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Originally posted by Mr.Fiction
I agree that surfers can find a lot of stolen content if they are willing to look, but that's a different issue than the free site debate.
When people talk about the free content issue, they always bring up The Hun, Sleazy, Sublime, etc. Those are not sites that promote stolen content, those are sites with legal free content. However, there is plenty of exclusive content that you cannot get from any free site (unless it's stolen.)
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Agreed.
And I agree that a free business model can co-exist with a paid model, in a healthy relation.
The biggest problem with most TGP's is that many of them hit the surfer with the title/heading tag already, making sure he knows that he can find 100000000000000 free pics and movies on there. Now the amount may vary and it's not always as huge as they want to tell the surfers, but it's there. And if a surfer hits 10-20 TGP's via tradelinks, he's pretty much indoctrinated with the fact that there's shitloads of free porn out there and that he probably never have to pay for porn again. This behaviour pretty much conditions the surfer into an anti-pay mindset and makes any remotely potential sale even harder to make.
Add to that all the galleries advertising free memberships and whatnot, and you've got yourself a veritable, lean, mean, freeloader-creating machine.
Porn caters to a repeated, easy-to-satisfy need. The need to get off. It's not like watching an old movie on a free network and planning on getting HBO so you can get all the premieres. The surfer wants to get off, period. And if he's found something to get off to on ANY TGP, good luck selling him a porn membership.
