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Originally Posted by kane
Because they are smarter than most porn people.
For years online porn has been run by everyone and their brother. Small 1 and 2 person operations (I am one of them). So instead of just having a few companies that have to agree with how to run things (IE there are only a handful of major record labels and only a few companies that have the capability of putting together an iTunes like program) you have thousands and thousands of people who are running the industry.
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Sorry, I disagree with you massively here. There are around 5 companies that produce by far the majority of porn. Exactly the same as music and movies. Sure, there are thousands of indy producers, but the bulk of the stuff is controlled by very few people.
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Originally Posted by kane
The other factor is you have to get the record labels to go along with it. If they won't let you sell their product at the price you want to sell it at, you have nothing to sell. Here I can buy content from any number of content brokers and do with it as I please. So with music the main players involved are smart enough to try to keep the prices around the same and compete on a features base (IE Amazon sells DRM free MP3s which iTunes does not - although that may be changing) instead of a price base where as we have a very documented history of competing simply by giving more away for free.
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iTunes has sold DRM free for years. Obviously you have to get the studios to go along with it. But everyone told steve it was impossible to do with music movies and tv. He managed it. Somehow.
I'm not saying this is the saving grace of the industry, but it is an interesting thought. Getting pirates to pay you money. Willingly.