Problems with "30 video downloads in 144 hours" :(
Rakly3 On top of that, 8K VR (two 4k cams) at 180° is visually just above 2K in most modern headsets. Which they call 4K headsets. because they count them together, just like two cams.
Yeah, so true. True 4k picture density would be freaking amazing in VR. I watch A LOT of old 2D porn in 4k and it's so damn crisp and whenever I go back into the helmet I like the 3D experience but the picture just feels less crisp. I guess I should stop watching 2D 4k content, lol.... 
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spacepirate Some people are really bad in math, if they think a 24 hour window would be better in any way.
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Axxipiter
They have a fraudulent start to the counter if you don't download something in the first day of the counter reset, it doesn't count that day's hours, so you lose time or days of downloads
You likely didn't download something until the 3rd day, so it reset your 144hrs (which is supposed to be 72 hours, unless you're new this month) on the 7th.. the 8th.. and the 9th..
The 8th for you became 144hrs again instead of 120.. the 9th became 144hrs again instead of 96.. and only started counting all the way through once you downloaded something on the 9th. It's a little hidden scam to defraud customers just that little bit extra
24 hour window means you have to download your up to 5 (should be 10) every single day, no days off..
multiple days you just have to make sure you download at least 1 the first day, so they don't defraud you with their hidden timer reset.. then you have days to download the other 29. You can take a day or two break then catch up.
Don't give them ideas on resetting it every day with a low number of downloads. You will lose more downloads.. whether you forget that day, or you're busy, sick, just don't feel like it that day, etc.
Still waiting on my 50% refund from the 30 per 72 hours I paid for.
Rakly3
That's not how the reset works, unless they have your account set differently somehow, which I doubt, because they claim they can't make different rules for different users. You get your full 30 at a certain time, period. It has nothing to do with any specific time you downloaded a file. The only quirk is you have to download something in the first day of the reset, or you lose days.
Rakly3
You're giving completely incorrect and overcomplicated information.
If someone's downloads reset at
3AM on 10/7.. then they will reset.. all 30 of them, together, at the same exact time.. at
3AM 10/13
3AM 10/19
3AM 10/25
etc.
period.
Unless the first day of the reset is missed, then it becomes like
3AM 10/7
3AM 10/8 (because 10/7 was missed)
3AM 10/9 (because 10/8 was missed)
3AM 10/15
3AM 10/21
3AM 10/27
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What a miss…
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doublevr You won't stop piracy by introducing stricter download limits. You reduce piracy by offering users a more comfortable solution worth paying for.
For streaming users, this is already done with meta data, such as cue points, searching for other scenes of the same model, and the ease of use without the need for hard disc space.
For download users, on the other hand, it runs in the opposite direction and the convenience of torrents increases with every further restriction by SLR.
If it's more convenient to download files per torrent than on the official site, even users who are still on the fence will turn to torrents. And stricter download limits are are step in that direction.
Why should limits prevent a "siterip"? You don't have to download all files every time, only the newly added files. In the worst case, several users share the download task - but that would only be necessary if there are more new files than the download limit covers - and at that point you are already alienating a large number of regular users.
Also, the download limits actually increase interest in "siterips" because it takes far too long to download even a single small studio's videos. If someone discovers an interesting new studio with, say, 100 scenes, with your new limits it would take a month of micromanagement to download those 100 scenes while keeping up with SLR Originals and some other videos. The pirate opens his favorite tracker website and is done within a day and a few minutes of "actual work" if his internet connection is fast enough.
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Truth. 
I'm pretty sure I even found SLR through piracy, so in a way it can be a great advertisement. Most people interested in trying VR porn don't have endless HDD space and might end up finding the streaming on SLR a better option.
doublevr What a miss…
https://imgur.com/a/TzorX3w
That post seems to be about scripts? But anyway what's the point of posting this if it only makes members more angry about the increasingly annoying limitations? You think that old screenshot validates SLRs decision of lowering download limits? It doesn't... it clearly wasn't enough because it went from 72 to 144 hours innit!
Reducing download limits for every paying member for little to no effect in the pointless fight on piracy... Well good job, you've succeeded in making SLRs service one step closer to being worse than the service piracy offers.
Also from the msg in that post... We have 3 script downloads a month on premium? This is news to me, thx pirates! 
(I don't use scripts but still, lmao I never knew)
spacepirate not really, you just download them the next day?
30 scenes in 6 days, equates to 150 scenes per month. Who needs to download more than 150 scenes per month? Hardly anyone I’d guess.
If you’re unhappy with the download limit, cancel your membership. If you’re a lifetime member, what’s your rush? You’ve got the rest of your life to download whatever scenes you want.
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petermc who needs 120 per month.. 30 scenes per 10 days is 90 per month.. 30 scenes per 15 days is 60 per month.. it's 50 per month, who needs more than 50 per month? it's 30 per month, that's plenty. it's 10 per month you have your whole life to download 10 per month..
"Who needs"
What people need is none of your damn business what we need or want or whether we use our 30 per 72hrs or not. The point is what was paid for (in my case and others). You don't tell me what I need. You provide me what I paid for, which was 30 per 72 hours, full quality downloads.
As I wrote before:
"I don't order a pizza and the deliver guy shows up with the box half empty and tells me, "well this is all the pizza someone really needs. Nobody really needs 8 slices. Only 1% or 0.1% of our customers actually eats all 8 slices, so now we're just going to give everyone only 4 slices after they already paid for 8.""
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petermc a) It's 150 only if you micro-manage your downloads and don't miss a single day. The counter for a 144 hour period only starts with your first download, so you have to make sure, that you download your first file on that specific day. Imposed micro-management and FOMO is not a pleasant user experience.
b) It's not the rest of my life, but the lifetime of SLR or even worse the time until the scene gets removed for some reason. I hope my life lasts longer than the other two factors.
c) It's always a bad idea to apply your own usage behavior to other users. As a customer, what is your agenda if you feel you need to defend restrictions by a company?
I'm in agreement that the changing of policies is complete garbage and will be taking my membership elsewhere when this subscription is done. For those of us that have to download instead of stream it really sucks. Some of the previews look great, but the actual video (or girl) is not what you've expected and then boom.... one of your downloads is gone!
It's also a bummer that you don't get credit for times when you don't download. I was recently on a 2 week trip with no downloads at all and I still got hit with the hard limit as soon as i got back.
Crappy policy to start with, worse that they change the yardsticks whenever they feel like it.
someoneX I’m not defending the company, I have no vested interest in doing so. I criticise their content a lot. I’m just saying most people don’t download 150 scenes per month, it’s a tiny fraction of the membership that this affects. I can’t believe that people like more than 150 scenes per month so much that they have to download and keep them. When do you have time to watch that many scenes?
They aren’t going to change their minds so you either suck it up or you cancel. There’s no point starting up endless threads discussing something which has already been discussed to death and been closed down numerous times.
The pizza analogy is not remotely similar. It would be more relevant if you paid a monthly subscription to your pizza delivery service which allowed you to order up to 100 pizzas per month and they then reduced it to 50 per month as 99% of their customers order less than 50 per month and some of the 1% who order more are likely sharing their pizza with multiple other households.
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oh my god, just kill me now
If you’re really going to be accurate then it’s more like you subscribed to pizza but are now being bullied into streaming the pizza into your mouth rather than taking it out of the box piece by piece, but the ratio of distasteful pizza over hot pizza keeps increasing and not only that but the original brand is now being produced in a fancy new oven that all the other parlors bought too except this one now cooks pizza that feels a little too large in your mouth and tastes a bit blurry and can only be eaten off of the latest plates 
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petermc You once again apply your own usage behavior to other users. This time you even go one step further and accuse us of piracy or account sharing.
We don't want to stream below industry standard (30Mbps for 8K videos is less than any other major studio uses) in DeoVR/SLR and download only a few favorites - we want to download videos in better quality and use our preferred player - especially after streaming with that player was actively blocked by SLR by removing the API access. In some cases streaming is not even an option, because the connection to SLR servers is not good enough from the users location.
We also don't want to be forced into a certain usage pattern in order to squeeze the maximum number of downloads out of the restrictions. And we do not want existing contracts/agreements to be unilaterally changed to our disadvantage.
I fully expect this thread to continue on since there's a lot of strong opinions, but I'll mention it since it's been a little while: SLR is a subscription service. If you feel like it's a fair shake for the price, then great! You can subscribe and enjoy.
If you feel like it's not worth the price, then you can choose to not subscribe and find another site/service that is more to your personal liking.
But since I see a few mentions of piracy - if you don't want to subscribe to SLR then at least subscribe to the individual studios. No one who is pirating content should think they're Robin Hood in this scenario.