Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

I just finished his book "The Long Tail" actually, and while he has alot of great points about the digital economy as a whole, not all of those things he talks about are transferable to the adult market.

For instance, product placement for generating revenue. Or a model where everything is free and supported by advertising (google for instance)

I don't see that working in the adult market in the near future because who is going to pay for advertising in adult space except for people selling the same content you're giving away for free? (yes cams, toys and dating are the exception....but I don't think they're going to bring in enough revenue to support content production 100%)
I know someone is going to come throw tube sites in my face here....but we are talking about legal content distribution here, where the content is given away for free by the creator/owner. Not a model where content is stolen from the owner to be given away to someone else.

While the market is definitely changing, I don't think adult and mainstream are going to follow the same paths.