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Originally Posted by Angry Jew Cat
It's my opinion that the adult affiliate is going to become a thing of the past more and more so over the next few years. What I see for the future is more mega tube-styled sites with their own licensed content, maintaining their own user bases and capitalizing on their own premium memberships. In order to maintain profitability the networks are going to have to work the middleman affiliate out of the equation, and I believe that they are making it happen now. Smart business by those who are leading the pack at the moment...
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I wouldn't agree with the word "smart", it's more like "neccessary" and sometimes even "desperate" effort to regain the numbers.
Adult will never reach its potential again, the surfer gets more for less than ever, the marketer gets less for more than ever, and it's a trend, so it's more free jerking off against the paid jerking off which obviously changes the definition of "profit margins".
Then again, when there was the possibility to FUCK it up (technology advancement, cheap bandwith, more broadband penetration, hole in the laws) there would ALWAYS be someone doing this,
If you don't build a fence that's high enough and only leave there the "no access" sign, there will always be people stealing from your garden.
And again, it's not "smart", it's just exploiting a business full of idiots.
And there will most probably NEVER be any unified movement, that would be able to stop this, unless it will be government - which is a two edged sword, or many go to jail or many just retire or turn Christian or something.