and I'm totally sure that die hard fans are willing to do the upfront bank transfer. If they aren't, there won't be any way for them to see it.
So to cut a long story short; no I don't need MC and Visa and I won't crawl through shit for them.
But what do you and I know Paul? You and I are old porn producers who were already doing it before the internet existed. Remember how you always had to take the highway if you wanted to sell something even though the shop was just around the corner? After all, we just needed the fucking traffic didn't we? One day without traffic, one day not spending hours on the highway, and you were out of business!
It's all about the content, everything else is just side crap.
