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*Me appearing for the defense*
Here's a view of the other side of the coin.
We know the online porn game is shrinking, the smaller guys are being squeezed out and the bigger ones demand small % on processing and most have CCbill at the bottom of a cascade. Added to that is the incessant stream of threads about them not converting.
All this must be hitting their bottom line. They have to look for new revenue streams. Does this give them a new view on the situation?
Maybe the business from the file lockers is so good it's keeping them in business. Extreme still think about it, would you prefer they close up or greatly reduce their business?
Long term. Without a huge change in the laws, online porn is as good as doomed. It simply can't compete with the huge amount of free legal, semi legal and pirated porn. The tipping point was the day the BW price dropped to a level where giving it away to sell ad space was better than selling memberships.
Free porn needs to be so tame, they will have to pay to jerk off before online porn is saved. Who would bet that after all the paysites are as good as gone or shriveled to an insignificance, piracy will still be there.
</thinking deeper than the obvious>
Flame away.
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