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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Free porn was inevitable, but not in the quantities we have today. Yes you can give away samples. Like the girl in the supermarket giving out biscuits. What you don't do is give away so many biscuits there's no need to buy. Which we did.
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What you are forgetting is the magic of the internet. It is an instant portal where you can shop at any supermarket in the world. And the most busy supermarkets will be the ones that give the most shit away. It's human nature.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Today free porn can't be stopped. The pirated stuff will be everywhere soon. In the early days it could of been stopped. And those online would of made so much money they wouldn't care. Robbie wouldn't be bitching about pirated porn. He'd be surfing it from his yacht in the Bahamas. Moored right next to Roald's.
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Yes and no. The nature of the business is cannibalistic. To get the sales you must have the traffic, so it couldn't be stopped. The people in the yacht now understand the value of the free porn mentality and have learned to harness the power.
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Paying affiliates 10% max, not giving them tons of free content, tools, hosting, etc. Or doing all the affiliate work in house.
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Again, this is/was the eventuality of the business. For programs to get customers through there supermarket doors they HAD to give away enough biscuits. Programs not doing so were losing business to the ones that were. In the early days, the affiliates were the traffic.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I suggested that on another board and another poster replied "They couldn't afford TGPs without support and big payout." Imagine that, an Adult Internet without 1,000s of TGP sites with millions of galleries. We would of ground to a halt.  |
Again, this is/was the eventuality of the business. For programs to get customers through there supermarket doors they HAD to give away enough biscuits. Programs not doing so were losing business to the ones that were. In the early days, the affiliates were the traffic.
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But that's the thinking of online porn. They see affiliates as helping sales. I see them giving away free content to take away sales.
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In the beginning affiliates were the only way to get traffic Paul. The affiliates controlled the traffic and hence the customers. Now programs can generate their own traffic via tubes and the affiliate model is dying.
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Imagine a business where affiliates can't afford to be the barrier between the surfer and the supplier. I can think creatively enough to imagine how it would work.
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Me too. We're in that stage of the porn business now. Tubes is the answer and why the affiliate model doesnt make sense. But it still involves giving away copious amounts of porn in the most convenient way possible.
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The idea that men wouldn't come looking fr porn is silly and illustrates an ignorance of the porn business.
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Men are going to come looking for porn in the cheapest most convenient way possible. Those that supply cheap and convenient porn will have the attention of the masses of these men. Therein lies the opportunity for real porn marketeers. Online porn has become like 20th century television.
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