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Originally Posted by jay23
for me DRM is dead at this point, we don't sell it any more and stopped working on it all most 2 years ago.
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exactly. even bill gates conceded that DRM war had been lost to the easy workarounds of the technology. i remember the video clip where Bill said that a DRM protected music file can be burned to CD, then sampled back to MP3, bypassing DRM for music.
For video, screen scraping, but M$ solution was to make Vista such that software couldn't hook into the video card's video stream, etc.
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Originally Posted by jay23
Build a strong following. Pay sites are alleyways concerned on getting a new user , never on keeping the existing users happy. the sites that has long retention does a good job of keeping the customer happy and brings this community feeling. Users want to keep supporting the site because they know that their money is funding the development of new content.
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double zactly.. this is where you take a page from solo girl sites (like ellinude.com or NaughtyAllie.com) where they provide interaction and good "customer service" that keeps members rebilling. Sure, someone can rip their videos and post up on a tube/torrent site, but once they do that, the content is stale, its missing additional interaction whether it be live cam sessions, personalized messages, etc.
as more and more sites create their own content, they can get their models on the hook to add additional value/content to the website that tube sites can't take.
cam sites and dating sites seem to be doing well in the face of tubes. I have seen cam sessions that get ripped and posted, so to some degree cam sites feel part of the problem, but the video file cannot replace the human interaction, so the cam biz still has its market.
Fight the customer is not always right, but he knows what he wants!