Sure there are tons of people giving out free content, and it may be declining profits, but the real cause of this is the amout of webmasters that exist today compared to last year thsi time or the years before..
However, pay sites offer things free sites and tgps could never provide.. Movies, live shows, high resolution images, and the convience of not having to sift through all the junk out there on the net like popups..
Free sites in general cant afford $$ to host these items, and resort usually to lower quality images, and short movie clips.
So the free site with its free images isnt destroying the paysite world at all. In fact it is probably raising the bar, in pushing these guys to provide more live shows, more movies, and more quality images..
There may be tons of free stuff out there, but with it comes the demand for more as people get boared of just plain images.. The answer is the paysite..
And with all the competition now days and with the huge growth in adult webmasters, pay sites and free sites, this is the true cause of the decrease in revenue. There is a dilution and almost a saturation of paysites now days.
For these paysites to survive, they not only need quality content, but they need quality marketing, and that only comes from the quality FREE sites with the free images..
This dynamic is quite important, and the vaule of the free sites to the paysites is overlooked. Take away the free sites, all of a sudden all the paysites are on equal playing fields competing with one another.
Granted the large pay sites would find other means of marketing to the consumer, but the dynmaic of the free site feeding the paysite can never be matched by anyother means.
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[This message has been edited by boneprone (edited 05-10-2001).]