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Originally Posted by Johny Traffic
Hits nail on head.
Thats the one thing I find so amusing. The companies actualy running the tubes and fucking over everyone and no one does shit. In fact, they come here with shitty contests and their threads get 100's of bumps and free advertising.
The reason these tube owners will win (not if) and everyone else will lose is because that is their business plan. But no one see's it. They want you out of business. They have the money to do it, the brains to do it. It is just business, not personal and they are better at business than everyone else. They dont want to be gfy buddies and they couldn't give a flying fuck what anyone thinks of them. It is just business.
They win. Everyone else loses. The affiliate model is dying and the guys killing it are cutting the affiliate out of the loop. They have the content, they now have the traffic, they have all the new surfers comming from the search engines, they have the publicity. Now all they need is for everyone else to shut up shop and they are done.
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Generally agree, but I see some potential for alternate endings.
1) DMCA loopholes closed, or 2257 expanded, to require anyone hosting porn to have IDs and releases, no exceptions. Seems somewhat likely (though not soon) since social conservatives will eventually make it back into power one day.
2) If this criminal environment of anarchy persists, you will start to see the same type of "competition" that exists in any unregulated underground business. In absence of legal conflict resolution, violence fills the vacuum. I'm surprised we haven't seen this yet, considering the scale of losses involved. Emotions run high, and thieves eventually steal from the wrong person. It may be an angry ex-webmaster turned vigilante, or a rival organization, but when there's big money at stake, and no rules or authority to turn to, history and human nature suggest that business gets bloody.
Either way, the guys who think they're smart and getting away with everything now probably won't get away with it forever. If they think there won't be repercussions, I think they're being dangerously naive. You fuck with peoples money, people do crazy irrational things. Personally, I wouldn't want to have to live looking over my shoulder like that.
