Looking for good single-license streaming cam software (+ rant!)

[furrygirl]

The rant part:

I'm a top, a dominant, a stubborn female. I'm not a giggly ditz who smiles and tit-shakes her way through a sea of insults and laps it up in hopes of looking more subservient, and therefor more "appealing", to potential customers.

I'm sick of performing on a cam network, *any* cam network, and I'm getting so close to just leaving during a scheduled show and telling people to go eat shit. I have honestly never felt "degraded" or "objectified" by making porn before I started doing cam shows on "member-only shows" networks. (This is nothing against the owners of the network I'm working with now, this problem is everywhere.) By virtue of the fact that few of the viewers are my own members, I have to deal with people who are all grossed out by hairy pussy and either insult me about it or pester me about why I don't shave, if I've ever shaved, if I will ever shave, if I shave even my asshole, if I like to shave others, what I think of shaving, how old I was when I first stopped shaving, and back to "why don't you shave?" again.

From the two networks I've been on, I get nearly no traffic to my site from them, but the majority of my stress and headaches. For all the polite long-time chatters I have, there are several times as many people who are demanding, don't read my chat rules, tell me to do the same thing over and over and I've said no, tell be I'm a boring bitch for wasting time actually typing in chat, or ask the same things over and over about me, like how old I am, and if I'm a teenager. It can feel like a non-stop barrage of insults and stupidity, and the whole reason I work independently is so I don't have to put up with crap from other people.

I'm tired of dealing with guys who have been conditioned by other cam girls to believe that it's okay to be viciously insulting and demanding. Other chicks don't want to risk looking like a "bitch" and lose potential customers by telling them simple things like, "It's not okay to keep telling me to stick something in my ass when I've already said no eight times." Well, I'm a raging evil cunt, then, because I do not get off from being yelled at by 100 dudes, and I call chatters on their nasty behavior.

The request:

I don't need a massive media suite like Firecracker, just something simple that allows me to do streaming cam shows to my members. (Not a Java refresh cam!) My members I've interacted with are seriously quite polite people, almost without exception, and I want to make them happy and horny, not add to my stress level by submitting myself for my weekly complaint session on a network.

Any ideas?

[Toni KatVixen]

I have no ideas to add, I do cam shows for the content that the network adds to my site.

The viewers do make it hard to enjoy oneself. Unfortunately, it seems to be the nature of the beast of today's porn on demand and the interaction that viewers now have that they didn't have 20yrs ago. Of course, most assholes seem to think that just cuz you enjoy sex and make porn that you can be treated like any street trash.

But I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one who gets bitchy back. I've told guys to fuck off as I ban their sorry asses. We have even stopped the show in the middle of it.

The way I figure it, if they are going to treat me like that, I don't want them. I do my site on my terms only & if they don't like it, they can fuck off.

On the other hand, that attitude has gained me many fans and regulars who love a strong woman and beg for me to abuse them.

[furrygirl]

You and I are pretty alike when it comes to how we run our sites, I think. I give you major kudos for putting your foot and and stopping answering non-member emails, too. It's so time-consuming, and even though I'm actually a nice person who likes feedback and chat, I can't devote a chunk of my day to talking to people who aren't respecting my time by paying for it.

Back to the issue at hand, I honestly question how big of a retention device access to a cam network is for sites like ours, and if so, why not just lease feeds instead of dealing with the stress of working on a network? I'd spend a hundred bucks a month to make my members happy and to take the stress of big group shows out of my life.

I've been putting up with this for a while, thinking that it's just a part of life, but I'm really starting to see that I'm just *settling for it*, like a virtual abusive boyfriend or something. I run my own business, so why on earth and I doing something that can feel so dehumanizing?

I realize that I'm an entertainer and I am paid to be hot and get guys off, but it's entirely possible to do that on my own terms, and it sucks that the cam medium doesn't really allow for that as much. *All* the networks seem to have this, with *all* the shows. Somewhere, somehow, "we" started to let them behave like this, because they surely don't behave like this via email or on my private message board.

Anyhow, I do also get guys who love seeing me bitch someone out, and chatters who pipe up all the time and tell some jerk to be nice and respect me. Those are the people I want to cater to and please.

[emmanuelle]

While I am not current on the various cam software like I once was, I think that Doc Holly can help you out. She's pretty in tune with the pros & cons of today's programs.

[ColetteX]

webcam xp pro has a pretty good flash option that works well with most browsers. Its more of a stream than a java refresh. It also works behind pass protection.

Also, windows media encoder can be protected and if you don't have too many members viewing at once it can work really well. Not sure if you can do that with a mac.

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Perhaps you can start to utilize your dominance during cam shows & make money being a bitch. I know it works for a quite a few people.

I never chatted when I did my shows. I just played & didn't look at the chat. It was a lot easier that way.