Its That Time Of Year Again... Where Are We Headed As An Industry?

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Originally Posted by WebBilling.com

Evil Chris from teen revenue and Xnations wrote a nice call-to-action piece directly addressing this issue - published in the December Xbiz World It starts on Page 14 and concludes on Page 96.

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Good read, unfortunately though, the people who NEED to read that never will and if they do, they will argue that the facts he stated about less being more are wrong because they dont know any different than giving away the horse, the cart AND the farm.

I recently said on GWW that 3 minute preview clips were not needed and was ridiculed by many across a wide range of boards.

Unfortunately, newbies who entered the industry in the last 4-5 years dont realize that what 'we' used to do was 'work' for our sponsor payouts, not just put some links up to FHGs, hosted free sites, rss feeds and wait for the money to roll in, they dont realize that if they actually worked for the money their affiliate programs paid them they would be making 3 or 4 times what they are now... They equate flooding the web with more free content, longer clips, HD pics, etc, to more free sales.

Regards,

Lee

I read that article as well and agree with him fully. We can't sell the farm if you give everything in the barn away for free!
There are ways to use the Tube sites to our advantage, but a fine line between teasing and over sharing must be walked in order to make it a profitable venture. We aren't going to get RID of the tube sites so why not utilize them, with moderated restraint, to our advantage?

I'd rather see a unilateral effort to farm IP addresses of torrent users via protected clips that have been downloaded.

This way we can block their IP's from our paysites across the board by sharing, and updating, that database. We can then use access to our sites as leverage for them to stop frequenting torrent sites.