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Originally Posted by Mutt
what a fucking joke - porn consumers as well as music consumers NEVER EVER and NOT NOW either had a problem with the price of music and porn sites. No more than any of us complain about the price of anything. I bought vinyl, cassettes and CD's I liked from 8.99 to 16.99 and didn't sit there feeling like the music industry screwed me over. Sometimes I'd buy a CD and yeah, two songs were good and the rest shitty - I blamed the band not the record company
The pricing issue is a NON ISSUE - it's an EXCUSE, A JUSTIFICATION, A LIE that thieves and brokeass losers use to take what isn't theirs.
Lower pricing isn't the solution to anything- ask the programs who tried selling porn memberships for 9.95 - Lensman and PlatinumBucks- how that worked out for them.
There is ONE problem that is destroying the paysite industry and that's PIRACY. And the law which was supposed to protect copyright owners is so fucked up that it does the complete opposite - it makes stealing content profitable and bulletproof liability wise.
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pricing *wasn't* the issue in the past. People didn't mind paying for it before because they had no choice but to pay for it or they couldn't see it. It is simple supply and demand. The demand was high but the supply (free) was virtually non existent. Now the demand is still high but the supply (free) is 10x higher.
now that money is tighter for a lot of customers and your entire member's area is free blasted across the net... pricing is now an issue. It's the issue of why pay to join this site to see her videos when i can go to this tube site or torrent and see them for free. People have options now free or pay. Before they never had options. Their only options before was a couple 30 second soft core clips and a hand full of pictures for free or an entire member's area with 1000's of hour long hardcore videos for $30 a month. They had no choice but to pay to see the good stuff and lots of it.
You really can't compare music theft to porn theft. People can't steal concert tickets, they not stealing the dvd jacket and art work, the merchandise the band's name on it etc. Porn is a lot different. The member loses very little if any "experience" watching the video clip in your member's area or on a tube site. You buy a CD for $20 and you own it for life and can listen to it as many times as you want opposed to paying $30 to see 98% of the porn your site offers at one time and then paying $30 every month just to get 1% - 2% more in updates.
The laws wont change anytime for porn, maybe (maybe) for music but not for porn. The people who could change the laws don't care about porn and the people getting it for free certainly aren't going to be pushing for it.
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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
It may be rough for awhile, but the industry has an invincible ally on it's side - Market Forces. Hot chicks are hot chicks and hot chicks will always find a way to get paid. If the industry does indeed end up bottoming it out, the quality of talent will decrease to a point where people will have no choice but to start paying for the highly protected content of top talent and then the economic cycle will repeat.
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maybe 10 - 15 - 20 years from now. How many people will be able to hang on that long as sales continue to drop each year ?
There is so much quality porn (videos) out there for free right now if someone started watching it 24/7 it would take them 50 years to watch it all if not longer.