What changed in 2006?

[Jel]

Originally Posted by Allfetish

Yes, exactly. P2p is much harder for people than these rapidshare places. I work forums sometimes and I see it. People who get the full movies don't even want the movie clips or galleries. To them they are almost worthless. They expect to get full movies, for free. And it is out there availible to them. Worse yet a lot of these places effectively advertise for places like rapidshare making them BIGGER. They charge $10 a month or so and these forums send them the customers left and right even putting it in their rules that people must post using these sites.

I'm surprised to not see some of the major sponsors going after these guys. If you hit three sites Rapidshare.de, rapidshare.com, and megaupload.com. You could create a major impact. If it isn't stopped, it will just get worse. The first time a surfer gets a full length movie from one of these places and then sees there are thousands more, it is all over. He isn't buying ever again unless you get him on some major rare fetish or such where there is no free full movie content.

The full movie content ( 50 MB - 300 MB) out there could easily mean the end of free sites and tgps....and maybe eventually the paysite. It should not be underestimated.

Agreed. Rapidshare is actually being chased by Germany's version of RIAA : http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?s...37230&from=rss (details here: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/83948 )

Fingers crossed