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Robbie,
although I do not expect that I can in anyway influence your thoughts on this, I do think I need to at least comment on a few things you have written.
There are tubes which I am sure do what you describe, ie actively stealing content and uploading it themself. However, our tubes, do not do this but I do not expect you to believe me.
There are roughly 10 other tubes which are around our size (thousands that are smaller) which use a similar model to ours. If we would turn off our tubes, nothing will change since the others will simply pickup our traffic and you start back at zero.
If we do changes to them as I have said we will, we might get others to follow, either way, our traffic can be used well by companies in our industry already today and it will likely be even better once we are done with all planned changes.
You say people have to protect their content, it hurts reviews on review sites, and such things. People can not make sure their content is not put up for free anywhere, its too difficult to fight and thus nobody can make any money anymore.
You do realize that we operate two of the biggest paysite networks in this industry, releasing multiple exclusive scenes each single day. Just because we run multiple tube sites does not mean we do not face the same problems everyone else faces with free content. On the contrary, our scenes are very popular, we release DVDs which adds another layer of attack next to online content, and we have to send out DMCA notices constantly.
The business is changing, we decided to go the route its been taking in every industry, not only ours, that has to do with digital media, instead of sticking our head in the sand and complaining that DMCA exists. It simply does, and until its changed we need to live with it.
In terms of Walmart, although I agree that Varius' analogy does not fit perfectly, neither does yours (for the reasons I explained above).
But, please get more informed about Walmart's business practices, as well as those of rival mega-retail chains like the Metro Group. When they open a store in a city, they do not just open a really big store, they also FORCE major brands to sell them their products for dirt cheap so they can resell them for dirt cheap too, undercutting everyone else in the market and dumping the products below dealer prices. Of course they do not steal products from other stores and then give them away for free, but neither do we...
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