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Originally Posted by GUNNER
Before tubes:
Downloading and installing a file-sharing program or a newsgroup reader, and then spend hours learning how to operate said programs or system. Risk getting infected, bogus, or low-quality files. Risk being targeted by some piracy sting operation or have to worry about taking your PC, laptop in for repairs because you have illegal software installed. Very difficult to organize or access the exact type of files you're looking for because so much of the content is incorrectly named or intentionally mislalbeled.
After tubes:
Click play - watch high-quality porn for free - shoot yer load
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Thanks for reading and the support
The overall statistical drop we have today, is no worse than it was before tubes, meaning it is just about the same since 2257 came out. Only recently has it started to increase, and that is explainable by the eco since every industry in America is feeling it.
Online porn is NOT recession proof, simply because the Internet isn't recession proof. If a person can hardly afford net access, I wouldn't ever expect or think, they would pay for porn. Since that is a factor of reality we can't ignore.... I choose to take the branding. Being so, I expect MILLIONS of views for a trickle of sales.
Other very common factors for major drops in sales, rebills, money, new members - ect.. is VISA/MC re-issuing "1 hundred million+" North America cards the first few months of this year. Globally each year, this is massive. They have re-issued cards 4 times that I know of this year alone. Or that banks aren't allow high risk transactions to go through without voice auth... and hell, I could go on for days. Or if they cancel your card, and your balance is to high, they lower your balance until you pay off part of the card.
Let's not forget that 200+ of the largest programs in our Industry "ARE" screwing surfers offer. That's a major % of the sales EVERY day, being circle jerked for MONEY and not just for porn!
Piracy is big today, it was big yesterday, and it was as big then as it is today.
And again... not every paysite is dropping. Just because things slow down, which is logical, they haven't really noticed a 'problem' like most. And if they do, they know it isn't Tubes doing it.
Just a small list of what we had before Tubes.
Backdoors to everything.
Open and private forums by the 1000's.
Most of the first paysites was all stolen content.
Password sites that used to do zero minute hacks on request.
Password sites used to sell memberships to your pirated content.
IRC was once a monster, everyone had it, and it had everything.
EasyNews, or web-based news sites that were the first tube sites.
Crack, warez, serial number sites used to have major pirated porn on them.
File Sharing wasn't a technical jump, it was just software, that even kids did use.
That's basically ignoring the other known factors, normal newsgroups, basic one-on-one trading, entire torrent like warez/porn servers wide open for free access, ftp up/down exchange systems, and this list can go on too.