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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
I was a paid up member of APIC since 1992 if my memory serves me right. I have no problem paying and supporting an organisation today to do the same thing.
I do not see stopping content theft as the problem though. The problem is, it is becoming easier to sell porn at a price that does not support the affiliate machine we have built. As more and more sites see traffic going to far cheaper options for the surfer this part of the porn industry will need to take stock and adjust.
I can deliver a site with 5 videos good enough to enjoy for $1.00, so $2.00 to make a good profit. Am I better off selling that to 100 than 1 $30 site to 1 surfer? Don't gripe about the numbers, you know what I'm talking about.
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Paul, you miss the point entirely. When torrent and tube sites are giving away more than enough content to get the punters off, they aren't spending $30 and they aren't spending $1 either. You aren't choosing between "this and that" but "something or nothing".
It is all about the costs of obtaining new customers. If it costs you $5 to find a new customer, then making $1 off of them isn't going to do it for you. The costs of obtaining new customers is always higher than retaining existing ones. Making it harder to find new customers makes it even more expensive each time.
It is the reason why established dating sites like AFF can make huge payouts, because they are only paying for new first time members, not returning members and not existing members. So As they get a bigger and bigger percentage of the like customers signed up once, their business model becomes more about retention, and paying huge dollars to get a declining number of new customers. They are using the torrent and tube sites to do it, they are the only ones able to consistantly pay high dollars for new users.
If you teach people not to pay for porn, the number of people who will pay for it gets small and smaller, and they become infinitely more valuable, not less.
Allowing the tubes and torrents to freely distribute stolen material and paying them to do it is fucking insane and suicidal.