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Originally Posted by Nathan
Gleem, I have actually never heard of the stuff you mentioned in the first paragraph. Do you happen to have more info on this? I would love to know since that obviously seems insane...
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The person who gave me insights into the backroom deals is dead, no joke. I took it with a grain of salt since it was all hearsay but it explained why some deals that seemed to make no sense happened.
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Originally Posted by Nathan
And I have said time and time again, we are making sure our tubes work WITH the industry and not AGAINST. And for the people that claim we are not, just look at for example the amount of sponsored content on the tubes today vs. just 3 months ago. HUGE difference.
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Your tubes work with the big studio production industry by buying licenses, not so much the online industry for producers making their own paysites... maybe I'm wrong, but the more free you give away the less incentive to buy... same ole' argument I know, but as you know 1:50 was considered average 10 years ago when there was just AVS sites showing 5 - 10 censored nudes on the tour. With the advent of each model that gave away more porn general traffic conversions got worse ... AVS -->TGP -->MGP -->Tubes
Your tubes are the biggest, so doesn't help adult webmasters much, unless I'm missing something.
Now the tube cat is out of the box, there's no way to put it back in, and the adult webmaster industry sees this and now it's a "me-too" deal as a last chance to survive and it's a race to see who can give away the most to get the most traffic. If you do it legally, that's fucking awesome, you are one step better than the illegal ones, but you still caused us small webmasters plenty of harm.
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Originally Posted by Nathan
Regarding Steve, if what he has said again in this thread just a few minutes ago is correct, then I have no problem at all. I just have a problem with suing torrent downloaders since I think its a tricky business, its dangerous for the industry's image, and it will do more harm than good.
Suing uploaders or the people that actually took the content from steve and started the seed, I have absolutely no problem with and I am completely in agreement with steve (whether he likes hat or not <G>)
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I don't think the industry has any image that can be harmed in this way, we are all just smut peddlers to them, not like people are going to boycott porn.
