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Originally Posted by Tempest
While I don't agree that the "pay" porn model will ever die, it's definately in for a much rougher ride.. I was talking to a model who just got back from a eastern european country and she was telling me about how much more mature the industry is over there. Beautiful girls.. very professional productions... They speak english more and more... and you can shoot all the content for a DVD for probably a 10th of what it costs in NA and Europe. As margins continue to shrink, porn production in NA etc. will slowly die and be transplanted to the cheaper regions. We're already seeing it happen and it will accelerate. As long as porn companies can find cheap talent, the pay for porn model won't go away.
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That is a temporary deal. Just as porn online seems determined to make itself into a 5% profit business, the modeling end of things always goes to shit as well. Someone will come into the market, pay the girls 20% more to get them to work for him, and the spiral will start. Soon enough, those countries will no longer be the low dollar provider, and everything will shift around again.
Libertine, if megatroic was paying for content, they would go broke. To keep up with the volume of content on that site, they would be shooting probably 50 - 100 scenes a week. That would be something like 50k - 100k a WEEK for content. You cannot base the concept of an acceptable business model on a site that doesn't pay a large percentage of it's true costs. They are covering the bandwidth and making a profit specifically because they aren't paying for content. If they did it all above board, they would be sunk in a minute.