great comment from story on youporn
 

Article Here It looks like an older one, but the comments are great.

Best comment so far from what I've read:

"Once again we must all remove our hats and marvel at the sheer idiocy of tech investors.

Only in the hilariously illogical world of the Internet can someone brag that their free product offering has an enormous number of "customers".

Let me give you a little tip McDonald's -- give away free cheeseburgers and you just might be able to sell the whole shebang to some toxic hedge fund at Bear Stearns for a healthy margin.

And it never ceases to amaze me that people laud YouTube as being "successful". Heh. With a billion dollars of muscle and zero requirements for profitability, exactly who couldn't be "successful"?

By the way -- in the offline world -- it's illegal to give product away below cost in the hopes of gaining market share. We call that "dumping". It's illegal because it puts the legitimate companies out of business.

It's a good thing we've reinvented a whole new form of logic for our online world. Things work so much better now that we've done away with silly concepts like monetization, profitability and copyright."

pretty much nails it. :1orglaugh

Agree.

But is it really illegal to sell stuff below actual value?

Haha, sell below market value..and it's illegal... What a moron.


I was trying to find the Copyrighted content on YouPorn, anyone else have any luck?

you're joking right? most of the stuff on just the first page of youporn is copyrighted, or is that Lela Star's own home movie etc.?

Atleast the guy doesnt hide the fact that hes giving away everyones livelyhood. Its almost like hes laughing at us.

Did you look at it? It's a Video provided by a Sponsor, legally..

From what I can tell the content on YP is DVD's, from providers right here on GFY... All legally purchased or Sponsor provided content.

Now, I'm not saying 100% of every thing is legal, but I sure haven't seen or heard anyone bitching about them to tell me otherwise.

sellin stuff below market value has been a successfull busines model for a very long time already

I believe the person making the comment is referring the the US Anti-Dumping Laws which have been in legislation since the 1910s or 20s (if I recall correctly). I have really only seen it applied to international trade and imported goods, but I think I see the correlation he is trying to draw. All in all, I agree with most all of what he is saying...