[MRock]

Had a few more thoughts from this thread...

I am using a php script to sell zip files of music CDs. I use PayPal for processing. This same method can be used for clips, but who will process the money? Obviously someone will, C4S found one. I wonder if stormpay could be configured to work with the script? Or if they would allow it?

I know everyone hates DRM, but really, it is the simple solution for the individual clip sale that has been here for a long time. The parameters can be set to allow full use after purchase. I've always said that it should have been called "Digital Register Media" instead of Digital Rights Management. Weedshare had a slogan: "The cash register is in the file". They sold song singles with DRM, but you could burn to CD or transfer to mobile with no problem after purchase. They set the permissions on the DRM that way. Porn should be the same ... Then content producers could just hang the files where ever. It would be much easier than worrying about scripts and processors. How do you change the consumers view of DRM though ... quite the task. Don't use DRM to "protect" the content, use it for easier distribution. Thieves will steal no matter what protection method is used. C4S built its whole business on the fact that consumers don't like DRM. When I quit worrying about "protecting" my content, I started making a LOT more money.

As a side note ... Ifriends provides a drm service for free to all cam hosts. The site is pay2play and your username/pass for IF works there also. The fee for cam hosts is 0, nada, zilch. You get 100% of the money. Others wishing to use it pay a 5% fee per file sold. I rolled up last year and made a go of it with them, but alas, the money was not worth the effort. I did sell clips. I did make money. But the sales were mostly from IF customers. I did not get much from regular website distribution. Their DRM parameters are set the "old way" though. I wonder if it would have worked better the Weedshare way ...