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Old 08-04-2007, 12:57 PM  
kane
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It doesn't seem to me that the industry is dying so much as it is moving. It started out in theatres and not a lot of people went because they didn't want to be caught in a porn theatre. Then home video came out and more people bought it because now they could get it and take it home, but there were still a lot of people that didn't want to be seen in a porn store. Mail order opened up a whole new avenue to those people. Somehow porn wasn't dirty if you bought it through a classy looking catalog. Now porn is available on your computer with full privacy. Nobody knows but you so it has exploded.

There are not fewer people buying, there are more. There isn't less porn being created, there is more. There isn't less money in this industry, there is more. The industry is not dying, it is growing and expanding. The difference is now the wealth of the industry is spread out over many people instead of few.

Look at it like this. Right now The middle eastern countries that control oil have a very small number of people that drill for oil and sell it. They make a truckload of money and most people that use the oil have no access to selling it or making any money off of it. What if along came a chance for anyone that wanted it to get into the oil business? You could work part time out of your house and do it all with little or no start up money. There would be a lot of people that would do exactly that. These people would compete with each other and the big companies and it would drive down prices. There would be no less oil being packaged and sold, for that matter there would be more actually more than before. There would be no less oil being bought, there is probably going to be more, it is simply that the wealth of the oil is now spread out over a larger area.

The industry will never die. Some within it may die off because of changing delivery systems, but the industry as a whole is going to do nothing but grow. As broadband becomes widely available and more and more countries get wired it opens up that much more of an audience.
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