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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
14. It seems you've been up and down so many times in this industry, and right now our industry is down. How do you describe the current state of the industry, and do you think we'll still be here five years from now?
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(Steps Up Onto Cyber Soapbox)
AHEM... is this thing on????
I feel pretty much the same as I always have about the state of our online industry, I personally feel that since the beginning too many people have NOT treated this as a REAL BUSINESS, and that is the MAIN reason we are where we are at today....
In the VERY beginning, we drew WAY TOO MUCH unnecessary heat to us thanks to the boards and people posting ... no BRAGGING about the HUGE amounts of money they were making IN DAYS, pictures of cars, houses, wine, jewelry, stacks of cash etc etc etc it made the feds, and the IRS, and all the powers that be stand up and take a BIG notice at us....
one by one crackdowns started to happen,
We kept going,
rob the surfers blind, triple bill them hide the cancel button, circle jerk them until they paid you, then pray to god they were to scared or embarrassed to cancel or fight their bills....
Visa, American Express, Paypal etc etc stepped up and spanked us back
We kept going,
some of our sponsors used "shady" tactics to gain new members without the help of affils, affils had no idea about this and instead cried "The Password Sites Are Killing Our Ratios"
We FLOODED the internet with "Free Samples" and then BITCHED that the TGP's runied our ratios and yet we KEPT feeding the TGP's more and more 'free samples'
We promise the surfer the world and once they pay we give them the same shit as 100 other sites but packaged a tad bit diff
We robbed, we cheated, we lied, and we HID and then bitched when the big bad 2257 monster came to town "FORCING" Us to reveal our "biz locations"
We kept going
we installed viruses and malware on our sites to make the extra buck, we became MORE and MORE shady never gave a fuck,
we filled up inboxes with massive amounts of spam, while all the while trying to fuck uncle Sam
We kept going
We then decided it wasn't enough to fuck JUST the surfers so we turned our sites onto each other and fucked some more,
we used scare tactics and fear to make a quick buck, If your not a FSC member then you'll surely be fucked
when the big bad DOJ comes knocking on your door, If your not on the sealed list you better hit the floor
The sponsors are shaving, affils misbehaving, and all the while were simply digging our own graves
We'll scam the work, we'll fuck over a transfer, we've become the same scammers we've bitched about for over 10 years now!
why oh why does everyone think were so bad?
what do we ever do?
(I just realized some of that rhymed lol)
Today it's the same if not worse, the only thing that has really changed is the METHODS, TGPS begot Tubesites, Password sites begot Rapidshare sites and tipple blind billing begot cross-sales
If we continue down this road we will devour ourselves, in the end someone will just cut us off from the rest of the interent and we will only be left with each other.
Now, sadly my solution will NEVER come, at least not in my lifetime, the web is the perfect place for scammers and thieves to hide and breed, and as a collective I do not EVER see the online porn industry coming together to fix
itself, There are WAY too many ego's involved!
Take a look at the "mainstream" porn industry, you don't see THEM berated AS MUCH as we do, you don't see the feds lining up and cracking down on them AS MUCH as they do to us, you don't see Visa refusing to process them cause they use the word TEEN in a title... BUT us... remember back in what, 2003 Visa wanted US to change "Teen" to "Co-Ed"
I can literally go on and on about this (and if you remember my radio shows you KNOW I'm not exaggerating that lol)
BUT, I will try and wrap this all up nice and neatly....
WILL we still be here in five years from now, well that all depends on how you define "We" I do believe that unless "they" figure out a way to close Pandora's box and keep porn away from the hungry masses,
SOME of us will still be here, and I hate to sound like a broken record, but you remember that adage that is thrown around here in damn near every biz related thread? "Adapt or die!" it's not just a canned response, it holds a shit-ton of merit!
Porn will ALWAYS be around, has been since the dawn of time, humans are animalistic by nature (some more then others) and our desires will always push us, Long Live Porn lol
-Loki-