Originally Posted by Paul Markham

Been saying it for a while. Offline porn is a very very hard business these days, a few shop chains still make great money just look up Beate Uhse and Ann Summers for the sort of money in offline porn today. Imagine what it was before the Internet. Then multiply it by every shop in those countries, then carry those across to other major countries and you get an idea of what porn was worth. People looking at "Privates" DVD sales as a guide are idiots. It's like looking at Aden's turn over and saying this is the size of porn.

Online has been in decline for years, the number of shooters who were giving up shows that. Then sites closing, then problems getting paid, etc. You simply can't keep giving away free porn and leap frogging each other in the race to give away the most, without effecting over all sales.

In a famine, the strong can grab food from the weak, so the weak die first. If the famine continues, the strong eventually feed off each other. Then they die. The only thing that saves them is food and an end to the famine.

Aden that approach hasn't made money, except for those selling 1,000s of the CDs since 1999. Ask Z masters what they made from their discs. Ask me what I made from selling non exclusive, it will shock you. Your route leaves the shooter with nothing to live off, my route allows me to stop working and still take money over 3 years later.

However I totally agree with you about a more savvy customer requires better quality. This has been something I've said for years. Problem was getting sites to pay the price. There were porn markets who out paid online by a factor of 10 times.