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July 21: We have now discontinued offering batch purchasing. During the past 2 months, only one person has made use of this service, and then only once. Customers almost invariably prefer the greater convenience of instant access to movies afforded by the Files Forever system. Maintaining a full backup library of movies, with all the password changes and house-keeping issues this entails, is a time consuming process. This decision is also based on our desire to automate the Bound2Burst website as much as possible. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause. June 14: We have now discontinued offering DVDs. Apart from one customer who bought most of them, there has been very little interest. If you are interested in having anything from the site on DVD, contact Dave on north@bound2burst.net to discuss availability and price. Most of the older movies are no longer stored in a format suitable for creating DVDs, although we have most of Jayne's. Tabitha's and Lola's work still available. Most movies released during the past year are still available. The price will reflect how many movies you choose to go on a DVD. The Bound2Burst membership option has now been withdrawn. This has been done to prevent the site returning to a significantly manual state (membership orders have to be filled manually and not via Files Forever), thereby allowing the staff to take a break from time to time. Those who have already signed up for membership are welcome to continue that membership for as long as they wish, or until we decide to end this facility completely. This is a step we will only take if circumstances force the situation, and in such an event any outstanding membership money will be refunded. March 30: All movies by season pages are now operational. A few of the description pages are missing with early movies, owing to a little accident with a delete key some while ago; titles most affected are those beginning with A or B. These are gradually being restored. The 2006 page, which is where we started selling desperation movies, contains links to some free downloads. These are movies filmed with Nichole & Kelsey which (for contractual reasons) we can no longer sell. The next step is to update the remaining movies by model pages. The pages for all current models are largely done and will be updated shortly to make them complete. This will be followed by updates to pages of models who no longer work with us. The movie index is not going to be reintroduced at the present time owing to the volume of work involved in this project. March 26: All 2007 movie pages have now been reconnected. The first two seasons of 2007 do not have movie set options included. Indeed, the sale of sets is rare after the first few months, so we'll probably take away that option for all 2007 and 2008 movie pages to keep everything as automated as possible. Movie sets will remain for 2009 (soon to be included on the Jan-Mar 2009 page) and will be available on all new releases during 2010. Audio stories have been reintroduced (see links on the front page of the site). They are a little more expensive than before owing to download charges levied by Dreamhost, but then they were all recorded by professional voice artists and we actually very expensive to obtain in the first place. A new story will be added soon, which is really just an edited version of the soundtrack to Story Time. Lily actually read a story while dying to pee, and her desperation was severely distracting for her. All of her mistakes and panicky gasps are left in the recording since they convey how difficult it was for her to stand there and read the story without wetting herself. There are plans to add more stories - Beverley will probably read one or two for us. After that, we'll have to see - future recordings will be governed by how much interest there is in audio only. March 16: Movies from July - September 2007 are now available (click here to visit the page). As with most pages, individual movies may be downloaded at once from Files Forever, whereas movie sets are still supplied using the old method - passwords are issued by sales@bound2burst.net and the movies are downloaded separately from the Bound2Burst archive. March 13: A lot of you are accessing our movies via the Movies by Model page. Please note that the MbM pages are incomplete. The only complete listing of movies resides in the Movies by Season pages which are up to date back as far as October 2007. The remaining pages will be updated over the next week. Early in 2009, we stopped offering DVDs with no plans to resume. In the following months, we received quite a few e-mails from people requesting DVDs, so they were reinstated towards the end of 2009. The DVD page was in hiatus for a while without active links, but this has been fixed and 36 DVD titles are currently listed. However, sales of DVDs are abysmal, totalling just a few per month. To offer DVDs, it is necessary to maintain very large movie project files, currently occupying over 3 TB of storage space. Every few months, it is necessary to purchase an additional storage device to maintain the library. Clearly, there is no real incentive to do this. If things remain this way into spring, the DVD page will be removed again, this time permanently. Once the movie projects have been deleted, there will be no going back since replacing them requires importing the original, unedited movies from storage tapes and starting over. This is not something I would be prepared to do. A few titles are currently available on Patches Place, and a few more may be added. However, Patches will never take over our DVDs completely, so only a smattering of titles will remain available. February 25: We have decided to go for the fund to make Holding Contest 7, and my thanks to the person who suggested the idead. HC 7 will run very much along the lines of Holding Contest 6 which was very popular, so I'm hoping there will be enough interest in seeing Lola and new model Mariah duke it out. Lola is a prodigous wetter when she is placed in a situation where she really has to hold on, while Mariah has already proved herself in Delayed Too Long where she held on for well over an hour, until her bladder was rock hard. I would therefore anticipate a contest that runs at least an hour, where the contestants will be scantily clad for some of the time, and where measurements will be taken to establish the winner. If the donations are sufficient, we will offer a nice bonus to the winner as an added incentive to wait as long as possible, bursting point and beyond! It should be tremendous fun and very entertaining. Filming in planned for early April. February 17: I have just heard from a customer who is concerned about giving credit card details to Dreamhost because they are not a well-known name like PayPal or CCBill, etc. I have reassured him that, in my opinion, Dreamhost is a trustworthy organisation. They have been hosting Bound2Burst since May 2005 (after Yahoo shut down my first site - what a surprise), and they have always treated me fairly, responded when I've experienced problems, and given me a lot of latitude to operate for very low hosting fees. I have never had any problems with them at all. Of course, I am biased since they are hosting me, so all I can suggest is doing a web search on Dreamhost using the word review to see what shows up. As with everything, reviews are mixed. But then, try doing the same with PayPal! All I can say is that I have not had any problems with Dreamhost, and in my case they are hosting material that most hosts and financial vendors will not knowingly touch. I suppose, in the final analysis, you have to take your chances if you want pee desperation videos at a reasonable price. All 2009 movies are now linked to add to cart buttons and can be downloaded immediately. Movie sets have been zipped together for purchase back as far as June 2009. Prior to this, sets are linked to a rich text format file on Files Forever which serves as a receipt for your purchase; passwords for downloads are provided manually as in the old days of B2B. Over time, all movie sets will be zipped and uploaded, but that is a slow and fairly expensive process - slow because each zipped movie set has to be uploaded (it's like uploading all the movies twice), and then when the files are stored on Files Forever, we are charged a one-time fee of about $3 - this is in addition to the storage fee for the same amount each time a customer buys and downloads a set. Clearly, uploading and storing about 200 movie sets is going to cost about $600, so this is going to be spread over time. Loading the individual movies has already cost this, so the transition to Files Forever is non-trivial, cost-wise and time-wise. Once done, of course, the files will be there forever and we won't have to worry about keeping up with issuing passwords, which will be nice for everyone. Work will soon commence on 2008 movies. In the meantime, there are new movies from Jayne to process and upload, plus some long-outstanding DVD orders to fill. DVD customers have suffered significantly in the past month, for which I sincerely apologise. February 13: We have received a few e-mails from customers who are concerned to see movies they have already purchased listed alongside new purchases. You are not being charged again for these movies. With Files Forever, you will see everything you have purchased forever. If you buy movies over a period of a year, or even 5 years, everything you have bought will be listed. If you don't want to keep files on your computer at home, just delete them, and when you want them again, re-download them from Files Forever. It's a great way to safely store your library, and Dreamhost guarantees they will never delete your movies. There is one point I want to make though. On all Files Forever pages, Dreamhost has this statement which refers to the downloadable content: "It has no DRM restrictions of any kind". DRM stands for "digital rights management". Dreamhost insists that we, and other individuals or merchants, do not post material where the copyright is owned by someone else. It's their safeguard against getting sued if someone uploads copyrighted music files or movies and then sells them or shares them illegally. The copyright on all Bound2Burst and Beauties in Bondage movies is owned by David North, and while I am happy for you to share your B2B or BiB movies with friends, I do ask that you don't make them available to others via message boards. Dreamhost tracks downloads and they flag anything that looks like illegal account sharing (i.e., your account is being accessed by numerous IP addresses). If they catch you distributing movies by sharing your account in this way, they will close your account and ban you for life. This means that you would not be able to purchase our movies again, and those that you have already bought will become permanently unavailable to you. February 11: We're making progress. Almost one year of movies have been reconnected to the add to cart buttons. On recent movies by seaon pages, movie sets can also be downloaded straight away, although the files (with all movies in the set zipped together) are large, typically 800MB - 1 GB. This is a problem for some customers. Moreover, it has been reported that the Files Forever server is a bit slow, downloading at around 250 kB per second, so that a zipped movie set may take over an hour to download. It may be better in general to provide movie sets the old fashioned way, via Bound2Burst, since downloads from our server on Dreamhost are generally faster. The April-June 2009 page therefore has movie sets represented by a rich text file on Files Forever, which just provides a mechanism for you to pay. Once you have paid, we will see your purchase and send the download information to the e-mail address you used to make your purchase. For the time being, we will work backwards through the catalogue like this, and will only install zipped movie sets if customers ask for it to be done. There is another issue, not a serious one but something to consider. Files Forever charges us a storage fee each time a customer buys a movie. This storage fee is designed to cover the cost of the bandwidth you use when downloading the file. For a typical movie, this is about 50-60 cents, so it's not really a big deal, although when added to the 50c + 5% processing fees for your payment (these are applied to Bound2Burst, not you), it does eat into our share of the income. True, it's not anywhere near as bad as Clips4Sale who take 40%! The time these storage fees on Files Forever really hit us is when zipped movie sets are purchased. Because the set files are so big, the storage fee is $2-3, so now we're losing up to $5 per purchase, whereas PayPal only charged us the 50c + 5% processing fee plus a month flat charge of $30. It makes a difference! However, if we post a RTF file on Files Forever in place of a zipped movie set, the storage fee is only 1 cent when a purchase is made, because now the files is very small. It doesn't cost us anything when you download movies from Bound2Burst. You can probably see where this is going... Okay, so if you buy a movie set this way, it's back to the bad old days of waiting for passwords to get your downloads. While this arrangement is cheaper for us, it also inconveniences you. We therefore propose a way we can both save money. From here onwards, we will post 2 add to cart buttons with each movie set, one pointing to the zipped movie set on Files Forever and the other pointing to a RTF file on Files Forever. If a zipped movie set is $24.95, then we will only charge you $22.95 for the version where you wait for the passwords. This will wipe out the storage fee for us, and you share in the benefit with a discount of about 10%. If you have views on this idea, send your comments to me at north@bound2burst.net. Other news: Jayne's website, Desperate Jayne, has now been populated with add to cart buttons that point to her movies on Files Forever. For now, her movie sets are just RTF files, so the passwords to access sets come from us. This may change, but at least everything is now accessible. Jayne has closed off Elegant Bondage though since there is little interest in that from her desperation fans. Oh, and we have just received 2 tapes of new material from Jayne, so her site will be updated during the new week. February 6: Just to be absolutely clear: we are initially working chronologically backwards through the Movies by Season pages, and for now most movies can only be bought via these pages. Once these are complete, we will work through the Movies by Model pages, following by the individual description pages. There are literally hundreds of description pages, however, so that will take quite some time. This means the button you see on most description pages will not work, so please don't attempt to buy movies through description pages. In some cases, these would reflect the wrong price, where an increase has been necessary. I am shortly going to introduce a Buy All Movies on This Page button on the older Movies by Season pages with a large discount, so anyone interested can purchase the lot. Obviously, there will be movies on a page you won't want, but the idea is that the discount will be big enough that you would still get your money's worth. The "Best Of" series is going to continue. At the moment, we have only The Best of Lola, but this is also planned for movies by Tabitha, Jayne, Danielle, Beverley, and all of the long-term models who have made a lot of movies. The "Best Of" sets will contain 10 of the model's best movies for a fixed price. February 3: The folks at Dreamhost have kindly added a large, yellow "Add to Shopping Cart" image to the Files Forever system, making it much easier to find! Our red "Add to Cart" link just take you to the movie download page where you have to select "Add to Shopping Cart" again. It's a lot like the old system with PayPal really. I did consider having a different kind of link on Bound2Burst, but Buy Now sends the erroneous message that one can't buy more than one item using that link. I hope everyone will get used to the new system. Some of the prices on some of the longer movies have gone up a little. Sorry about that. The reason is this: in addition to a processing fee, we get charged a storage fee each time someone buys a movie - the larger the movie file, the bigger the fee. Movie sets cost us an extra $2.50-$3.00 per download which, when combined with the transaction fee, makes the overhead about 20%, compared to around 10% with PayPal (but then, that was an entirely manual system). The increase in most cases is only $1 - we will absorb the rest. I hope that customers will see this as the extra cost of having an automated system, which quite a few of you have been requesting for a long time. Our prices are still way below Clips4Sale though since Dreamhost is not taking 40% of the sales price in commission. Thanks for sticking with us through this enforced transition. Dave.
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