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Originally Posted by GUNNER
the damage is being done daily and it's irreversible.
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I'm not so sure about the irreversible part.
Think about it....content that is even a couple of months old on the net is kinda "dead" for sales anyway.
So if and when something happens to put a stop to it, I'd say within 4 to 5 months this business would be totally resurrected. I'm sure a lot of experts will say I'm wrong. But in my opinion, and from my experiences...that is what I think would happen.
In the case of tubes... the recovery would begin almost immediately. For torrents it would take a little longer because of the mass spread of full site rips that are now downloaded on millions of hard drives.
But even then...look at what would happen: Let's say a guy has the entire OC Cash library of sites sitting on his hard drive from where he downloaded them from a torrent.
That's all he'll ever need ever again...right? No. OC Cash will put up new updates with new stuff that he can't see. And eventually, a few months down the line there will be enough new stuff to make him feel like he's missing out.
I know this because I protect my content and shut that shit down a few months ago. So now only our old scenes can be found (at least until removeyourcontent gets them yanked too). After a couple of months our sales picked back up because people could see the new trailers for all the new scenes and then could not find them for free. So they started buying memberships again.
Since the majority of the program owners out there didn't believe you could protect your content without pissing the members off, they are now hurting bad. But I have seen the results and I know that once something happens to shut down piracy it will happen for everyone else too.
Or to make it simpler...everybody could quit getting pissed about it and just start protecting their content. Problem solved.