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Think about the people who are not complaining and look at what they are doing.
A lot of the people crying about low revenue now are bandwagon jumpers who jumped a bandwagon that was already coasting to a halt.
Consumers are not perceiving value in static content anymore. Still, the guys who are out there shooting fresh quality stuff are making a living, some are making a good one. I am talking about guys shooting fresh quality stuff, not guys who are doing blurry pics of meth whores and calling it "GF style"
Cam sites are not complaining, many of them are doing so well they are treating affiliates like shit because they reached critical mass long ago and don't need anyone to send them traffic.
Dating sites seem to be doing OK as well, haven't heard of any catastrophic failures in awhile.
I don't hear many Gay programs whining, although some card bangers offering gay content seem to be having difficulty.
The tube model relies on static content as bait to sell tangible goods (penis pills) and interactive entertainment (cams and dating) and also some upsell to premium (hi def) content delivery.
This model is working so well that (based on what I hear on this board) Manwin is able to license content it used to use without paying for it, going so far as to buy not only the licenses, but the license holding companies as well. Now why would they do that if they believed piracy was going to make all that content worthless? (that's a real question - not rhetorical)
So I think the world hasn't really changed that much, it's just that the short window where even a suck-ass loser could make a living doing shitty work is over, and the ones doing it right are making less - true, but that's the case in every industry right now except lobbying and big oil pretty much.
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