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Originally Posted by Blingbaby
Agreed. Everyone with a camera and a hard on is a fucking porn star these days. Most are ridiculously bad too and the producers wonder why it's not selling.. hardly even worth pirating most of this shit
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It started to slide downhill long before then.
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Originally Posted by charlie g
Problem is money. Why spend extra cash to develop a plot and scenery when your shit is gonna get ripped and put on every tubesite before you can recoup the costs to make it flick.
I personally miss those 70's and 80's flicks too...but I dont see them coming back anytime soon.
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Right answer, wrong reason.
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Originally Posted by PornAddict
Porn turned to shit when companies (both internet and DVD) decided they had to have 20+ websites/video lines in niches they don't really give a shit about just so they can keep pumping out crap to compete with the others pumping out even more crap.
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Here's the reason but quoting the wrong examples.
Porn went down hill when video publishers started to think the way to get more sales was to put out more titles. It worked for a very short time, then the sales leveled and the video companies saw the solution as putting out even more titles.
The result was budgets to shoot and prices paid for content plummeted. For instance, from getting $25,000 for a title European or US publishers were offering $10,000. So the potential earnings dropped and dropped. You simply can't shoot anything with any imagination, innovation or porn quality for that price.
It all became a treadmill, churning out content with little intrinsic value.
Some companies resisted this urge and have held onto their market much better than those who gave into it.
The Internet continued this trend. PornAddict shows how. Back in the early days we were shooting sets that were worth $3,000 each. Which we still own. And many of the big sponsors were offering $300 for a set and a video. Then amazed we were not jumping for their offer.
