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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
Exactly right.
Many of the tubes have went under already. 2008 had hundreds if not thousands for sale on some other boards. Basically people could not afford their bandwidth bills, even if a smaller tube.
Tubes are a fool's errand for 95% of the people doing them. They are never going to make any real money, and they may just cover bandwidth bill for others.
There are, maybe 5%, who will actually make big pay days off the tubes, and know how to properly market and upsell from them. They are the minority. There are no Google's of Porn who are going to pay millions in a bandwidth bill, and keep fucking around waiting for their advertising model to catch up.
Most businesses do not work that way, nor have a war chest of loot to piss money away crossing their fingers and toes. By the end of 2009, a lot of the tubes will be gone. As will about 40% of this industry. Especially with the credit card changes.
Viva la 2009!
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95% of them are going under... that's fine... but the rules of money still apply in adult as it does the rest of the world. 2% of the industry make 98% of the money. So the big tube sites are making money, and the little ones go away... doesn't really help the legit content producers.