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Originally Posted by Robbie
What do you do for a living?  |
Spam search engines. I still do cams and dating - content that can't be stolen.
I won't lie, I made my living from selling porn sites for many years (via SEs mostly). But in my experience it is very true that porn and the adult industry in general is shady and immoral as fuck, on both the traffic and content sides.
Yes I know you are going to jump in and provide a litany of the fine, upstanding and well adjusted people you know in the porn industry. But I have spent enough time around the adult industry to know that a majority of people in it (present company excepted) are basically fucked in the head perverts who would whore their own mother for a buck.
Bit of a bummer if someone is heavily invested in producing content and they see their livelihood going down the toilet because technically and legally savvy operators are taking their shit and profiting on it without you seeing a dime. But at the same time said person is building a livelihood around taking smutty pictures and videos... There might be demand for it because of base human nature, but it's not exactly highly creative and world-enriching stuff.
So personally, since I only work on the traffic side of the equation, I find the hand wringing quite amusing. The writing was on the wall for general porn a long time ago. The nature of technology and the particular viewership of porn makes fighting piracy an impossible battle.