Originally Posted by adendreams

I hate pirates.
I spend hours per day seeking out my shit and sending take-down notices. I even have battles with pirates trying to take their domain names. Fuckheads are rabid with my content.

I actually started winning in the last few months, I got so much shit taken down that I have tipped the scales and I'm actually getting the drop on these fuckers the same day they post my shit. (I also have help of a good anti-piracy firm)

Anyway it's when I started winning that I started noticing something surprising - I'm making a lot of money from the pirate traffic. The pirates that don't take the effort to cut off my watermarks are sending me a SHIT LOAD of traffic (type-ins). So what does this mean? Should I continue to wipe them all out or let some of them run with my shit and send me joins...where is the tipping point? How do you find it?

The answer was right there in my stats - once you get the piracy down to a manageable level you can see quite clearly the fluctuations of your type in traffic. One pirate link sent my traffic to a higher level than its ever been - fucking Reddit is HUGE and its all pirate motherfuckers and I hate them - but goddamn they are making money.

Moral of the story - battle them hard - then watch them and watch the flow of your type ins carefully (of course this wont apply to many of you) But if you can strike a balance and allow some of the guys (who dont remove watermarks) to run with your content - big gains can be realized.

Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

Though you aren't contradicting yourself completely, I couldn't help but reflect back on what you said here.

https://gfy.com/showthread.php?t=1111398

Content gets pirated, especially if it's good content, which is what you have. Free advertisement its far over weighed by the damages of piracy however.

Originally Posted by adendreams

Does anyone know http://trafficfactory.biz/ or how I can get them to STOP STEALING MY SHIT

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Originally Posted by adendreams

Complaining about the ratios from a site that was selling 15 years ago....

Tired of hearing about piracy hurting aff's that previously made fast easy money sending internet surfers to a variety of scam or near-scam sites and programs (AVS? nothing beats looking through 3000 websites that have only garbage..but HEY you got access to 3000 sites!) Dialers! Cool lets rip off as many people as we can! Pre-checked X-sales great! Lets scare off guys from ever taking out another credit card for porn - but we made 60 bucks off the sucker! Membership site with only a small amount of crap in it - but Hey just LOOk at the GREAT TOUR!

Piracy is not to blame. Tubes are not to blame. You are to blame and only you.

Originally Posted by adendreams

Key Phrase:
"The pirates that don't take the effort to cut off my watermarks are sending me a SHIT LOAD of traffic"

Originally Posted by L-Pink

The last thing anyone needs to do is criticize a photographer who has his work product STOLEN. His time, his money, his hard work, his pride in creating something ripped off by opportunistic assholes.

Originally Posted by L-Pink

The last thing anyone needs to do is criticize a photographer who has his work product STOLEN. His time, his money, his hard work, his pride in creating something ripped off by opportunistic assholes.

It really is to bad you can't hang content thieves like horse thieves were.

Originally Posted by L-Pink

The last thing anyone needs to do is criticize a photographer who has his work product STOLEN. His time, his money, his hard work, his pride in creating something ripped off by opportunistic assholes.

It really is to bad you can't hang content thieves like horse thieves were.

Originally Posted by shoot twice

Of course I agree with you

But there's one more part of this problem most people over look. That's even if you're able to keep your content from being produced the current business environment is such that vast majority of Consumers just say "Fuck It... I'll watch something else that's Free or I can download."