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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
I will make you a bet that paysites will be around 20 years from now. Why? Because, in business, you need something to SELL. The tubes may partner with paysites (as some are doing now) but that is not the same as becoming or eliminating the content producers altogether (paysites).
Again, think cable tv. Sure, Fox produces its' own programming but also licenses it from other studios. But they do not 'buy out' and merge the studios or production companies. There are far too many of them. Tubes would have to buy out (or begin producing) thousands of niche paysites. Will never happen.
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Paysites started in 1997/1998. From then until now there have been very little changes to the overall model. Pay $19 to $35 a month for access to porn. It was like that in 1997 it's like that in 2016. You get videos and photos for that. Little else. Again nothing much has changed.
Now let's look at every online business. They've all MASSIVELY changed in the past 20 years. In fact most have MASSIVELY changed in the past 2 to 5 years. Paysites can not continue as they are. They must change.
What will happen to paysites operating exactly as they always have is going to be a gradual decline. For some it will be rapid and for others it will be slow. But the decline will happen.
That i am 100% sure of. There is no magical comeback for the current version of what a "paysite" is.
I think there is potential for a new generation of paysite to evolve and come out from this. The reality is more people than ever before are consuming porn. Someone has to create and produce that porn and they have to be paid for the work. How to make it all work is the magic question.
Charging $34.99 a month for 5 updates a week is not the future of porn. That is the past. Now what is the future???