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Old 10-06-2012, 09:21 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer View Post
I agree its a problem. But what so many want to willingly ignore is that these "problems" were always there. There was always stolen content, there was always free content and so on. People used to pay for only pictures because everyone was on dialup. And thats all that was out there... millions of tgp galleries full of free pictures. No one failed when they were selling access to 1,000,000 pics by using 1000s of the same galleries to sell them.

People talk today about "free content" being a problem as if "free content" never existed until recently. It's the height of idiocy in my opinion.
It's all about volume. Offline the free content was probably 0.05%, not counting shared between friends. Online it could be 99.5%. Don't argue stats as you know my point. The Internet was simply never able to grow the consumer numbers to match the losses.

As online guys were thinking all is fine, offline were suffering. Now there's little offline left to suffer all the pain is for the online side.

No matter how much you adapt, your statement on that is wrong, no one ever adapted to not giving away free porn. They adapted to giving away more free porn. And that is adapting. Everything about business is adapting, even if it's getting better. Or looking fot a cheap shooter in Czech.
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