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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Many programmers think if it can be done they can do it. for instance how many listening to music on the Internet are buying it? Funny in a business that sells a license to enjoy content on one hand, some will download it and listen to it themselves for free.
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Sure.. hell, certain parts of this industry never even needed a script/programmer - just two spreadsheets - one for you, one for me *lol* Lost track of the defaulting sponsors now - but was over $250K years back. Of course they all ran "top notch programs" and were "stand up guys"
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The problem is not going to go away, unless 2257 is applied with real effectiveness on a world wide basis. So the problem is here to stay. Do you think sites with 40 poor videos add to the problem or help solve it?
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Not really gonna happen Paul on 2257 - it's a waste of time and unenforceable. There was the day where we always complied with 2257 - simply because it looked as tho it was the start of a potential standard, - but sadly it's kinda useless and more a joke than otherwise. Can remember when asking a US LE person about this - she rolled her eyes and gave a dry grin - they have more serious stuff to deal with than playing with paperwork.
Unfortunately 2257 is just playing games - in this case with the US online industry. It really does not do much to capture "perps" who are engaged in underage stuff. These people don't care about 2257 and are only the "front end" of an abusive scenario with kids. If LE went after the producers and all "actual" CP content, there may be a point, but doubt that is the case.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
IMO if paysites offered enough good content the surfer might be more willing to get out his credit card. You can't wave a magic wand and remove free content, you can make the product you're selling more appealing.
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Totally agree on crap content! The general standard of the average paysite is ... well, pitiful.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The market for "little girls fucking" is tiny. Teens of an age that reminds the viewer of girls in his college, high school is enormous.
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You think it's small??
(Not talking about the teen market here) Paul - it's *massive*, tho admittedly there are fortunately only a few idiots operating these types of "programs" - and they earn very well. It's like a "legal version of CP" and can be openly promoted "because it is legal" (it ain't - but another story). If you care to have a look (tho it's depressing!) at pedo search terms and the volume of these searches - they match and can exceed what we would consider to be good key phrase numbers for the adult industry. There are one hell of a lot of pedos out there. This type of "styled up" fake CP content is illegal in most western countries - chances are that will be the next "excuse" to attack the main stream adult industry and have the media picking it up and throwing shit - and eventually more laws to kill it.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Very few of them make enough money to give up the day job, but it's the resources we as an industry devote to them that does the real harm.
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Again - totally agree
Don't matter which sponsor program - 90% is taken up by inactive or poor performing affiliates and 10% actually do the biz. At the same time, that 90% consume more time and resources than the productive webmasters - makes ya wonder
