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Originally Posted by DWB
Try reading. I said there is no government regulation, and they don't need to because we're doing a fine job of destroying ourselves.
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The porn industry will never be destroyed. diminished in terms of $$$ yes. In terms of people looking at porn, that has never been higher. They just don''t pay to watch it. This still leaves the problem of millions of under 18s with access to everything this industry throws out. Even my 10 year old daughter knows there's free sex videos online. Fortunately she's been brought up not to be drawn by them.
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Free content in terms of short clips and photo galleries is NOTHING compared to 65,000+ free full length videos.
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We now know they were the first step to 2012. Even then they cost offline porn sales. Not it's online porn suffereing.
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Oh, I dunno.... maybe a little thing called 2257 (not holding my breath on that I will note). Change that and user uploaded content is gone overnight, as are most of the tubes and free sites. That is one example off the top of my head.
Why do you think the biggest tubes are all buying tons of content now? They know what will eventually come, and are planning accordingly.
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Piracy isn't the problem
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You don't know that. You have no idea what is coming around the corner or what Visa rules may come our way, or some child protection law that won't allow free explicit porn at all without a credit card. Point is, none of us have a CLUE what's coming, or not.
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If one law doesn't work, they will try another one and then another one. Passing laws is their job.
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That is where the traffic is today.
The future may be worse or better. None of us know. All we know is TODAY that is where the traffic is.
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And traffic is people, we lost that fact somewhere thinking they were sheep we could herd.
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They are here until something changes that makes them go away. Like I posted above, that could be tomorrow or in 10 years, and could come in all sorts of ways. Child protection, 2257, Visa / MC rules, the next SOPA, or what have you.
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you cannot stop politicians from trying. They might decide that if you want to do business in America or with American companies, you have to adhere to US laws. So if you want to take credit card payments on your site, US laws apply.
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Something will come after the tubes just as TGPs and MGPs before them. Count on that.
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Something to get more surfers who on average will spend less than they did before, is the most likely.
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Tubes are A problem. They are not THE problem. THE problem has many faces.
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The problem ultimately is the people who think they can control traffic, throw up crap sites with no real appeal and then dump 10,000s of surfers onto free porn to get a sign up. And every problem concerning sign ups is met with the same solution. More traffic, which means give away more free porn.
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The internet should not be lawless, just as the radio, TV and print media is not lawless. Right now it is. It's only a matter of time before that comes to a screeching halt and regulation is dropped on our heads. And we'll have no one to blame but ourselves.
I find it hugely ironic that you have a company like Manwin (and the other companies) who will put a warning page on their pay sites to "protect the kids" but have nothing on their tubes exposing children to an endless sea of hardcore porn. That will bite everyone in the ass somewhere along the ride.
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Laws will come, when they don't work more will come.