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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
However I was not talking about the theft issue, which is wrong, I'm talking about those who keep going on and on about the decline of the Internet porn business. When they really mean the decline of their income from the business.
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Paul, if the pie is artificially made smaller, then everyone's income drops, except for the people who have figured out how to get a double helping, and those are the guys stealing and robbing everyone blind.
Ask your friends in the magazine business, or ask the people in the DVD business - the internet really hurt their businesses, but the internet generated huge increases in total porn sales. I don't see the total porn pie getting bigger because of tube and torrent sites, but it is looking to be much, much smaller. More and more of the sales are going to third party non-producers, who are laughing at the people buying your content because it is an expense they don't have.
You should know yourself. How much was an exclusive shoot 5 years ago? how much today? At a straight line, how much will it be tomorrow? At what point do even the relatively inexpensive girls of the Czech republic get to be too expensive for porn? Then what do you do for a living?
The more content gets out for free, or is resold without license, the more the value of that content drops until few are going to pay for it. What is your business model at that point?