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Originally Posted by shermsshack
We are both right in a sense... I'd say the average surfer visits many more sites daily than he/she did before. While a person may have visited 1 site a day, thousands of websites popup daily and are demanding attention from surfers. Webmasters and just normal people are learning about the power of viral...And that in turn teaches people to surf viral.
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Sure some people might hop around looking at different sites but when they find a tube site with that much free content that is where they going to go to in the future when they want free porn. Not a 12 pic gallery or 4 , 30 second videos.
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However, a bookmark is a bookmark. People may choose MGP's over tubes for varied reasons. Maybe it's because they actually LIKE looking at galleries to find a new paysite to visit because they want quality, and not some grainy flash clip. Maybe they like watching in an external player without having to pass it through a software converter. TGP surfers will continue to enjoy pics without question, as maybe they don't care to surf free porn vids. Maybe they use pics to preview a site, and want the bulk of the content once inside. Maybe their connections just suck and pics are all they can view efficiently. Not every surfer loves strictly movies and not every surfer is on a high speed connection.
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maybe they go to the tgp to see what cool new sites are out there, use the 12 pics as a preview then go to the tube site and search for that site
If their connection is so slow that they can only see pics, i don't they are the type to signup to a membership site.
Sure some people might like just pictures over videos but i bet you could count "those" people on 1 hand.
I personally think the people who own tgps are trying to justify this in their heads any way they can so they can make themselves feel better and that everything is fine. Instead, they should be looking the issue right in the eye and doing what they need to ensure they will continue to make money beyond their tgp site. I am a non biased onlooker, i do not own a membership site and I don't own a tgp, but this couldn't be any clearer what is happening here and where things are going.
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Now I'm getting away from my initial point however. Will MGP's and TGP's die? Eventually it probably will slow. This doesn't mean those sites have to let it die though. They can always change formats to adapt, and their built in base will put these sites back at the top once again.
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let me know when they start changing, all i see them doing now is saying their traffic is going up up up and tube sites are just a fad. I don't see them doing shit other then deny what is really happening.
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Did the music industry die when mp3's ran rampant? A part of it did, but other avenues opened. Some of the originators benefited, while the stubborn fell behind. I don't see the porn industry as being that much different. A few years this back, we all thought MGP's were the death of the industry. It's been the opposite. 
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Porn industry and music is night and day when it comes to stealing. Not everyone has a computer, you need a computer for 1 to get free music. There is value in buying the music, you get the actual CD, case and insert. You download a full lenth video from a tube site or the site who owns the video, there is 0 difference to you. People buy music as gifts for others, they don't do that with porn. Young kids buy music and might not be online or be savy with download sites. Downloading music is illegal and some people really have been scared off from doing it, others know it is wrong and wont do it. This is not the case with porn, people go to a site and see it is listed... are they going to go to jail for downloading off of megarotic? no. do they even know that the porn on that site is stolen and not put there by the sponsor ? There is several reasons why people still buy music but wouldn't pay for online porn. You can't compare the two.