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Originally Posted by raymor
That's extremely interesting. I suppose it makes sense, when someone feel things are getting even worse they'll tend want to hold on to what money they have, be hesitant to spend it. When they think more money is coming, that they don't have to worry about their job being next on the chopping block, they would feel more free to spend a bit.
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It affects myself as well, after 3 days with good sales I find myself browsing for a new house on the web and when sales go down again start telling myself again that my current house is fine and I really consider myself a not so very materialistic person, I'm absolutely not a shopping freak.
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Originally Posted by raymor
Perhaps as the economy recovers in a year or five we'll see more of a recovery in adult than we have been expecting. The whole free content thing I've been hearing people bitch about since 1997, so it does seem there is something else going on (though pirates don't help).
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It's a factor but there are so many other factors like content quality and quantity, market saturation, new internet consumer markets like Russia, India and China.
I don't think a porn company can get out of business due to the piracy problem alone. The whole industry is negatively being affected by the piracy, yes, but even with all the free porn available on the web, someone who's really into porn and has a credit card, will pay for porn sooner or later, I'm totally convinced of that. Most people are still paying for water as well, even though most people can get water for free at the nearest river or lake. So if a porn company goes out of biz today, I would say it's mainly due to poor content, and that could be technically poor, or models not being pretty enough, or content that's simply not unique enough.