Paul, I saw your comments on the St. Buttricks Day clip on Brazzers. I also saw the votes from the members of ours for which this content was produced. I honestly do not give a rats ass if you find it bad. 80000 people viewed it within 7 days and 260 people voted for it, arriving to an avg of 9.01 of 10. That's all I need to see there.. so its completely irrelevant if you do not like the video, all that fact shows is that you lost your connection to what porn online is about.
All your arguements are flawed simply by taking a look at revenue that a company like Playboy or Private had in those "good times".. it really was not awesome... 200m in a year of PB, far less a year for Private. And you keep using at least PRVT as an example. Circulation for PRVT for example, all of year 2000 was 2.3m copies printed in total from 311 issues in total. That's Less than 8000 copies per issue on avg!! FAR from your "300k" figure. The biggest mag being Triple-X with a circulation of 518k in 38 issues just shy of 14000 per issue!
PRVT's Net Sales (ie, Revenue) in 2001 was only 33m USD. 2000 only around 22m USD. But you will come and say you keep talking about the 1990s ... well.. sorry, 1997, net sales for PRVT was only 10m USD.
PRVT also sold max 80000 DVDs per month, total thus being just shy of 1 million a year. Out of 462 titles in total it owned. So we are talking 2100 per title! NOT 10000!! And PRVT was one of the best selling companies out there!
All this info is taken from
http://www.prvt.com/investor-resources/ btw.
Penthouse was bought by Marc Bell who made most of his money in the IT industry btw. And he bought it for $1 plus all its debt on the books (as far as I remember, I might be wrong there though).