sadly, in my experience, this is not true.. depending on the niche and the avalibility of quality movies in the niche people will share them with their friends or make them available on torrent sites etc.. And its not just people who access your site using a stolen password that will do this, regular members will do so.. perhaps not right away but when their membership has been expired for some time etc they will..
DRM has helped increase retention for some big sites in some of the fetish niches, i have been going over the numbers with a friend of mine who works for a big fetish site, and their retention is way way better since they introduced DRM.. their movies are locked after membership expires..
There are ofcourse tech issued, the loss of mac users and general hate towards DRM from the surfers side, but their numbers shows me that the extra retention outweighs the lose they suffer from the hate and tech issues etc..
I am not saying that DRM is the way to go as its a bitch to get to work on some computer etc but if you have a small niche and have quality movies, its worth thinking about and testing the waters for sure..
If anyone needs a good DRM provider let me know and i can "spam" on in this thread..
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