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This is Hacker news. And, as much as I hate to say it, if you put up a pay wall, it's just going to be a matter of time before someone writes a script to downl
by iamelgringo 17y ago
This is Hacker news. And, as much as I hate to say it, if you put up a pay wall, it's just going to be a matter of time before someone writes a script to download each video and put up a torrent of it as you release it onto your site.
We're entrepreneurs, and at the point where some of that information would be really useful to us, we're usually broke and in need of advice/help. Charging broke entrepreneurs to access your archive of content seems counter intuitive.
What I would be willing to pay for, however, is having access to a library of edited 4-5 minute videos. I'd really be willing to pay for those videos if I could search through or navigate those videos by specific questions and answers. That's the service that I want, and that would be worth around $10-14 a month to me.
And, as a reference point, I carried a Safari Library subscription for several years at $45 a month, which allowed me instant access to all of O'Reilly books library as well as a library of videos. I also pay to rent movies on Amazon at $2.99 a pop. I pay Rhapsody a $14 month subscription to have access to 1.5 million tracks of music on demand. I also pay Pandora $30 a year to have pretty good music recommendations streamed to me.