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Originally Posted by Lazonby
7. No-one is prepared to make the first move because (horror of horrors) they may (or may not) have to take a temporary dip in revenue before the situation improves.
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It would take a tremendous effort on all to accomplish this. The problem is, many people are too short sighted and think that by lowering their price or being the cheapest that they will get "all the traffic" which is untrue. All it does is force everyone else to lower theirs.
If we could convince every person that's hosting an image right now to go out and censor "the goodies" then you would see an increase in revenues. Of course, we are talking about millions of galleries, but if everyone started today...
And another thing, why haven't some of the "big programs" who have deeper pockets (we assume) gone to the lawyers who represent the RIAA and attacked GUBA and other sites that are letting people post copyrighted material. Hell, if the music industry can go after individuals for downloading free music, I'm sure the same applies to free porn. I can't even remember the number of settlements I've heard of by individuals to the RIAA. I think they go after about $3500 per individual, which is likely more than any surfer would ever pay in a lifetime of subscriptions.