Of course as Paul Markham would say
more traffic and giving more away will lessen the decline for those with lots of content to give away.
But they (major old progs) can stop spamming my inbox cause to sell their site when they are leveraging all their content on the tubes is rediculous.
Yes the affil is dead (for THAT paysite, not all) if the paysite gives it all away which they almost all do now.
Go for the short term HIGH traffic and profits or hang in there and keep your content sealed for long term growth. Obviously they have done the math and now days it is all about giving it all away in one last deperate hodge podge mass exodus of free porn to get more traffic.
Paul is RIGHT on that. It may take a few years but porn is NOT gonna sell better unless major policy by the govt stamps out piracy and that is doubtful. And if the owner gives it away for traffic then it is not piracy but legal.
Only thing keeping me from having a rip site? When I think about it.. nothing. Noone will do shit if I set one up. Maybe a c&d or two. No prob.
It is where the money is now days.
From day ONE in adult when we used to circle jerk surfers and blind link the piss out of them and we were lieing and being dishonest to them and one step ahead of the game (law as it were) has always made you the most money.
Nothing has changed. Just the stakes are a bit higher if ya dont want c&ds or be thought of as a "bad guy" I guess.
Money (oron) talks and BS (your morals) walks. If they cut me a deal tomorrow making me 6 figs I would say goodbye to morals immediately as would most of you.
The dirty secret is to be a medium pirate today. Not Long John Silver. Then youll never get sued. And if you are smart you can always remain Judgement Proof.
Fuck um. Play hard ball with their content. They obviously dont care if you are in the soup line.
Every dog for themselves as we all sell the increasing worthless commodity.. porn in one last attempt to give more than the other guy. VALUE still sells. Surfer could care less about morality.
As did WE at one time. (circle jerks, cc banging, cross sales)
Not pretty but how I see it.