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For the record I do not condone the downloading and especially resharing of creators’ content, and I honestly hate seeing comments on here like “if I bought a DVD I own it for life” because Onlyfans is not like buying a DVD, it’s like buying a Netflix subscription. You can’t pay $14 one time and watch all four seasons of Stranger Things any time you want for the rest of your life. You are renting access to this content.
@MGReviews If I were to make an analogy... For years, it has now been possible to legally purchase a digital music album on various platforms such as iTunes, Qobuz, Amazon, etc. On average, the price of a full-length studio, live or compilation digital album varies from $5 to $20. Once downloaded, the files are the customers' to keep. Making the album requires much time and effort and can cost the artists and labels tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the material can be owned for personal use.
You may have noticed how almost all adult studio websites (Falcon Studios / Hot House, Men.com, SeanCody.com, BrokeStraightBoys / CollegeBoyPhysicals, Raw Alpha Males, Lucas Entertainment, TimTales, TIMFuck, Randy Blue, Bel Ami Online, Corbin Fisher, ASGmax [incl. Disruptive Films, NextDoor Studios and tons more], etc.) allow customers to download to keep. Many if not most consumers would not join if there were no download option. Piracy does occur (those vids may end up on pirate sites), but one always gets more with a subscription (ease of browsing, selection and access, highest quality available).
Besides, when you think of it, most paying members would not want to spend monthly dollars on a portal just to have everything or most everything be made available on illegal platforms for free! They'd rather the content remain exclusive to the paying customers. It's only a few who may choose to illegally distribute it—either because they make ad/affiliate money off their illegal platform or they just think they're doing porn fans a favour. I agree such distribution must be stopped, but I don't think that fans should be prevented from downloading.
And as I expressed above, downloading has its advantages:
1. Viewing the material offline. That can be practical if on a trip and there's no wi-fi, there's a power outage, the Internet connection is slow or interrupted, the website is down.
2. Viewing it on one's own media player. VLC has a great A–B loop option that allows to view a particular segment of a scene in a loop. Sometimes, a scene only has those 10 seconds or those two minutes I really want to get off to. I usually watch in full, and I then rewatch my favourite parts. Having the file, I can play it on a TV screen (incl. giant screens) via USB or else.
3. Retaining lifelong access. Besides, if it's a PPV, presale or custom purchase, downloading should definitely be made available.
And finally, if we're going to get that technical, even saving photos on those homemade portals may be "proscribed," not just videos.
Downloading some photos makes it much more easy and quick to access them rather than spending a lot of minutes trying to locate that photo that was posted four years ago or that other photo from that other model that was posted eight months ago, etc.
@Mickactual