Originally Posted by Lassitor

The payoff with "free" or Open Source is with the customization that comes at a stiff price tag. However, this has not always worked well since there is this sort of attitude out there that once something is free then everything related to that product should be free as well. It is also my experience that when someone is insisting to develop with a Open Source system and free software that they have no money to begin with to spend on development.

The Free Porn model, much like the free news or anything out there that gives value for free, but then markets to the viewer with ads has sort of fizzled. Viewers are simply not clicking on the ads or if they do they are not buying.

I had a muse the other day; what if every single adult website took down its free content and insisted that the viewer pay? I bet the viewer would pay and not go away. But you see, every site has to do this or its a no go.