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Originally Posted by ytcracker
agreed - if it was my primary source of income, i suppose i might feel differently.
i think a malleable business model is absolutely crucial in the adult industry - realistically, at the beginning of the internet people consistently bitched about free porn ruining the industry. i don't see this as much different - the people who are downloading the torrents and are smart enough to understand the technology generally are broke college students anyway. as with anything else, you need to incentivize your product. girls gone wild has made an absolute killing and their shit is pirated to hell and back - how they market and their selling model is what created their capital.
that said, i turned over all of my adult sites to my partners for personal reasons and now focus primarily in mainstream arenas. most of what i deal in can't simply be downloaded off the internet en masse, so again my perspective is one of hindsight.
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the music industry did alot to scare people away from downloading mp3's but the problem only stoppedbeing as big when they offered a faster better alternative.
when mp3's first came about there simply wasnt any easy way to get your music to your computer, infact they had handhels mp3 players before the first mp3 was legally sold.. that would be like having ipod video player videos before the adult industry sold ipod video s( whoops
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u gotta stay with technology