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Originally posted by baddog:
To answer your question though, Suze and Vivid make their money through licensed content.
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They both have affiliate programs. Before they had affiliate programs -- there content was stolen *much* more.
Racquel Darrian is a perfect example. In the old days Racquel Darrian was one of the most popular links on my site -- I sent out 10,000+ visitors/day to Racquel Darrian links -- I had links to galleries with every pic that every horny guy in the world had found, scanned, stolen, etc... There was no affiliate program -- there weren't any pornstar affiliate programs either. There was no incentive for anyone to purchase pornstar content. Just like there is no incentive to purchase Playboy content -- because you can't buy it! It was virtually impossible to buy pornstar content back then. Ask Steve from Pornqueens... I remember when he was one of the first guys to be able to find a pornstars CD... If I remember correctly he was pretty secretive about where he found it ;) The were a few guys selling pornstar photo sets for $5000 (haha).
It wasn't until the Racquel Darrian affiliate program came out that webmasters started pulling down their pics in favor of pics provided by the Racquel Darrian affiliate program.
So I think you are missing my point -- I'm looking at the big picture. If there were no affilate programs there would be a lot more sites with stolen content -- that's a fact.
W/o affiliate programs, the fans of the models and pornstars would be building sites with free stolen pics -- regardless of profits. Not APIC, not anyone can stop people from wanting to share pics of their favorite models, pornstars, etc... Just jump onto IRC and you will see hundreds of people trading pics. You can't stop it. Just like the music industry will never be able to prevent people from making mix CD's for their friends of their favotire "stolen" songs.
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