Hi Lee. Nice seeing you in Phoenix.
My two cents is that one day, the government is going to get smart and make everyone use .xxx domains if they have adult material on it. It would be so easy to control underage people from looking at porn. I really can't understand for the life of me why they haven't done it already.
As for partner programs, I think a lot of them will die. The ones that have real pay sites in them will survive. All these sites that are just tours are killing our industry. You must shoot your own content, keep it exclusive, and update 5 days a week.
Best site I've ever seen was
www.Busty-Amateurs.com. It was real, all our content was exclusive, we updated Monday through Friday, 3 picture sets and 2 videos every week. If you run a site like that, you will be successfull and it will keep your affiliate program afloat.