Why not look at the situation from this point:
TGPs exist in not a fantasy world. They follow the same rules as any other aspect of this business. So it's all about profit and expences.
Will it be reasonable to post in TGPs if your profit does not cover bandwith costs or if you have more profitable way to go? And how long TGPs will exist without fresh galleries every day? Since we do not see anything like TGP dieing currently it tells of one thing only: TGP posting is profitable.
Not for everyone of course - nobody can give any kind of guarantee that your efforts will be repaid. That's the matter of content quality and selection as well as your marketing talents.
TGPs were inevitable because of growing competition and they play their role in business - otherwise they just would not appear. So they are neither good nor bad themselve - they appeared by objective reasons and only objective reasons can get them disappeared or change business model. No whinings or complaints can help. We just have to live with that if we want to stay in business.
Just because of that I'd not say TGPs are killing the biz. Let's remember how many programs were running in 97-99 and compare with current numbers. Let's consider most of later surfers are not from US but they surf our sites as well. Let's consider newer chargeback rules and scrubbing followed by them. So... do you still insist that TGPs are the main reason of ratios go down?
