| Snake Doctor |
10-09-2007 11:42 AM |
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Originally Posted by Dollarmansteve
(Post 13210821)
The demand for porn is highly elastic (ie price sensitive). At a price point of zero demand approaches infinity.
What I was saying was the the relative demand is weak. For example, people will pay $2.99 per minute to chat with some hot slut on a webcam and spend $200 chatting. But, trying to get $200 out of a consumer to show them DVD porn is difficult. So, the 'tube' sites or whatever you want to call them have recognized this.. using the free porn (which has infinite demand) to push traffic to high-value sites.
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Ok I see your point, but when did theft become part of a viable business model?
IF these sites had to pay for licensing rights to use the content in this way, their profit would be gone. (because standard licenses don't allow content to be used in this way, so they would have to negotiate a broader, much more expensive license)
Also, MOST of the content that they're using isn't available for license, it's owned exclusively by the paysite. This is content they would never have on their site were they to obey the law (and if they did have it, it would be in much smaller amounts and not used to promote other products)
This would never be a viable business model if they weren't stealing content, and the fact that you're basically saying the theives are smarter than those of us that play by the rules is a little insulting. :2 cents:
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