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RawAlex · 09-16-2007, 03:11 PM

Warchild, one of my concerns in the longer run is that the whole free content thing is a dead end. Before we gave away none. Then we gave away 5%. Then we gave away 10%... now if you are giving away 10 minutes you are likely giving away 25% or more of an average scene.

At some point (and I think that point may be behind where you are a bit) you give away so much that most people are satisfied enough with what they get for free.

There is always a big move for free, that isn't a surprise. Sites that give away free content (from fusker to megarotica to youtube) are immensely popular trafficwise because there is no barrier to entry. I am sure that a restaurant that gave away everything for free (but tried to make up the money by covering every inch of their store with ads, and had people roving around trying to sell you stuff) would be immensely popular. As long as you can filter out the advertising and pay attention only to the content, a surfer is good to go.

Here is another example: Ever see a restaurant giving away meals? Rarely. Some of them give away a desert or a beverage (as simple as idea as a Mc combo meal) but nobody gives the food away entirely for free, because they know the simple concept: A person with a full stomach doesn't buy a steak dinner. They might buy a coffee, but they certainly aren't buying dinner.

In reality, the tube and torrent sites mostly work on the same principal: They give away the movies and stuff for free, but hope you click on a dating ad, or a "get rich quick" "get thin" "get a bigger cock" style ads to make up the money they lost giving away the content. "file hosts" are pretty much the same deal, giving away bandwidth in return for a ton of advertising and the "upsell to faster downloads". They don't care about the porn, they aren't selling it, because they know if they were, they would die off because they just gave too much of it away.

A man with a full stomach doesn't buy dinner. There is no reason for a guy with a limp dick and used kleenex to buy porn. It is why I am interested to see what you have going on, because I suspect there is "something" that isn't making this quite as straight as you are suggesting.

09-16-2007, 03:11 PM
RawAlex So Fucking Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: In a house. Posts: 9,465	Warchild, one of my concerns in the longer run is that the whole free content thing is a dead end. Before we gave away none. Then we gave away 5%. Then we gave away 10%... now if you are giving away 10 minutes you are likely giving away 25% or more of an average scene. At some point (and I think that point may be behind where you are a bit) you give away so much that most people are satisfied enough with what they get for free. There is always a big move for free, that isn't a surprise. Sites that give away free content (from fusker to megarotica to youtube) are immensely popular trafficwise because there is no barrier to entry. I am sure that a restaurant that gave away everything for free (but tried to make up the money by covering every inch of their store with ads, and had people roving around trying to sell you stuff) would be immensely popular. As long as you can filter out the advertising and pay attention only to the content, a surfer is good to go. Here is another example: Ever see a restaurant giving away meals? Rarely. Some of them give away a desert or a beverage (as simple as idea as a Mc combo meal) but nobody gives the food away entirely for free, because they know the simple concept: A person with a full stomach doesn't buy a steak dinner. They might buy a coffee, but they certainly aren't buying dinner. In reality, the tube and torrent sites mostly work on the same principal: They give away the movies and stuff for free, but hope you click on a dating ad, or a "get rich quick" "get thin" "get a bigger cock" style ads to make up the money they lost giving away the content. "file hosts" are pretty much the same deal, giving away bandwidth in return for a ton of advertising and the "upsell to faster downloads". They don't care about the porn, they aren't selling it, because they know if they were, they would die off because they just gave too much of it away. A man with a full stomach doesn't buy dinner. There is no reason for a guy with a limp dick and used kleenex to buy porn. It is why I am interested to see what you have going on, because I suspect there is "something" that isn't making this quite as straight as you are suggesting.