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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
I am not bashing you champ. You know I love both you and Robbie. That doesn't mean we always agree. I was just seeing a lot of celebrations of late, and with what I see out there in the marketplace, I am not sure there is a lot of diversity left.
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That wasn't directed towards you, as I know you just asked a question. It was directed to those who continually say people who fight piracy think the glory days will return. But the irony of it all is, THEY are the only ones talking about the glory days returning.
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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
I am not sure it would make a dent in the grand scheme of things.
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I don't fight them to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. I fight them to make a difference for me.
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Originally Posted by Voodoo
Porn is not a utility. It's a luxury item.
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Porn is for guys to jack off to. Nothing more, nothing less. If they can get it for free, they will. If they have to pay, they will. Whatever is easier for them will win and whoever has their fantasy will get their click. It's not rocket science.
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Originally Posted by Voodoo
Free porn has been around since the dawn of the internet... You know, back in the BBS days? In fact, the free porn model has been around LONGER than the paid model. Don't think for a second that it's killing the industry. It INVENTED the industry!
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Then there are those of you who bring up the "porn has always been free" theory. Yes, you could always find free porn somewhere if you knew where to look. But most people didn't know where to look back in the BBS days and search engines did not favor sites giving away porn. If you didn't know where to look, you were not finding large amounts of free porn. BBS guys are the same geeks who moved on to torrents and never paid for porn in the first place. I'm more concerned about the new people getting online for the first time and hitting google looking for something I sell, but they can't find it because of 10 pages of tubes giving away everything for free.
This is a massive difference than the "old days" of free porn.
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Originally Posted by Voodoo
Those of you who are sitting around sulking about the Good Old Days obviously haven't been inventing anything new that makes money or testing new markets. Good luck with that venture!
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Yea, they have. They turned to piracy, card banging, and other illegal or unethical ways of making money.
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Originally Posted by xxxupdate
i started in online porn last September and im only seeing my sale's increase, i don't understand why people moan all the time about the good old days fuck i dont even make that much per month. Also with the amount of money people spend on things like cams is crazy i don't think porn is dead.
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You started in September of last year and you don't understand what people moan about? How many sales did you make last month? How many hours did you have to to work to make them? Whatever that number is, it used to be incredibly easy to make that many and more in a single day, with only working 1/4 of the amount of time you did. That is why they moan.
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Originally Posted by Robbie
Stealing isn't a business model.
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It is now.
And not only has stealing become a business model, it has become a celebrated business model.
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Originally Posted by Vjo
I never forget when I joined a fetish site promoted on this board (recurring thru ccbill) and it had 100-150 vids LOL
No wonder!
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Many micro-niche and fetish sites are small and lower content amounts are fine with members so long as they update. They are the sites still selling and rebilling today. You can't compare them to BanBros with 1000s of videos, because with the exception of a few sites, most of the sites are small, and their customers know that.