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Originally Posted by BFT3K
But they were still selling products!
Walmart wasn't GIVING away their competition's products for FREE - they were still in business to sell a fucking product!
Adapting to the "give it all away for free" business model is not a sustainable plan - it is simply a race to the bottom.
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Retailing products for a price that is less than their competitor's cost is exactly the same thing.
The exact same logic applies.
Why buy it if I can get it for free?
Why buy it for $5 here if I can buy it for $3 there?
There has always been free porn. The amount of free porn has steadily increased and become easier to find. The quantity and quality has steadily increased since the web began, and ever since the first day that the first free pic was out there, someone was bitching about it, but billions have been made in the meantime. This is no different.
To be fair, everyone's numbers are down at least 25% right now. That's because of the recession and would have happened regardless of tubes. People would have jerked off to bikini pics on myspace if there weren't tubes.....you can't get blood from a turnip. A chunk of our former customers no longer have the ability to buy, nothing we can do about that.
However, free sites have improved drastically in the past couple of years in terms of quantity and quality and ease of use, while most paysites haven't changed at all. The ones that haven't changed are the ones hurting the most because the tubes have better stuff for free than these paysites are charging people for.
The companies that are constantly improving their product are doing fine, relatively speaking. (relative because of the recession)
The people who are hurting right now, and I mean really hurting, are free site owners who lost traffic to better free sites, and paysite owners with an outdated product that they can no longer sell.
