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Old 07-12-2016, 04:16 PM  
Bladewire
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Originally Posted by dgraves View Post
This pretty much sums it up. Why would anyone buy porn from a paysite when surfers can get it the same day or worst case the next day from a file locker? It's the original quality video and they may have to wait a little longer for the download but they don't care. These type of people have more time than money.

I use to see my latest content on file lockers a few days after they were posted on my site, now they appear within hours.

Yes, they are still paying for porn but now they have access to thousands of full HD videos
for half the price of the standard paysite price.

It's a business model for the file locker uploaders and even though they make peanuts of each download, it's still money. They get the porn they like and they can also resell it as a file locker affiliate. I think there's a small percentage of paysite members that are doing this but it's still damaging because one member downloads from the paysite, then uploads to the file locker. Other thieves then download that file and re-upload it under their own account so basically thieves are stealing from thieves and compounding the problem. They can all make money off it while getting their own porn fix.

The theft has to stop before anything will improve. I hate hearing people say "adapt or die" because no one says that with any other crime. Can you imagine having your house broken into and all your stuff stolen and the cop says "Hey, adapt or die".

We all know file lockers and tubes aren't going anywhere unless laws are changed so in the mean time paysite owners can use services that minimize the theft by catching the members who steal and share. I've been researching software that embeds a code with a user's info into each video that can't be removed or is at least extremely difficult to remove. I've been working on my own solution but also found a company that looks promising called Xvid AutoGraph

It's a different approach to DRM and instead of punishing the majority who are honest, this approach focuses on catching the minority who steal. Thieves for the most part are lazy and will go for low hanging fruit so if it's too much work to steal content without getting caught they will move on to an easier target.
He was at Ynot Europe last year. He arbitrated and won the xvid.com domain, xvideos.com better watch out

His technology seems great, I'm not sure why it's never really taken off.

Unfortunately wack a mole is still present with this technology. Knowing the member that downloads and uploads is easy if you're on your game. Remember that it's a criminal organization and they have multiple paying "subscribers" to your site, when you kill one that you find, another takes over.

Once you learn their pattern, you then manipulate what they see/get in an undetectable manner, and they are playing wack a mole trying to get the real goods. In the end it's not worth the effort and they move on to easier fruit to pick.
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