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Originally Posted by geedub
I will agree that piracy is now more mainstream and google indexing everything doesn't help anything... I just think about people like my father, doesn't even know what an mp3 is, surfs the internet every day and most importantly, buys shit online. I think there are still fuck tons of guys out there just like him. Piracy is dominated by people who can't even legally buy porn, gotta remember that as well  |
I agree. Pirate sites are full of 15 year old boys.
But the problem for our industry is this...my tgp's used to be full of those same teen boys. And we showed them just enough stuff to make them want to be able to get inside the members areas. So by the time they were old enough to get a credit card they were ready to buy.
That don't happen now.
The 15 year olds in 2008 who started on pirate sites are now adults who don't even think porn was ever anything BUT free.
And of course there are still porn sites that offer something worth buying that is better than the free generic porn. But man...it sure killed affiliates of pay sites. I personally lost right at 7 figures a year in affiliate money I was making selling paysite memberships.