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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Jesus.
He isn't defending piracy. He is saying people like to blame piracy for their problems, when in all honesty, their problems stem from a shit site, a shit tour, shit content and laziness.
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The real problem for paysites isn't piracy. It needs to be looked at a lot deeper to find the real cause for the decline. IMO it was this.
Free porn.
Attitude towards customers.
Entry level for paysites and affiliates.
Piracy.
Free porn was always a thing that lost sales. It hit offline first and it would always grow, If BW got as cheap as it is today, then Tubes were inevitable. Look at traffic stats on piracy sites and Tubes to see where your customers have gone to.
Attitude towards customers has generally been poor in online. This led to card banging, cross sales and crap sites. People thinking they could buy some good scenes for the tour and crap stuff for the members area. We've all heard and read stories of how easy it is. Treat repeat customers badly, often enough and you lose them.
Entry level for paysites and affiliates it all took was a computer and a connection to be in the business. To open a paysite in 2005 wasn't nearly expensive enough, to open a good one was. But there were 100s of crap ones. John, it costs money to buy a decently designed tour, decent content and keep updating it. Then you're working at the beck and call of affiliates. Not that easy if you're not a big dog.
Piracy yes it's hurt the business. But look at the street from the other side.
You're a habitual buyer of online porn. You've had your card ripped, cross sold, bought memberships to sites where it was tough to cancel a membership or just a site with a nice tour ad samples and a crappy members area. In general you've been kicked in the balls too often.
Do you;
A Keep buying memberships?
B Find a few great sites and stick with them?
C Find Pornhub and Youjizz and stick with them?
D Instead of buying a membership and risk getting another kick, find the pirated site and download that for free?
We all know what many have chosen and we only have ourselves to blame.
And yes John people will always find other things to blame it on. Now a lot think it's the economy, even though online spending is booming. Ultimately it's easier than accepting the blame. Of course it solves nothing.