I don't know how you guys claim that PPS can't work today. Do you remember stream hosters like Duckload, Bitshare, Fileserve, Megavideo and others? Also these hosters had only PPS and no PPV.
I don't know how we brought this trend with PPV a few years ago, I guess it was Openload. After PPV became primary, nobody wanted to know more about PPS. Openload was like a phenomenon with PPV of up to $40 per 10k views, full speed, no limitation. How is this supposed to work in the long run, especially today?
In the past, hosters could finance themselves with popups and banners and you could offer both (also premium). The users were so annoyed about popups and porn ads that they simply bought premium. At Stream hoster also the stream speed was drastically reduced just to force users to buy Premium. I still remember very well, I opened a movie on Bitshare and had to wait about 1 hour until half of the movie is loaded. Unless I bought Premium then everything was instant. At that time there was no adblocker and the ads were shown.
Today all free users have an adblocker, full stream speed and can even offer the videos in 3 different qualities. They can download the videos, they can even search the videos on Rapidvideo and not even then Rapidvideo restricts the users.
THAT'S WHY I ASK MYSELF! WHAT IS THIS UPRISING ALL THE TIME?
You guys have always been pampered with luxury for years and if someone else decides to do something now everything should be wrong? I think all stream hosters should abolish PPV like before and only offer PPS and let the free users really bleed so that all buy premium to be able to use the service. Servers do not finance themselves and offshore servers are not free!