Where do you see the adult industry in 5-10 years?

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Originally Posted by maxpower

For My Next Vacation Im Going To Euthenasia

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LOL

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Originally Posted by maxpower

maybe a few, but can you see a world with the bathroom at work filled with guys beating off to porn, or the parking lot 1/2 filled with guys spanking the monkey before they go back to work. I think porn is a more personal thing, and always will be, they have these cell phone sites already, but they really don’t do very good.

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Originally Posted by basschick

i don't believe there's any way to really know where porn will be in 5 - 10 years.

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Remember when people only watched porn in theatres? People thought no one would ever buy porn and watch it at home. VHS? Passing fad, nothing more.

Maybe I just can not see it, its not really the same thing, I think what ever way it goes people are going to have to have privacy to really want to look at porn :5ymca:

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Originally Posted by Lee

DRM is and, always has been over-rated.

The last 24 months many of the programs who embraced DRM technology at first and told the affiliate community that DRM protection was going to increase their sales have started to (or have completely) removed DRM from all of their content for the simple fact that, it was actually killing sales and rebills.

Yet, everyone proclaimed they were DRM experts when they started using it.

The problem is, DRM is still in its infancy and whilst there are a few companies who are using DRM to their advantage, the short term gains are okay but, the long term gains are pretty much non-existant.

Take a look at some of the larger review sites, any paysite that uses DRM protection on their content is scored much lower than sites that dont use DRM, why? Because surfers want to collect their porn and, they cant do that when DRM is in place.

Regards,

Lee

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We currently have everything DRM's on our sites and are now considering removing it. Customers hate it.

I the next 5 to 10 years, at least where the video industry is concerned, I don't think we'll be making DVD's anymore, it's all going to be downloadable on the web. Some studios have already started going in that direction and informing their brick and mortar retailers that the DVD's will no longer be available.

Bill

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Originally Posted by hdkbill

We currently have everything DRM's on our sites and are now considering removing it. Customers hate it.
Bill

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Perceptive comments, Bill. I wish more producers were equally listening to what their own customers say.

DRM products makes people feel like they are inherently criminals. And I don't see how you can build a business with that attitude of customer service. I recognize that intellectial property protection is important, but on the other hand you cannot treat your own customer base like they are criminals.

This is actually another area where "industry innovation" has some work to do over the next few years.

Speaking of future wishes: Microsoft's repeated operating system and product fumbles and flaws truly brings out the dinosaur that it has become, and home computer users start buying Macs.

Steve

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Originally Posted by desslock

Perceptive comments, Bill. I wish more producers were equally listening to what their own customers say.

DRM products makes people feel like they are inherently criminals. And I don't see how you can build a business with that attitude of customer service. I recognize that intellectial property protection is important, but on the other hand you cannot treat your own customer base like they are criminals.

This is actually another area where "industry innovation" has some work to do over the next few years.

Speaking of future wishes: Microsoft's repeated operating system and product fumbles and flaws truly brings out the dinosaur that it has become, and home computer users start buying Macs.

Steve

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Steve,

I agree with you the DRM makes our customers feel like criminals. When DRM first came out we thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread because we had had so many streams stolen and being passed around. We immediately jumped on the bandwagon and re-streamed everything encoding with DRM. Obvioulsy that task took literally hundreds and hundreds of hours.

Customers immediately began to complain and it has been a hassle every since. The problem, of course, is now we have to re-encode everything without the DRM and we want to place our name or logo or somehthing on each stream. So, now, we're talking about not only re-encoding, but also re-rendering each stream. The time involved to do this is enormous which is the only reason it hasn't been done at this point.

Another problem, of course, that you refer to are MAC user's. While they may constitute a small percentage of overall web users, it's still a percentage I don't want to throw away, which is exactly what we did when we DRM'd everything.

Oh well, hindsight is a beautiful thing.

Bill