I'll state for the record that this is my first post here. Ever. So considering that, you ought to understand this is a pretty good topic. So. Denni, allow me to make some very valid points. 1) I remember when you and your companions used to refer to yourselves as "amateurs". $50,000 per year to do pornography, while not the largest sum of money paid to such performers, is still a lot more money than a lot of people earn in a year doing a LOT harder work than you ladies perform. As a professional accountant, also, I certainly hope you're all paying your taxes like good citizens. Nevertheless, the point is, I don't know if you've revised your site since the last time I visited it a couple years ago... but if not, you may wish to rethink your claims that you and your friends are amateurs. It sounds like you're making a comfortable living doing this, and you do not do something else as your main job. That makes porn your main job, and means you are no longer amateurs. False advertising? Probably. But I'm an accountant, not a lawyer. 2) You will never stop the free distribution of digital media. Ever. Welcome to the internet, baby, where people transfer data like they breathe oxygen. Let's say you manage to make it so that every website on the net (somehow) can't upload or download your videos. Let's further say you somehow make it to where file transfer sites (such as kazaa or whatever is used these days - I stopped using them when they became full of viruses and spyware) are the same way, no Dennio files ever. What about transferring files over IM software, or emails? How do you think you'd stop that? Or what about if I put your videos on a flash drive and hand that flash drive out to all my buddies, who then make copies and pass it out to all of their buddies, infinitely? You can't stop it. You can't even slow it down. 3) Free distribution of your content actually serves in your best interest, and here's why. Ready? This is a quick economics lesson. There's a lot of super-hardcore porn out there now, things like fisting and prolapsing and all of that good stuff. The things you and your gals helped to pioneer online are now widespread and almost mainstream. This is what economic professionals call "competition". In a competitive marketplace, prices (or, overall income from sales) tends to drop. This is what we call "supply and demand". There's a large supply, so the demand is low. This forces everyone who is competing to either A) Lower their prices, or Offer a superior product. If your sales are slipping, darling, and you're that worried about your bottom line, then you should consider... "Why are people not subscribing to my site, and instead getting all of their needs met for free?" It's probably because either A) Your prices are too high for the quality of product you offer, or, Your product quality is not high enough overall. By taking advantage of the FREE ADVERTISING given to you by the free distribution of your content, you may very well draw in new members who otherwise would have looked at your previews, looked at your price, and said "Wow, it's a bunch of.. uh, old and well-used ladies who have gravelly smoker voices. Well damn. I can always go to FTV Girls or Fisting Lessons or Bubdzia or Layla Extreme and see perky, toned-bodied young women for the same monthly fee doing the same kinds of extreme sex. I think I'll go do that." But if they see a few videos here, it might pique their interest to want to log in and download the full collection to see what you've got. Will having your videos here potentially cause people who would pay for your site to not pay for it and instead get your videos free? Sure. But as I discussed in point #2, that's going to happen anyway whether you like it or not. So you may as well embrace it and hope for some new members. 4) Coming onto the forum, getting all videos previously posted banned, and then putting up three incredibly small videos is absolutely not going to help your cause. It will not earn you new members. In fact, all it does is encourage people to avoid you and avoid your site. I think it's admirable that the website staff here will comply with your wishes, and I think they should. BUT, I don't think you should have those wishes to begin with. Your product, as mentioned by another member, is a niche market. You have a very limited community who hold an interest in what your site offers. By alienating a large group of them (and believe me, this site is probably visited by a big percentage of your target audience), you run the risk of those group telling their friends who are in the same community, and before you know it your membership goes through the floor and you ladies are filling out applications at McDonalds. 5) People aren't distributing your movies because they hate you and want you to suffer. They do it because they like what they see and want to share it with others. If anything you should be flattered that your content is even worth sharing on here, there are many people who've been fisted and stretched and so forth that I've seen on the net who have never been posted at this website, because people see their videos and shrug their shoulders and move on. That in itself should be a testament to the success of your site, and you should be happy that people love your content so much. I leave you with this conclusion... The best move you could make to boom sales on your site is to lift your ban on videos from your site, and then make a separate "membership signup" page for your website and post it here. That membership signup page should give members of this site a 10% discount to your site as members, and, in order to get the "password" to sign up for the 10% off membership, they need to send you a private message on this site which you respond to. Thus? Your "freely distributed" videos generate interest in your site, and your willingness to share them shows goodwill, and the added incentive of a small discount will lure lots of new members to your site to check out your full library of content. Or, in the alternative, you can keep going down the path you're going, and end up putting yourself out of business due to bad publicity.
