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A major source of blame is the availability of cheap digital equipment. This allows for anyone with a few hundred bucks and some females to become providers.
Next was the idea of content brokers. This was and prolly still is just another way to rip off providers. Of course not all are bad just the majority.
Relaxed licensing also is a major role. Since the vast majority of providers seem to use the same basic license which is very outdated to say the least. It has left them wide open for getting fucked in the ass. From unlimited domain usage which not only makes tracking legit licenses a bitch, it also cuts sales from large affiliates. To how the images or video can be used. This covers hosted galleries, build your own front end type paysites and avs sites, and sponsors giving away content. Most providers licenses are just bad business.
Influx in European providers. They have considerably lower production costs and there are easier ways to pay them. Only problem they have is trust and of course videos that often are not in English.
Theft plain and simple. Providers are ripped off every day of the week all year round. Why license when nobody gives a shit if you steal it.
Catering to the TGP submitter. Mostly covered above in the license paragraph. Submitters serve a purpose to paysites not to providers. Now most just bypass providers all together. They saturate the content and make it basicly valueless. They should be paying a premium for this ability or the paysites should be paying a premium so they can give it to them.
Providers also do not seem to recognise their own value either. They short themselves and sell way to damn cheap.
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