DRM is a waste of time and money. DRM companies are professional money wasters and even they will privately admit that you don't need their service.

It doesn't do any of the things that it's supposed to do... (like protect your content from being pirated) and it does things you don't want it to do (like preventing your paying customers from viewing your content).

DRM doesn't work and it never did. It never will.

I remember sitting in a seminar a few years ago with a guy telling the audience that they would all go to jail for providing porn to minors if they didn't use his service. He admitted to me later that it was something that he just came up with as a scare tactic.. even HE knew it was bullshit.

When all the big sites like Sean Cody, Corbin Fisher, Fratmen, Jake Cruise and Randy Blue were all using DRM, our content was ALL over the torrents and file sharing sites. Using DRM didn't slow the pirates at all.

But the number one reason people gave me for leaving our site was that they couldn't get our movies to play. The number one reason for people calling up and asking for refunds was that the DRM conflicted with their Firewall or their security settings.

I'm not saying not to worry about those but I will say that the people who steal your content probably weren't going to pay for it anyway. If your site consistently turns out good content and your site is worth joining, people will join your site.

When we dropped DRM our membership went up. Noticeably. But I don't see any more or less on the file sharing networks or torrents.

I know how annoying it is to see your stuff get stolen but all I can say is that if you want your site to make money, you need to spend less time and energy fighting people who dont' want to pay for your content and spend more time and energy catering to the people who DO.