Originally posted by basschick
reading this really made me think. i promote sites with 100% NON exclusive content that retain quite well. you can find the content on newsgroups, p2p, and free sites, but the members still stay. what would make sean cody different from those sites? why would it retain that much worse?

how often do they add brand new stuff? if it's brand new, no one will have seen it yet on p2p.
what sets seancody apart from the instances you mentioned, in my opinion, is that there is a culture of seancody piracy.

It's not just that their stuff is available on the p2ps.

It's that people know their stuff is available there. people are dedicated to and make a regular habit of getting stuff off of there. as soon as an update comes out on their website, it's available on the p2ps within literally a matter of hours. it's available en masse within days.

it's not just randomly coming across seancody on the p2ps. It's what could be described as a movement of people actively engaged in an exclusive and particular p2p trade of their content.