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Originally Posted by corvette
i think it was low-cost bandwidth that make it profitable to put content up for free and just monetize off of the the ads/upsells...then the perception became that paysites were overcharging because you could get similar content for free
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Very good point because that also lowered the barrier to entry to pretty much anyone. The fact that any unscrupulous asshat can throw up a site for next to no money down has definitely attracted plenty of incompetent, unethical or otherwise undesirable 'business owners' to the industry.