LA Times: Internet Porn is gonna die off in 2008
 

I know alot of on and offline Adult companies are and have been going out of business. :(

"The success of commercial porn. Last year may have marked the beginning of the end of the Internet's greatest financial success story: hugely profitable pornography. While the mainstream media spent billions of dollars and nearly a decade trying to make a buck off the Internet, the porn industry raked in cash from the moment Al Gore invented the thing. But with the rise of such free sites as YouPorn (the YouTube of the pornography business), the online subscriber model is imploding. DVD sales are plummeting too, and the adult video business is actually laying off workers (no pun intended). YouPorn is now the most-visited adult site in the world, and its traffic is growing at nearly 40% a month."

/http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-oe-goldberg1jan01,1,4505112.column



Discuss.

Blah blah blah blah

That's what I say.

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that's a fucked up link........

There is no money in porn.. duh

bumo, tht wud be some shit tho

It will become harder to make a buck in internet porn, but it won't be dying off anytime soon.

Adapt and prosper.

YouPorn is the most viewed porn site? Greater than the hun?

megarotic.com is the most visited adult site not youporn, that guy obviously knows shit if he cant even get his alexa ranks right.

yeah, no shit. Don't know how that happened. took it right from the article.

I suck at the interweb.

Since when did Al Gore "invent" the internet? Didn't he just "OK" it's general usage?

Fuckin' ignorant writers.

adapt to tube scripts

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I wonder if YouPorn is profitable now, with dating, cams, casino revenue.

I agree Jaysmoke! :D

There will be queues outside McDonalds, lots of people filling employment forms.

That's pretty dumb though. If "Internet porn is gonna die off" where are the tube sites going to get their content? From their ass??

gis ees

Please read the above backwards.

I hope the Al Gore thing is a joke.

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Yeah and we need more and more mainstream media with an incredible reach reporting about this to give their viewers / readers a tip on free porn - idiots..

from an affiliates perspective, it will cost more to earn less

HAhahaha what a whack ass article....

but this:
"the porn industry raked in cash from the moment Al Gore invented the thing." ...was good humor!

should end that with the line from Southpark about eating food via shoving it your ass

"and we base this on absolutely nothing"

Very tough to adapt to a market where someone is offering your products for free.. :2 cents:

its all just a phase really.

Post a working link, would you?

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedi...4505112.column

Business models are changing for certain, but the Internet - as revolutionary as it is - will not kill the world's oldest profession. And YouPorn will eventually die off as well if this industry does, because without us, they will have no content to steal and lets face it, not everyone is into "person next door" scenes. There are some things that only a porn studio can do. The old business models are going away and once again, there is a chance for porn to rebirth itself.

How is that? If your business model is outdated, sure.

Yeah, only 9-10 people will be earning all the money left and you won't be one of them for sure.

The business model is to invest to create something unique, market it to get it in front of the eyballs of the potential customers and try to sell it to them - that's the "outdated" business model I am talking about..

That article is comedy

Time for all paysites to DRM their shit. That's where these tube sites that post full videos get their stuff. If they had to encode and upload all their own stuff, it just wouldn't work. So nothing is going to change till we take the steps to protect our content. Till then cry as much as you want on gfy, doesn't help anything.

Has YouPorn been sued for copyright infringement?

Thats funny....

It was Pornotube aka AEBN sued by Vivid recently from what I remember..

Eventually the UN is going to take control of the internet and start fucking with countries that don't go after pirates.

Porn 2.0 - sponsored by Various, Inc. ?