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Some good reasons posted above too..
1) On US based processors US people are the largest porn buyers, US just had a huge shopping day.
2) Now it's the holiday season buying for many Countries.
3) Far reach maybe? How about wifes looking at credit card statements to see how much they can spend for the Holidays.
4) Job loss/gain is really off in some areas of the US.
5) Natural disasters like the Cali fires, mid west floods, and the southern drought.
6) Then the Economy, real or not - people aren't spending as much or they really don't have as much to spend. Mix this with the Holidays, and who knows.
7) War - That's a lot of people not buying porn.
8) Cheap higher speed dialup or regulated cheaper dsl is all over the tv, that area has seen growth while dsl/cable hasn't - at that speed hasn't increased, email spam hasn't decreased and all the other negative Internet issues blasted all over the Media. Fear works people, hands down.
9) Internet pipes/isp's around the world. If you monitor the major backbones around the world (internet health reports) and then research the pipes the processors are on.... match that with sales spikes/trends.. and you will see a perfect match. When a major backbone has a problem, sales have problems.
10) Lets not forget the Banks, if they have problems-host-backbone issues, then we are all boned.
This is just 10 of the really 100's of other reasons that change from country to country.
The free porn argument isn't the cause of this, it isn't the reason programs have seen a drop. The US isn't the largest users of these services but if the US is the largest buyers of porn then something doesn't add up. Not that the every growing growth of free porn over the last 10 years isn't a factor - I'm sure it is - but it isn't some boom that people are thinking that just took place.
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