Are Torrents Killing The Business?

[papagmp]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

It seems everyone agrees that there is some impact.

I guess what I am really asking is, "does the availability of a sponsor's content on a file sharing site affect your decision to promote them"?

Depends who's putting it there... Pirates or the sponsor. And how could you tell?

[spacemanspiff]

Either way EVERY site (tgps, link lists, tube sites, blogs, maybe even torrent sites) on the net that has free content has surfers that will never buy and EVERY site on the net has surfers that will.

I agree with this. It's always been that way. But when you go from a "teaser" model, to a model where you can get full length movies instead of just short clips, IMO you're tipping the scales quite a bit.

[ArtWilliams]

My thinking is headed in the direction that is might be better to promote say XxxMina for instance because her content is less likely to be on a torrent and she has less exposure then a BangBros or NaughtyAmerica which sadly you see pirated all the time.

---art

P.S. To XxxMina -- I signed up and you were on my blog Monday, 26 November 2007! (Yes, I REALLY do like your meaty pussy. ;>)

Originally Posted by papagmp

Depends who's putting it there... Pirates or the sponsor. And how could you tell?