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Originally Posted by Sausage
Fair comments RawAlex, and I definitely agree with your reasoning. I think of web 2 as "You do all the work, we keep all the money".
Though my thoughts are with the massive explosion of popularity with web2 style sites, I don't see how this can be stopped. You stop and punish the early ones seeking to work with and actively engage the adult industry, then you end up with a whole heap who just distance themselves from us and give nothing back. Porn advertisers will always chase those who have traffic, whether they admit to it openly or not... so revenue will never be a problem.
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Well, my thought has been that smart operators would move to sites that LOOK web2.0, but deliver a level of content more in keeping with what we have developed in the past for promotional sites.
My fears at this point is that it is the dating sites and similar that are paying for this to happen. They have no downside and all upside in sponsoring these sorts of sites, and even the "good" sites like pornotube and snizzshare are dependant on the dating sites to make the revenue model work out. For me, that revenue there is paying to dillute the porn product. So yeah, there is traffic, but a bunch of it isn't going to the porn sites, but somewhere else - net loss to porn, because the people ate your samples and had dinner somewhere else.
It is an interesting situation. Getting the obvious ripoff sites out of the same is key if there is any hope that this stuff will work out at all.