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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Thanks for the heads up mate. Not Damian.
1. Trying to sell the same crap porn at a lower price might work. Try it without affiliates and there will be something left in the pot.
Doing it with affiliates and the massive costs of driving traffic and it's a non starter. Even Tubes need to make money to pay the bills.
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The question is can you (or whoever is producing this porn) generate enough traffic without affiliates to sell enough porn to make it worth your while? I would guess for many companies the answer is no they couldn't.
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2. Do those who have stored tons of illegal porn want to put it on a another platform. Do people who don't pay for porn actually store it or just look at it and delete it?
Porn in general isn't worth collecting and a lot of music is.
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I think this is misconception. Everyone I know who views porn on at least a semi-regular basis has a collection. They keep it. They might get rid of some of it, but they keep most of it just like they keep music and mainstream movies.
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3. It's still pre-recorder porn. Just cut price pre-recorder porn.
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4. How does delivering a better version of a pirated video collection, mean the pirate now owns it?
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That is what Apple is offering up. I guess we will see how it works for music.
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These are the solutions to the decline of online porn.
A. Stop selling pre-recorded crap porn at a price dictated by the cost of traffic.
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So you suggest only live cam style shows or streaming live shoots? You shoot porn. Do you think customers are going to want to sit through set changes and lighting changes and hearing directors tell people what to do? If you just set up a webcam and stream it live and let the actors do what they want then what about those who like a higher grade of porn and not just some amateur looking stream?
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B. Build an industry that's more interested in selling to customers than generating massive amounts of traffic so 1-2,000 will buy something.
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The problem is we gave the customer what they wanted instead of giving them what we wanted them have and now we are paying for it
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C. Make customers the most important person, not the affiliates.
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This goes back to my earlier question. If you can generate traffic on your own, great. If not the affiliate is just as important to you as the customer is.
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D. Stop thinking that you need to give away porn to sell porn.
Or just watch the decline increase. A few will buy up what's left of any worth and end up with the decline.
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Very true. The problem is that for this to happen you would need the industry to work together and that is like herding cats. It just won't happen. Short of the industry just drying up and dying on the vine there will be no sea change anytime soon. You could shoot a very specific niche and control your content so at least you had limited control.