People just brushing this off are idiots. Think about it, the surfer thinks that once he logs in he will get full-length porn movies for free! just like tube sites.
Before tube sites came out surfers never expected to get full-length porn movies for free from the free porn type sites like link lists, TGPs, etc.....
the industry is just fucking itself up in the ass. to be honest i think the main reason is that when the less developed third-world countries got a little more advanced and they were able to get on the internet they found out they could make money on the web. and to them the couple of USD dollars they make from one sale is a shitload of money to them in their country so they don't mind fucking up the industry since those mediocre sales to them is worth alot more than it is to people living in more advanced countries. some of these people in third-world countries that make a few sales a month can support them for a whole month where they are from. in fact, it's alot more money than they would make at a regular job where they are from.
this just snow-balled and to stay competitive the rest of the adult industry started giving everything away. i say we ban the internet from third-world countries.
third world countries don't make up most of our sales anyway, they just create adult webmasters that mess up the industry and take money out of our pockets while doing it.