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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
The Internet is just another vehicle to deliver porn.
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Yes Paul...but it is the first time in all of history that porn has been accessible to everyone. And no, I'm not talking about "free" porn. I mean that for the first time in history...anybody with an internet connection could buy a membership and view hardcore porn.
That was not so easy before. Trust me. I've traveled all over the U.S. in bands throughout the 1980's and 1990's and 2000's. Most small towns don't even allow (by law) adult bookstores. And the few that do? It's a tricky thing trying to go there and hoping that none of your neighbors saw you.
And then what if your thing is fat girls? Or trannies? Or you're in a redneck town but you like black girls? Or you like to watch gay porn? Then you had to go through the embarrassment of picking up that video or magazine and walking to a counter and looking another person in the eye while you bought it.
The internet changed all of that.
And as far as giving stuff away...As a guy who made a whole lot of money with my tgp's...I think we hit a "sweet spot" back around 1998 and it extended all the way up to 2008 and was ruined when tube sites started running full stolen scenes and bit torrent and file sharing sites exploded stealing full members areas.
During that period of around 10 years...galleries were selling memberships like hotcakes. I was making so much money that I honestly couldn't spend it fast enough. And that's no lie.
Just like everything...there is a "sweet spot". And I believe that was it.
When we first opened up in 1996...we made our own galleries with "softcore" images. Not showing much. We made good money. But when we started using hardcore and later on video...it was like an avalanche.
It was just the right combination that made sales. Anybody can argue that all day long with "theories". But there were a handful of us that truly made stratospheric money with that "sweet spot".
Too little and you didn't get a sale. Too much and you didn't get a sale.
And statistics prove for me that we had it tweaked perfectly.
Then tubes and torrents and file shares fucked it by giving away EVERYTHING and not even worrying about selling porn sites anymore.
Unreal.
Those guys have no idea how much money they lost themselves. I still make a damn good pile of money on dating and cams and VOD. But it is not 1/20th of the money I was making as an affiliate of paysites as recently as the last part of 2007.
THAT is where the stupidity kicked in.
Manwin is making more money than ever now. Of course they are. Brazzers was never a big program. I don't know of any of the big guys back 4 or 5 years ago for whom Brazzers was a top seller. It just wasn't.
So of course all the money rolling in from their tube sites make more than they did before. But as we all know...little by little that is falling away as they eat themselves from the inside out like the cancer that they are.
And so now we see them using their ad company to serve ads on The Pirate Bay.
Sounds like desperation to me.