The revenue is ridiculously low, for the assertion that consumers would rather watch streams of video (VOD), tiny, grainy, stop-and-start, jerky video one-time, than have a tangible DVD in hand.

My tangible DVD sales typically outpace the combined total of all of my VOD providers.

I sell my DVDs In Sleeve for $6.99 plus post. The same 70-minute VOD would cost the consumer $5.60-$7.00 to view on-line, depending on the size of the pre-paid block of time they purchased, and at what discount.

Of course, the cherry-pickers would watch less than $.25 of the movie, by constantly fast-forwarding and rewinding. We video editors know that concept as "scrubbing," which is different from the scrubbing that payment processors do by cleaning out the customers and credit cards that have been used in chargebacks and frauds.

It is going to be interesting to see how many studios drop off the map because they don't have docs, or don't want to provide.

And, if other VOD portals will follow suit. (I'm kind of thinking: Not!). But if they do, will web masters be required to (hold docs), next.

While it is OK to redact (magic marker out) the info on an ID that is not the performer's name and DOB, the sheer fact that a performer's real name, associated with his stage name, is in someone else's hands, is the real risk factor. I have nude models in my catalog that have been actors in movies such as "Super Bad" and "Vampire Boys.", regional and national TV ad campaigns, and several MTV reality game shows.

Until Edward Snowden gets a lead role in a porn, I'm kind of leaning towards "big risk".