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Originally Posted by Femjoy Michael
Great thread op. Lots of insightful comments.
Barefootsies has it right: you must observe your member behavior. Disabling downloads will work for some, and will not work for others.
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Exactly right.
I am not saying my way is the ONLY way. I am saying for me, this is what I am comfortable with after doing some research. We wanted to see how much of the 1000 videos people were actually watching and if this was giving away too much for $29.95 or whatever the price point was at that time. After seeing that most barely watched 30% of the videos, and the vast majority preferred to steam versus download and watch the same scenes over and over, we changed up our business model.
With mainstream porn, it could be something completely different in the mentality of the user. As I said, if someone complained we would just refund them. However, we made it as difficult as possible for anyone who thought they were going to buy a one month membership, site rip our whole website, and then either cancel or chargeback. This tends to frustrate those folk to the point they just give up. As before, a standard porn patron I prefer to cater too does not exhibit this sort of behavior trying to download everything with site rippers, etc..
Even if it were 1 in 50 or 1 in 10 who complain about it, I would not change because of that. It would have to be closer to 50% for me to go back to a standard wide open website where they can take tens of thousands of dollars in content for $29.95.