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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The author of the articles offered a solution and I see no one here offering a solution that will work. Lots of crying about what we already know and some self promoting but no solutions.
The Adult Net went largely exclusive and it was not the solution, sales still fell.
The future for the industry is not to all go niche, it works for Mom & Pop sites and not for the big sites.
A lot of customers have rejected what we are selling.
So what's the answer?
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What solution did he propose? I guess I missed that.
Ok here's an anology. All these porn companaies are like blackmsiths 100 years ago. They did fine for along time when everyone used horses to get around, but then 100 years ago people started buying cars. Instead of accepting that and perhaps start selling tires the industry is acting like blacksmiths who try to get people to stop buying cars and go back to horses. Well that wasn't going to happen. And stopping tubes and torrents and free porn in general isn't going to happen either. If it was that easy it would have been done years ago. Now you can be a balcksmith that tries to still sell horseshoes and eventually go out of business or you can start selling tires.
The porn industy is just like the music and mainstream movie/TV industry and has it head in the sand and refuses to adapt because that means accepting the fact your product isn't worth as much as it used to be. For example eventually the music industry will have to realize that the money in music isn't from selling songs or albums. The songs will be used to promote the concert tour of the artist and thus be given out for free. I will be shocked if in 20 years music is actually still being sold.