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exotics4me (0)
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I think it's worse to remove an old one. I don't know how many hours I've spent searching sites for that one favorite scene I accidentally deleted. Also is frustrating if you're a collector since a model doesn't always jump out at you as one you want to collect, but those are the ones I store in my brain for future reference. I eventually decide to collect the model, remember that Site X had several videos/photos of her, go back and they're gone.
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05-25-15 02:35am
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LPee23 (0)
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I agree with exotics4me. No matter how old, removing old shoots risks upsetting some customers, and it can even risk damaging a site's brand.
Maybe it's human psychology, but when I visit a site to find that some old content I was hoping to download was removed, that always overshadows whatever new content they produced.
People will always be looking for the older content for many reasons. Maybe they want to collect all archived material of their favorite models. Maybe they want to collect archived material within a favorite niche. There will always be hard drive crashes and people trying to rebuild their collections. People also tend to compare notes about sites and favorite scenes on forums. There are even sites like data18.com that catalog all of the scenes released by major paysites and the models featured and make a note of which ones have been removed (see their listing of PSP for an example).
The bottom line is, when a customer goes looking for a scene from lets say 2001, he or she is not there for the resolution, but because there was something special about that scene. There will always be people looking for older scenes like this, and it will always be a let down whenever they are removed.
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05-25-15 07:07am
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Drooler (Disabled)
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I agree with the two PUer's above. At first I thought that it depends on the shoot, but that would complicate the question unnecessarily.
When I want to revive an old shoot, I don't want to sign up (pay) and then look for what's not there.
Accident deletion is just one reason. Hard drive failure is another. And yet another is upgrading -- getting that higher quality scene now that your hardware is asking for it.
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05-26-15 03:11pm
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pat362 (0)
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I agree with everybody else. I'm sure there are plenty of old shoots that should be removed if for no other reason than they are horrible looking now but I maintain that they should still be kept active simply for historic purposes and nostalgic purposes
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05-26-15 05:46pm
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skippy (0)
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I'm on the fence about this one for two reasons.
Many of you remember Savannah. Those who don't should look her up. She was an amazing porn star that committed suicide in 1994. Would it not make sense to remove her images? I had a lot of pictures of her but the thought that she blew her brains out made them considerably less appealing.
In other cases, some models request to have their images removed after they retire and move on. Marketa Belonoha is probably the best example of a spectacular model who has moved out of nude modeling and has asked the sites that showcased her to take down her images. Many sites honored that request but many did not. (She had a micro-site called Marketa4U.com in the Watch4Beauty network but took that down.) These day's you can't hide your past, but I think it is respectable to try to hide it from your kids until they are old enough to understand. Cases like these are reasonable when it comes to taking models off sites. (Marketa was one of my all-time favorite models, so I already have nearly every image ever shot of her.)
Other good reasons for pulling models include that they were minors when the shoot occurred or that the model release or image sale to that particular web site was disputed/pirated. Occasionally, when a site is sold, there are disputes about who actually owns the rights to the images (i.e. the site or a past partner in the site). That happens remarkably often and the safest thing is for the sites to remove the disputed images.
All that said, I do not think that old shoots should be arbitrarily pulled unless the quality is so bad the images or models degrade the impression of a web site. I just went back and looked at some Penthouse stuff shot in the mid-90's. Great stuff, but the images are 600x400 MAX so they have been remanded to the deep archives. What do you do with that stuff? If the originals can't be re-scanned, then I have a hard time blaming the sites for removing them.
The good news is that there is a shitload of great, new, high-resolution stuff out there and in terms of disk space it is pretty much doubling every year. We all like our old favorites, but there is a new girl somewhere getting naked for us every day!
Shit. Another novel. Sorry!
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05-31-15 06:48pm
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