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Originally Posted by RawAlex
There isn't that much non-exclusive available. They would be good for a while, but sooner or later, they would hit the dregs. The appealing part of tube sites is the "you ain't seen this before!" mentality, because it is all freshly jacked from other sites. If they were paying for content, they would hit the wall pretty quickly.
How much content do you think megarotic goes through every day? I am thinking something like 40 scenes a day gets burned there. 14,600 scenes every year. They would have to be buying the rights to a ton of porn of every sort to keep it going and up to date.
Bandwidth isn't a negligible thing, because they are extremely popular with surfers. Think about it. The drudgereport claims 10 million visits per day. According to Alexa, megarotic gets 10 times more visits then drudge. So they are pushing out 100 million visitors per day, 10 clips each, 1 billion clips at say 10 meg each? 10 billion meg of bandwidth daily. You can't tell me that bandwidth is just a rounding error in their business model.
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As I said before, a legal site doing this would not need to have the amount of content they have to outcompete traditional adult sites. Right now, ironically, the biggest barrier to entry for legal sites doing this are the illegal ones doing it.
As for non-exclusive content being available... I believe WorldWideContent has some 60,000 scenes available. I'm fairly sure that would keep the average surfer happy for a few years.
And no, bandwidth isn't negligible. In a business model like this, bandwidth is the main cost - I already said so earlier in this thread. Compared with the millions being paid in bandwidth, buying content would only be a relatively small percentage of total costs.
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that they're paying a million dollars a month in bandwidth, and making a profit. If that's the case, and bandwidth prices were to drop by 10%, they would suddenly have an extra monthly 100k to invest in content. At $100 a scene non-exclusive, that's about 33 scenes a day - more than almost any surfer would watch.
Bandwidth prices eventually *will* drop by 10%.