Why would you chose to sell a product when the product can be found for free
 

Its basic common sence why chose to sell something that's very easy to get it for free. Would you try and sell oranges across the road from someone giving them away? Think about it and ask yourself why we have such declining sales.

one, because the free stuff is being delivered illegally... it will get shut down.. just a matter of time

It's always been that way. And it probably always will...

Aren't you giving quite a lot of content away as a gallery submitter?

because making money is better than not making money?

Yes I am and I would prefer to have much less on gallery pages.

I hear you, and I couldn't agree more.

But what can one do?

Well I chose programes that care about there content or smaller programes that are not everywhere. There are programes out there that know you dont need thousands of affilates to make money so there invite only.

Cars are free too. You just have to hotwire them... :2 cents:

Easily. Value added services.
Why do people buy bottled water? It's the same water if not worse that you get from your tap, but costs more than petrol for the same volume.

Why do people pay to cut hair when everyone has scissors?
Why do people buy meals when they could cook them themselves?

It's all about service and quality.

Why would I buy a car when I can just go steal one? Hmm....
Why would I pay for WIndows XP when I can just go download a copy?
Why would I....

Blah... because I can, and I don't have the time to fuck around anymore like I used to when I was younger.

Very true, but what we are facing now is much worse than anything seen before...whole sites ripped and made available for free via several different channels of online distribution. Not just one, almost all major sites.

Why TGP traffic becomes worse and worse ? Because many people just use TGPs to find out what they want to download via rapidshare or torrent sites.

On top, spyware fuckers change affiliate codes to grab a big share of the surfers left that are willing to pay.

The answer is simple.

We'd be producing the kind of images we do anyways - regardless if we were selling them. Bondage/fetish is an integral part of our lifestyle.

Thankfully, there are still loyal customers out there who realize their membership helps continue to support our ongoing production.

Sure, there's a glut of free content out there - but webmasters often overlook the fact that some people like to feel 'part of the family' (so to speak)...part of the backstage crowd that gets to see behind the curtain. A sense of belonging.

I would argue that sales aren't on the decline, they are just on the "shift" and are spread out over a lot more people than they used to be. For example if you had 100K in traffic and would do 100 sales with it and now you are doing 80 sales you would say sales are declining. But somewhere there are a couple of new people that are now doing 10 sales each that have never done any before. so in the end there are still 100 sales being made, it's just spread out over 2-3 people now instead of just 1.

the amount of money the online porn industry makes grows every year, but so do the number of players.