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Originally Posted by edgeprod
You raise some excellent points. I've often thought about cams not being able to be pirated .. wrote a white paper about it, didn't generate much interest at the time.
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Find it and post it, dude. I'm sure I missed quite a few points on why pirates aren't really the types of people that are going to ruin the cam industry with videos.
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Originally Posted by ITraffic
go to pornbb or planetsuzy there are dozens of threads hundreds of posts deep of pirated cam videos.
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Sure, but the question you have to ask yourself is whether or not these people are likely to be paying for cams if they couldn't get them for free. In the case of paysites, I think most people would be happy to shell out a few bucks in order to get access to a hot porn video if tubes didn't exist, but that's because paysites rarely offer anything that can't be replaced with a tube. I don't think cams have this issue, because it's not about the video, it's about the experience.
It's the difference between going to a concert or watching a recording of it done on an iPhone. The latter might be interesting to some, but we all know that you can't beat the real thing. Same applies to cams. Those who are going to pay for the experience are not going to have that experienced replaced by webcams.
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Originally Posted by adultmobile
My job is director of cam sites since 2004 and I can tell most of the cash in cam sites I administered it always been made with girls mostly clothed talking about how it was their day. Hour long per-minute paid private chats, where they talk about having seen certain movie or book, how's their pet, or else "what's new" stuff.
Customers and perhaps affiliates, have no idea what's going on in longest private chats with the whales, and they assume it is hours of masturbation, but that's rarely the case. If cam sites billed only the minutes of sex, giving back the money paid for clothed chat minutes, the 80% of revenue would be lost. Note that this was the same back in 2004 and years before MFC was popular at all, this is a constant in human nature.
What MFC done it is to open this reality to the public, removing the private/pay gates, so everyone seen what really it happens in those paid private: lots of clothed blah blah, paid per minute by "boyfriends". Since it is opened and public, now these boyfriends send massive tips.
There's even who counter-tips to keep a girl clothed, I mean, a fan will offer to match every tip anyone sends to the girl, so that the girl does not do what these guys asked her to do. Guy1 tips $10 to see her tits, the fan tips $10 for her to keep clothed, guy2 tips $20 to see these damn tits, the fan tips $20 more for her to keep clothed, and so on.
That's quite a nice way to do cash for a cam site, and the girl have to do absolutely nothing but smile clothed on cam  |
I think one of the most interesting elements of MFC is that there are some girls on there who are
always clothed. They will literally never get naked on cam - they might tease a little, sure. But the sex element on their streams are completely non-existent. Now those girls are real smart cookies.