say you have a really cute neighbour you've admired from afar, but found out she's got an onlyfans account, you going to look or are you going to go back to the free stuff?
It doesn't matter if there is a way or not - people can, have, and absolutely 100% WILL get around it, and they'll double their efforts the moment they find out you tried to stop them. Streisand/Beyonce effect
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If you put it on the internet, be prepared for the fact that it is very likely anyone you ever have or will ever know may one day see it. Including your parents, partners, and children
the thing with stuff like this, regardless of what the content of the content actually is, the vast majority of digital content piracy is from people who wouldnt have been willing to pay money for the product in the first place, however very basic anti-piracy functionality like what netflix has, where if anything that draws any kind of capture of the screen be it a screenshot program or a screen recorded itll make the stuff you are watching black, stuff that isnt trying to act like its perfect, stuff thats just enough of a barrier to be annoying. That'll likely put enough incentive for people to not actually spread pirated versions of it that arent folk that are doing it as part of their identity as a person. It also increases the amount of people that will be buying it simply by lowering the amount of people that "steal" the content.
It's the same principle as putting a lock on something in a moderately accessible to the public space. The lock isnt there to actually stop someone motivated and determined to steal your shit. It's there to stop the vast majority of the rest of people that see the lock and keep going. it's there to stop the people that would be willing to steal it or in this case pirate it if it took no effort or thought but arent willing to put literally even the tiniest bit of effort into it. That's the vast majority of people that give a shit enough about sharing content to people looking for pirated stuff especially in cases like onlyfans where the person had to pay money to get in rather than the physical item like a bike where its an opportunity to take something at no cost to yourself rather than an opportunity to pay money to give other people free stuff taht would have cost them money.
“the vast majority of digital content piracy is from people who wouldnt have been willing to pay money for the product in the first place” ..... “It also increases the amount of people that will be buying it simply by lowering the amount of people that "steal" the content.” .... isn’t this an obvious contradiction?
its not a contradiction. It would be a contradiction if it said "there is no one that pirates that would be willing to pay if the only way to pirate was to put in a moderate amount of effort."
the entire point of the whole shebang in the first common that i wrote is that its only the majority, its not 100% of people that pirate. These kinds of measures put those "potential customers that are the minority" into a situation of "pay or not access without putting in effort."
Another analogy to put it up against, its like the extreme vast majority of political campaigning. basically none of their effort is going towards changing the actions of people who are going to do a given thing no matter what you do, its going to change the acts of the extreme minority that doesn't have a per-determined action, in the case of political campaigning its getting inbetweeners and anyone that isnt a hardline democat or republican that always votes party loyalty.
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If you put it on the internet, be prepared for the fact that it is very likely anyone you ever have or will ever know may one day see it. Including your parents, partners, and children
the entire point of the whole shebang in the first common that i wrote is that its only the majority, its not 100% of people that pirate. These kinds of measures put those "potential customers that are the minority" into a situation of "pay or not access without putting in effort."
Another analogy to put it up against, its like the extreme vast majority of political campaigning. basically none of their effort is going towards changing the actions of people who are going to do a given thing no matter what you do, its going to change the acts of the extreme minority that doesn't have a per-determined action, in the case of political campaigning its getting inbetweeners and anyone that isnt a hardline democat or republican that always votes party loyalty.