Originally Posted by Libertine

Actually, free porn is a major problem.

The problem isn't that they make money, the problem is that they lower margins across the industry. The more you give away for free, the smaller the number of people that are willing to pay.

Tubes count on economies of scale. And the bigger their market share, the smaller they can afford their margins to be. If you lower margins per visitor by 50% on average, but increase traffic by 1000%, it's an easy increase in overall profit.

The problem is that the amount of people in this world is limited. If tube sites lower average spending per person by 50% and take up a large share of the market, it's a win for them but a loss for the industry as a whole.