If they insist on using DRM the service has be to be good. Removing someone's access to a video they have paid for is a scummy way of treating your customers. I've stopped purchasing anymore videos because of the crappy download speeds that they refuse to acknowledge or address. Talking of an even restrictive pay per minute system tells us that you're planning on further fleecing your existing customers for all you can rather than keeping the customer satisfied.
I'm re-boarding the pirate ship but the real pirate behavior is coming from the way that site and it's behavior to it's customers.
*sigh*
The DL speed is bad, was even exceedingly bad today: From 50 to 250 kByte/sec. This is less than 10% of the possible speed. But - there seems to be a problem with their DL servers, since I also had DL speed of 2.5 MB/sec, but just once for one file. The rest was frustrating, since I tried to restart several times without receiving a better speed. But on some days I can DL with around 1.5-3 MB/sec, and this is okay (for Europe). I also usually cannot stream without lags, but this would also be ok - its a long route.
The other thing: They did not exactly remove access to videos I had already bought - if you buy a video, you have the rights to view it as long as your account exists. The problem is, that they lowered the quality and content drastically without warning. Videos I had earmarked for later viewing were deleted and even if you stored the link, they cannot be streamed anymore and the DL is very slow.
My question to R18 (which I also wrote to support) is what happened here? They describe over 11000 videos in the channel, but actually - and showed in the same tab - there are only 8500 videos. Either something has gone wrong - or they do not care. We will see.
I usually prefer to pay, since there is less hassle with downloading. I am not a collector in the sense, that I want to store the movies here locally for a long time. I do not do this. I DL what I want to view, and several days later I delete it. And DL it new, if I want to view it again. I also would not buy a DVD for the same reason.
So R18 was ideal - sure, some movies you can get on the Usenet or via direct download, but it costs a lot of time to search them. Sadly R18 is NOT DMM, DMM always had a lot of movies, also older ones and special fetish movies. R18 has not - and no, I am not interested in Loli movies. Despite that the selection seems to be reduced to me. And movies tend to disappear after several years. They make good movies even today, but they are not on R18. Older movies were very good - but the are deleted. There really should be a solution for older movies (those which came out on CD) in special categories, beginning with 1995 or so. I cannot believe that I would be the only one or one of a few which would be interested.
The reason I like JAV is that they are not mainstream crap, especially in the categories that interest me, they have good acting and drama and beautiful models. But I see a tendency to have only mainstream crap on R18 too - and this I can DL from nearly everywhere. I take no offense at censoring, its fine with me if the movie is good. But mainstream movies censored, fairly expensive and with slow DL - rather no.
Thats my take ATM on R18...