Thanks to Hex!t for taking the time to lay his thoughts fully above... and for making my often elongated posts look positively slimline in comparison!
I don't feel so bad on that score now!
For me, what he says has some merit but, if I may say so, seems a little too pat and self-serving as regards 'freeloading' recorders as a whole. (I don't agree with the FL term generally btw, there are obviously varying degrees of freeloading.)
I've a feeling that the pervcam situation is quite a bit more nauced than Hex!t proffers and would query some of his dating and emphasis on the security changes* but, all the same, I could not provide any more credible theory of my own overall either.
There's no doubt that some babes have sabotaged other girls' more commendable efforts with their scamming though. The channels it seems have learnt virtually nothing about
pissing on their own doorstep over the years. VFM has been eroded from the top end services at BS (as if there was always some resistance to persuing them fairly in the first place) and this has had a drip down effect on everything around them as the all encompassing pursuit of the cams is now killing the appeal of the core product.
Having said that, Hex!t lets us guys' more dodgy practises off the hook too easy for me. There is a sense of entitlement on both sides. Punters express it all the time. The guys side is mitigated a little by that entitlement being bolstered by what we were given by the channels prior to 2011. The entitlement on the babes side is propagated by, a now far too prominent, outright greed and pampered diva-ish behaviours. This has become more apparent or more normalised over time.
For me it comes down to this, last year at BS the balance between cam and core was better - and Cellcast remained in profit (more than 20% better than in 2015). This year they say they have more cam revenue but yet they are now making a loss. They say the core business continues to decline...
I'd ask two simple questions of BS:
Are your strategies now encouraging that decline?
How will your cam business fare if it relies on a terminally crippled TV service?
...Because If you listen real close I think you can hear the sound of the baby being thrown out with the bathwater.
* I'd put it like this: If, running to form, big business saw the infrigements only in terms of lost revenue that would quickly be converted into paying custom, does this conversion show in the recent balance books? Or were the offenders, as Hex!t speculates, largely disaffected punters who saw little VFM in their previous paid camming and simply stopped altogether when their hacking was scuppered?