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Originally Posted by nick3131
In my opinion.... and u know their like assholes we all have one.... Take away tubes giving out full scenes and you improve conversions GLOBALLY by maybe 5% (and im being generous)... you take away FREE PORN and you improve conversions 1000%... you suddenly have a situation where the demand is higher then the supply (because all the free porn is essentially supply and yet we still manage to make $), which I don't need to teach you is good for everyone in this biz.
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maybe so, but many years ago way less surfers knew where to get free porn so even though there was a lot of it available they still paid since they had no idea about the free shit. Now way more surfers know where to get the free porn so that is what's fucking sales and now we introduce tube sites with full length videos and they get a lot of press.. Newspapers, tv etc so even more people find out about this and there goes more sales.
Someone in this thread mentioned BBS's. They offered free porn, so did news groups, you could get a lot of free porn on MIRC etc.. The free porn is not the real problem. The real problem is that more people know where to get it now. Sure, if we take away all the free porn sales would increase, but not as much as you think because they would still find it on other places. Torrent, p2p software, chat rooms where they can swap pics/vids, friends who have access to some pay sites etc..
There's no way in hell to get rid of free porn. It has always been here even before tgps, mgps and link lists. BUT tgps, mgps and link lists never gave away FULL length videos and this is why tube sites, if they continue, will kill sales even more. You may think that they don't affect sales, but they do.
Just imagine, instead of 1000 TGPs/MGPs we replace them with 1000 tube sites all with full length videos. Where do you think all the surfers will go for their porn? Do you actually think that even the ones willing t pay will actually pay when they see that they can get the same content on a tube site for free?
Sure, you'll say that there are some that want specific content and they will buy a membership to a site that has his content. True, but what if they find out that there's a tube site that has this content for free? Well, they will charge back to be an asshole and go to the tube site and get the shit for free. Seeing as they all use stolen content it's safe to say that they will eventually have all the shit that surfers are looking for.
Not saying that you're wrong.. Hell, I could be wrong. Who knows, but this is just the way that I see it.