Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Porn will never die, just not be as profitable as it was. Earnings will shrink and shrink until it's a shadow of what it used to be.

However I wonder if the porn would of survived the Internet or was the shrinking inevitable?

What cold of turned it around or stopped happening what did happen?

Prior to the Internet the entry level was high. Getting a magazine printed and distributed stopped most from trying. Even Video needed a huge run of duplications to bring down the price. 500 copies was an expensive run and then with the box covers, boxes and selling the title to the shops it was out of most peoples reach. Some like me sold to magazine and Video publishers, but the bar was generally high.

The Internet changed all that. Suddenly anyone with a minimum knowledge of how to create a site and put it up could be a porn publisher. They could steal, shoot or buy content, build a site, host it and there it was. They were porn publishers.

So 1,000s got into the game where there were 100s. And all of a sudden the only problem was finding enough people to buy from their site and not one of the 1,000s of other sites was the only problem to making the site profitable.

When BW costs started to fall the only factor, other than content, that did cost money before a sign was made. Made opening sites free or paid easier.

When speeds increased and BW fell to what it is today the dye was cast. Piracy didn't help, but Manwin and others can afford to give away legal porn to get a sale on penis pills or a few on their sites to pay the cost of free porn.

Now for those who say porn earnings are greater than they have ever been. Prove it. Don't just point to one or two companies. Prove retail sales of porn today are bigger than they used to be. A Porn video used to sell for $30 a magazine for $10. The turnover of Wicked, Private or Hustler was the turn over of the production side of the business.