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Originally Posted by Thinkingman278
Just wondering but is the site still worth joining?
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I've been a member of the site for years and I'm wondering if the owner has been getting less money over time since it gets hit with piracy pretty regularly, and by 'pretty regularly', I mean, within 24 hours of new releases.
I remember that 3rd-art used to produce 2+ videos per month, and now it's down to one per month, and releases usually go out up to 3-5 days after the 1st of each month.
It's definitely been in decline for a year. I remember people suggesting that they boycott the site until they get what they want, but if you do that, you'll kill the site for good.
This is just like, my opinion man, and it has been loaded with a lot of speculation, but I think that the owner thinks that the B.E. community doesn't want to actually pay for B.E.!
Even though it's probably amongst the higher quality stuff that this fetish has to offer. So instead of boycotting it, join up and email the owner that you'll stay on board, or to actually come out and speak to people more clearly about the state of their website in regard to its financial stability.
There is a support e-mail on the site that you can use to voice your concerns, even if you don't get a reply, I'm positive that the emails get read. Who knows, maybe the majority of their paying traffic prefers relatively vanilla scenes now.
I'm sorry to unload a bunch of guessing and speculation, but yeah. Piracy in the B.E. community is
r a m p a n t.
TL;DR:
Unfortunately no, the site is not worth joining for its B.E. content because it has become uncommon. You'll be waiting 3+ months at a time for that, usually with it broken up into segments each under 2 minutes. It's extremely cliffhangery and rationed out in general.
Send emails asking for more regular B.E. content or at least ask the guy to say, open up a twitter or something to get more in touch with the communtiy:
matrix@3rd-art.com