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Originally Posted by Konda
Why start a discussion if you have no idea of the current state of the industry and do not want to believe anything people say that do actually have a lot of knowledge of today's industry. It makes no sense. You think everyone that does not agree with you is lying or making things up.
The answer to your thread is Growing, but the ONLY reason you started this thread because you were hoping people would say Shrinking, which is obviously not the case...
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Here's my take on the industry.
Most of the planet can't afford to buy porn, leaving people in N. America, Europe, Australia and Japan as our markets. Lately China has come online so a new market but most Chinese can't afford porn.
All these countries had porn long before the internet, if not hardcore then softcore would suffice. A meat eater doesn't give up eating meat because only chicken is sold. So after offline buyers had converted to online buyers the increases in sales slowed down dramatically. Same with cam buyers, before cams most bought recorded porn. I predicted this 15 years ago.
What I didn't predict and only JT who started the first porn tube knew was tubes would change the industry by giving away free what we once sold. Ratios prove that.
The steady decline financially of the industry is obvious with all the small to medium companies closing, the large companies complaining about their movies being pirated because if free increased instead of reduced their bottom line they wouldn't care.
A little more in depth than just saying I know nothing and the industry is growing not shrinking. If anyone's income, the only accounts they have access to, it's because they've become better at what they do and picking up sales that use to go elsewhere. Until people do the accounts of Mindgeek to Pornnerd and comapre them to 6 years ago they're guessing, so what is their guesses based on? I've given my thoughts without insulting anyone.