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The webmaster part of me thinks:
When you buy a paysite membership now, you get access to possibly years worth of updates plus 4 weeks of future updates. This is a damn good deal the first month. It's the equivalent of buying this month's issue of Playboy, and them also throwing in the last 24 months issues.
The surfer part of me thinks:
I've always been able to save stuff, and put it into my porn collection. $30 a month to look at porn is quite a bit as it is since there's so much free stuff out there already. So taking my ability to save things away makes that $30 seem even more outrageous. Lower the average paysite price to $10/mo, and I'd go for it.
Here are some other things...
What if I buy the membership on the crappy computer in my living room (and the license is issued to that computer), but then want to watch the videos on the good computer in another room?
What if I save a video to my computer, and go to watch it later. But I'm not connected to the internet. Does this mean the DRM can't be verified? If not, suppose someone else in the house is using the phone line and I can't log on.
Suppose I'm going on a trip for a week, and want to stick some of these videos on a laptop. I can't watch them, can I?
I'd also like to add that if keeping surfers from saving content was such a big issue, then how come paysites have never implemented certain scripts to prevent this? You can't keep a computer educated surfer from saving, but you can certainly keep the average surfer from doing so with some very simple scripts.
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