Originally Posted by Robbie

All these theories.
All this talk about "what if".
Shap talking about top tier sites.

Reality...I did something and my little paysite is kicking ass. All the "top tier" sites that I promote? Nada. They used to do real well. Can't make sales with them now no matter what I do or how much traffic I send.

Reality is that these days, a lot of surfers use me and my fellow TGP/Free Site brethren as a guide. They check out the hosted galleries. Click on the tours. And then they go search the torrent sites for the full members areas that are sitting there waiting for them for free.

I see this from the traffic side and the paysite side. For me it irrefutable. I moved to encrypted streaming only and the results have been a turnaround in both sales and retention.

You can say whatever you want. But NOBODY is happy when they pay good money for something that is available for free. And yes, I understand the nervousness of a site making millions of dollars in rebills about changing ANYTHING.

It's the kind of decision that would scare the shit out of anybody.

It scared me with my little operation, I know it would scare me even more if I were 100 times bigger.

But in the end, when I saw my latest update that I wrote, shot, edited, and updated myself out on the torrents within hours of it going up in my members area...I realized I had to do something.

I did, it worked for me.

Free wins everytime over not free. You can keep shooting as fast as you can and it will still beat you. The key is to stop your stuff from being taken.

Encrypted streaming is completely transparent to the user. No different to their experience than watching any streaming vid. I use h264 encoded .mp4's and I can stream a 500 mb file INSTANTLY. And the user can move forward and backward anywhere in the scene.

It's a very nice experience for viewing porn without giving it away for them to upload to a torrent or tube. And if your stuff is really good, and I define "good" as giving YOUR members exactly what they want...they will rebill better than before.

Why? Because they no longer feel cheated by paying you to be a member when everybody else is getting it for free.

This is not a theory or a guess. My words are based on my experience and what I did and the results I have seen. Encrypted streaming and hiring removeyourcontent.com has worked very effectively.

Now if only the economy would stop crashing down around us...