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Originally Posted by A1R3K
I don't believe any of the liars in those articles. No one tells the truth to anyone in press. Its all a giant circle jerk. Sales are not down 10%, motherfuckers are going out of business! Doors are closing. They act like the goddamn Iraqi Information Minister. Some studios will weather the storm, other ones will not. The failure of many of the large studios to do something productive on the web years ago is fucking them in the ass right now. With a very few exceptions, video companies going to web have totally fucked it up. Now it's too late. DVD is dying a slow death and they don't have a web presence. Shit, I'd wager that half of them don't even have their shit encoded for the web in the right formats or traffic to a domain they own. Of course DVD will never die, unless a new format replaces it, but it is surely being kicked in the balls right now. People are upside down on mortgages, gas and food prices are crippling the middle class that once had a few hundred dollars between paychecks. Nothing is recession proof. How do I start charging people for air?
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I can agree with some of this. The mainstream adult companies that haven't come online are probably fucked. They have always been afraid of change, afraid of online - always blamed piracy for problems. When the truth is, they didn't adapt and now they are lost.
Major porn companies have gone out of business, for one reason or another, every year for the last 11 years. Many just went belly up. The last 4 years opened more affiliate programs then the previous 7, most programs being sold and/or going poof, are less than 4 years old.
You are seeing a shift, a shift of power, traffic and sales in this industry. 2257 each round of it killed a great deal of Webmasters off that didn't want to deal with that shit. Major programs xsales and exit trades are dieing out, this kills the floating sales/traffic our industry had - which made it's real size fake. As programs get purchased, even more of this float is lost to the rest of us. The biggest round of this happened with AFF purchased almost every major programs exit. I know personally I lost about 50+ sales a day from just AFF doing that.
Piracy, not an issue - never will be to a solid product. Just like people know you can get movies/music online for free, and yet people will always pay for it. Like the largest opening weekend in history for batman - bad eco, piracy? humm.....