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Originally Posted by stevo
I'm not sure if i fall for the hard drive theory...
Before i got into the industry I had hundreds of gigs of stored porn. Once porn is viewed, it is rarely viewed again. It's like a repeat on television. People save porn because they like to collect and occasionally look at repeat content. But the majority of porn surfers will always be looking for new material and expanding their collections. I have 5 trillion porn movies on my computer. I never want to review that shit, for it's boring after the first time. After 10 years in the porn industry, even the first view is starting to get boring!  |
I agree... Porn is like a drug and it has to be kept fresh to be effective. People will and always will fork out a marginal amount of money (eg. a trial or the cost of a PPV scene) to see the rest of a clip that they really, really like. But after they've jerked off to it a few times, it gets stashed on the HD, never to be looked at again.
It seems like the subscription billing model is the problem, not the surfeit of content itself. There's just no point in paying $30 a month for a shitty site where the surfer is only really interested in one or two scenes or models. If you can get enough free members at a VOD site you can make barrels of money, it's not that people aren't buying overall... It's that their purchasing habits have changed.