Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
great looking women
Cons:
DRM. I see where s review on this site says no DRM anymore.....I'm here to tell you as of 8-29-09 they have a 7 day DRM. That means after 7 days it doesn't work. To add insult to injury they don't mention their DRM policy before you join. Additionally they do not respond to emails asking for an explanation.
the search function is close to useless
very difficult and non user friendly signing in protocol
Bottom Line:
Do your self a favor........Stay clear of this site....
Private.com apparently does not care what we think and see themselves as above having to respond to our legitimate concerns and complaints.
Arrogance is not an attractive attribute and Private.com embodies that very word.
Was a member approx. 2 months prior to this review.
Pros:
* Some of the most attractive Euro models out there
* Women, not girls
* High-quality photos
* Lots of hardcore
* Lots of anal
* A large amount of content
Cons:
* Difficult to navigate
* Not enough updates
* Photo sets are short
* Low-quality videos
* Videos don't have nearly as much energy as the photo sets
Bottom Line:
Private's site is much like Private's videos, both good and bad. The actresses are flawless, some of the most beautiful women in the world. And I don't mean girls, but honest-to-god women. And few of them are afraid to take a cock in the ass or do a DP scene, or another woman for that matter. But the video scenes lack a certain energy: there's a lot of fucking, but it's hard to put yourself into the action.
The site has a fair amount of original content, but it's a chore to navigate and it's not updated as often as would be convenient.
Every few years I wonder what Private's been up to, and every few years I rejoin. But once I'm there, I wonder why I bothered paying so much for so little.
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
they have some pretty girls, angel dark being one of them and the video quality is good.
Cons:
the movies have a DRM on them so unless you stay a member, dont bother going back to view them. On top of that I had gotten a 9.99$ deal thru freeones.com and the site ended up charging me double that amount.
Bottom Line:
DRM, outdated pics you can find anywhere and shady business practices....I too joined "porn users" just to warn everyone of this truly horrible site...i just wished I found this site earlier and read the previous entry
Current Member for less than 1 month (at the time of review).
Pros:
The sad thing is this company has the potential to be the BEST site, I would easily give it a score of 100 if it fixed the Bad things I've described, because they have the most beautiful girls, the diversity of content, and their BACK CATALOGUE. So this is the only good thing I can say really. Sorry
Cons:
The reason I have given this site a low score because the dvd is poor quality. I was prepared to live with the DRM, although that is misleading. The site states BURN & KEEP FOREVER. and in smaller print Watch it Forever, but only if you remain a member? Also, when you browse the content, most of the dvd titles are not DVD quality, with complete scenes that are 16M in size, you know you can only appreciate these if you want to play them on your mobile, not a 32 inch TV, hello! Why don't they HI-RES all their old Magazines, made them easy to download, and with the Films, download the whole film, not scene by scene. The largest scene I have found so far is 240MB. On most other sites that size is used for the Credits.
Bottom Line:
I cancelled my membership after 5 hours. Sorry.
After paying this membership and feeling TOTALLY ripped off compared to other sites, I decided to register at www.pornusers.com so I could make this review to WARN others. This is my first review ever because I feel so strongly about being so disappointed. If you are going to spend this much, go to another site.
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Didn't feel like writing a full review, just wanted to note that this site is very disappointing. Though they do not have DRM anymore, and the ability to download a good portion of their magazine archive in pdf format is pretty interesting; the navigation is terrible (looking at the preview would lead you to believe the navigation is pretty good - but the navigation of the member area is very different and significantly worse). Also all their content is not available (yet?). I would not recommend joining this site, especially since a lot of their content is available elsewhere - videobox for example; unless you really want to download the magazine archive, which I guess might be worth it as the TBP price is pretty good.
I'm here to report, and respond to kirkwall's recent review.
There is no more DRM at Private. I decided to take a shot at this site, because they do have high quality material, but I didn't trust them.
While the site could use some improvement, contrary to what this reviewer claimed at the end of this August, there is no DRM whatsoever. Reading his review just now got me paranoid, because I was a member in August (he claims they have a "7 day DRM") so I ran a thorough check of what I downloaded (my membership is now expired). No DRM. I even ran a number of videos using Real Player, which wouldn't work with DRM---no problem. I even went so far as to convert a video into mpeg format---no problem.
The site could be better, no real search to speak of, and they need more of their massive library there. But a Private site without DRM is a good site.
I've been waiting to join this site, they have many videos of some of my favorites including Eve Angel, Simony Diamond and Black Angelica, but one of the newer reviews says the DRM is still there, the other newer review says no DRM. Is there anyway, since the webmistress is active, that you can say the DRM is not on the movies, no tricks or explain why two reviews made within a week of each other have completely different points about the DRM?
I ask because I know of another site that was using DRM, and I wasn't seeing it when I was a member. Posted a review of no DRM, then another member said there was DRM. It was the difference in file types we downloaded, the site still had DRM on their WMV files (what the other member was downloading), but none on the AVI files (what I was downloading).
Also, on the join page, this is a little confusing "Tag Undefined offer01r$" and has a tick button beside of it. I do see that it says "$19.95 special offer" but have no idea what that quoted part means. Thanks.
After the most recent comment from the Webmaster regarding changes in the site, I attempted to subscribe through to the link provided by TBP. It didn't work because it rejected my CC, supposedly because the CVV2 No. was incorrect. I tried a couple of times making sure that it was right, and it still didn't work. I have used the card in the last week for other things, and had no problems. What most disappoints me, however, is the fact that I received no response from an e-mail I sent to the site, as well as the lack of any response here to my comments earlier. I was really looking forward to checking out the changes described by the Webmaster since I am a big fan of the studio, but it seems their problems with customer service and unresponsiveness noted by others here continue.
I've been told that Private has discontinued the evil DRM technology.
Can anyone here confirm this?
Well, I just took a look inside the site and they do have a banner that states "No DRM'. That would be a great thing, why don't I trust it? LOL
OK---I went back in, and it seems to me the downloads are their videos. And you have to purchase the download, for at least $18.95! But it has no DRM. Looks like they just won't let go of the sucker born every minute mentality that has polluted porn for so long.
I would have expected more professional treatment from such a long-standing site, but you never know. I joined in October when they had a 2-month for $25 deal, which I thought made the site worth checking out. With DRM on their vids and crappy navigation on their pics, I had no interest in sticking around longer than that and cancelled using their site. The site confirmed my cancellation, though I did not receive an e-mail confirmation, which is pretty common - not getting an e-mail confirmation, that is. I was sure I was all set until I received my credit card statement this past weekend and saw that they had charged me an additional $30.54 US. I filled out the "Contact us" form on the site - no response. I sent an e-mail to an e-mail address that I had when a C/S person had responded promptly to an issue during my membership - no response.
Apparently, they're OK with you giving them money and resolving password issues while you're OK with giving them money, but they don't mind ripping people off and they don't respond to people that they have ripped off. I'm fucking pissed about it.
I used to be fan of private and joind the site several times before the days of high speed internet and the explosion of quality on-line porn. Today, Private seems stranded in the past. I haven't been a member in several years now and was recently going over reviews here and at other review sites with the idea that I might re-up. I can't say that I'm really convinced to do so.
They still only post about 15 pics per set (who the hell does that any more) and still insists on DRM protection. All of this plainly states that they are still making their living off of magazines and DVDs and probably won't budge until their sales start falling too flat. With their huge back catalog this could be one of the ultimate web destinations but instead choses to stay stuck in the past.
Has this site changed from being nothing more than an advertisement for their over priced DVD's? I notice there is still no downloading allowed (unless you consider the installation of spyware on your computer "downloading"). Last time I was there they offered very little except ways to purchase their merchandise.
Private is now a very good site: new homepage, a lot of hardcore movies with beautifull girls (I'm not interested about magazine).
- entertain: 10/10
- quality: various but hight (not so hight for old movies)
- updates: weekly, but some movies are changed during the week
- exclusive: 10/10
- download: 3 speed wmv, very good
- but DRM protection
- value: 17/20 a bit expensive
Bottom line: after a long waiting, Private now is a decent site wich can only grow. The problem is DRM.
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