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Originally Posted by Robbie
What I saw in real life was that people who jerked off to a 10 second video clip (that was generally 250pixels wide (tiny) and super shitty quality) back when TGP's ruled the world....were either teenage boys or people without credit cards.
But you should know that already from owning a site and seeing what your sales are and where they come from and how people react to different marketing.
There is a huge difference between you picking and choosing what content and how much of it will be used for marketing (and making those decisions based on stats in front of you along with feedback from your surfers) VS having your members area pirated and posted up on tubes and bit torrent sites while you hope somebody will type in your watermark (that is when your watermark is still on it).
I don't consider "hope" much of a business model personally.
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First, how on Earth is a kid that can't buy porn in 1997 different than one that can't buy porn in 2012? They still are all going to go looking for free, free, free... and when they get old enough to afford the luxury of higher quality for a price, then I assure you - we live in a material world after all - and they will be educated by this society and culture to buy, buy, buy and quality is worth paying a price for.
There are ways to prevent member areas from being pirated. There are ways to go after pirates. Just like existed ten years ago.
I see you making broad claims about surfer behavior, types of buyers, etc., but I can honestly say, from personal experience of "the good ol' days", that a lot of those assertions about non-buyers were pure conjecture back then and not actually based on anything but supposition, not real data. Unless you can show me proof, I think some of the things you are claiming are urban myth.
Prime example, we have free content on tubes as you know, full channels even, but why does our Google type in traffic still convert just like the good ol' days? Why is our retention still amazing - just like you pointed out about Claudia too?