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Originally Posted by Robbie
One thing is for sure, no matter what anybody says...people on Pirate Bay are not going to buy memberships to pay sites...
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I don't know about photo/video sites as I don't run one since 2004. But I can tell you for sure the pirate guys buy on cam sites, no less than legal traffic sources.
As part of my normal job I buy traffic in every network and broker, simply as "us, ca, au" or "hq countries", from "all network" or so. Then when I get paid signups, I go check the http referer to identify the sites they come from, just so I will target these specifically in next campaign with a "whitelist domains", to spend my cash better. And here I get always some "full dvdrip" site (some I posted in this thread, but is so many more).
I can certify that some guy from those "ful dvdrip on filelocker" site (common in adult ad network), and from torrent site (rare to get via adult ad network) spend $100's if not $1000's with time, no jokes. From countries such as USA, Australia, for example. I can even tell their age as they write it in the register form optional info
Then as an advertising buyer, to be a good guy, I should blacklist from control panel of traffic broker, those pirate domain names despite make me sales... Ok I can do it since my budget ends before I buy all the legal sites traffic available, is easy. But, if I had a million+ dollar budget a mo like those "big" sites, how not to consider pirate traffic, simply as the return of investment it can be good? Make it danger to buy, or people will simply buy.
On a side note, I check also where our affiliates (of tubecamgirl program) send the traffic from, and, some are buying from those URL redirect/mask services, or image screencaps hosting, which are 90% handling pirate traffic, complementary to the full dvdrip which must be "link masked" and "preview screencapped". These affiliates invest own money to send me traffic, shuld I tell them they're bad guys.