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Originally Posted by davethedope
On a given day, we can say at least tubes get 2mil uv. If you combine that number with the uvs of forums and torrents and misc. outlets, that number becomes even bigger.
How can a site owner or copyright owner properly quantify the amount lost with those kinds of statistics?
For small programs and programs with licensed content, the indirect effect of piracy is much greater than direct piracy of content.
At $500 a year, at least, I can't see how that would have any impact on membership sales. I mean what can you expect for a little over a dollar a day that can't be recouped by 1 dollar a day more spent in marketing?
That comes to about 16 memberships over the course of a year.
As for filelockers themselves, are they not dependent on the outlets more than the locker itself?
I cant get passed the fact an organization like copycontrol is necessary in theory, however, it seems like it should be organized not as an enterprise, but as a voluntary association, with voluntary donations or dues with privilages, with transparent record keeping.
Basically, the problem seems to be greater than one owner's own content.
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If you're saying what I think you are, I agree. An association
is needed, not another seemingly private enterprise (all of which, of course, have an obvious interest in
not stopping what they're being paid to stop), and porn in general should start looking at how other industries operate, as well as start to take a more zero tolerance attitude generally towards shady practices in the industry.
Hollywood movies, TV shows and full length albums are available as torrents and on file lockers. Obviously measures should be taken to deal with those, but one thing you absolutely do not see is hosted tube sites dedicated to Hollywood movies, TV shows and full albums.
Sure there are albums and movies on Youtube, but unlike porn tubes it's a drop in the ocean compared to the overall content, they're regularly deleted, the accounts are banned, they are not found and updated on the front page and it's clearly not the focus or raison d'etre of the site.
Movies, TV and music are vastly more popular than porn, so why are there no tube sites dedicated to them? Why is it that porn does nothing to stop tubes, in fact quite the opposite, sucks off the people who run them, when it has been demonstrated by the MPAA and RIAA that, unlike torrents and file lockers which are more obscure and trickier to deal with, piracy tubes need not exist at all?