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Originally posted by fantasyman
CE opened our marketing program Fast Cash in August 1996.
In early 1997 when we started the online radio show Sharkylive and we discussed with Webmasters to reduce the amount of free content on their sites to increase paysite conversions.
If there was very little nudity on free sites, paysites would convert a lot more for free site owners, but TGP's have nipped that in the bud 
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Exactly right.
I remember being on that first SharkyLive and talking about targetting your traffic (believe it or not it was not common knowledge to send "teen" traffic to a "teen" site) and teasing the surfer with softcore pics.
The "they'd only get it from kazaa" argument does not hold water either. If that was true then the record industery would not sell billions of $$$ worth of CD's every year.
Bottom line is that if there were no TGPs and a limited amount of free porn (and especially no free movies) there would be a LOT more money being made.
But, as I said before, it'll never happen...