laughinggaszone
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It is, but sooner or later the community needs to adapt rather than just continuing to demonize those who frequent tube sites, as if a large majority of this board isn't guilty of the same thing. I myself used to sink lots of money into C4S, but it no longer makes sense to frequently buy clips at $10-$15 a pop, when it'll be elsewhere for free in a few days or a week. You can flame me for that, but I'm just being honest, and I'm far from the only one.
Not to say that producers shouldn't keep going after those distributing material illegally. But it's a game of whack-a-mole that can never be fully won, and eventually we have to look to other industries (movies, music, etc) to see how they curbed piracy. The formula there has always been the same: make content accessible and cheap, and people will pay for it. Which is why subscription services like Spotify, Apple Music, Netflix, Hulu, Prime, etc are all thriving.
Would the same thing not work in our community? I'm not talking about individual membership sites, which still miss the mark. They're too pricey to buy more than one or two subs, and people can still download your videos and re-upload them elsewhere. But what about a C4S-style site that for ~$15 a month, I can access and stream clips from any stores? If a few of the top producers worked together on an initiative like that, I think you'd see a lot of subscribers...and without being able to download the MP4s, a lot less piracy.
I know that's a lot easier said than done, but it's not 2007 anymore, and I don't think the C4S model works today. Very few people are willing to drop $35 for half an hour of content when they can go to Pornhub and find the same videos for free. We can "tssk tssk" at that all we want, but if we really want to stop it, we have to create incentive for buying clips again.
First of all, you're contradicting yourself. You say that we need to stop demonizing those who use tube sites and then say we should still go after them. You can't have it both ways. We can't condone and condemn. Second, we've had this discussion before. There are flat pay streaming sites. Both for individual producers and large group sites. You know what, they get pirated as well. Even though they are cheap in comparison to the price of paying for downloading a full clip. Which brings us to the final point. It's an apples and oranges comparison to look at Hollywood or the music industry when it comes to tickle porn. We area niche industry with a very small pool of customers. The prices charged are necessary to pay for the production of the clips and hopefully make a modest profit. There is no tickle fetish producer that is rolling in money. We are all basically a cottage industry and you either support your local tickle producer or you wave goodbye. There will be no "Big Tickle" coming in and taking our place.