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kane · 06-08-2009, 03:53 PM

There is a lot of truth in this thread.

For me the bottom line, like others have already said, is that people have limited time, but now they have more options to achieve their goals.

Before if I came home from work and decided I wanted to rub one out before taking a shower and getting some dinner I had limited options. I could hit a paysite or maybe a link site or TGP. Now there are tube sites galore so if I am into just generic hardcore porn there is no reason for me to pay and finding them is easy.

Before if I wanted to have some dirty chat or maybe meet a girl to hook up with there were only a few options for that. Now there are many different choices. There are a million dating sites, social networking sites, chat rooms and a dozen different IM clients.

There is just more and more stuff all competing for the same time and money so it makes it harder. I still think a lot of this stuff is doomed to failure. Sure, there are some tube sites that are making some good money, but many of them are up for sale so you wonder how much they are really making. You would assume as their popularity grows so would the number of freeloaders. When you run a TGP or even put up a TGP gallery a freeloader doesn't cost you too much. With a tube site they can now watch hour and hours of video without having to spend a dime so the overall cost of carrying a freeloader has risen. Eventually, I feel, the dating and cam ads on tube sites will begin to stagnate and they will find themselves in a situation where revenue drops while usage increases and they will be forced to see them posting more and more shorter clips or they will give away less and start charging. Some of them are already charging to download the movies or to get access to high def videos. I think as the tube sites start to change their model things might start to return somewhat to normal.

Then again this is an industry where just about every "innovation" seems to be geared towards finding new and interesting ways to give away more free porn so I guess if the tubes start to fail we will see fully free paysites or something like that.

06-08-2009, 03:53 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	There is a lot of truth in this thread. For me the bottom line, like others have already said, is that people have limited time, but now they have more options to achieve their goals. Before if I came home from work and decided I wanted to rub one out before taking a shower and getting some dinner I had limited options. I could hit a paysite or maybe a link site or TGP. Now there are tube sites galore so if I am into just generic hardcore porn there is no reason for me to pay and finding them is easy. Before if I wanted to have some dirty chat or maybe meet a girl to hook up with there were only a few options for that. Now there are many different choices. There are a million dating sites, social networking sites, chat rooms and a dozen different IM clients. There is just more and more stuff all competing for the same time and money so it makes it harder. I still think a lot of this stuff is doomed to failure. Sure, there are some tube sites that are making some good money, but many of them are up for sale so you wonder how much they are really making. You would assume as their popularity grows so would the number of freeloaders. When you run a TGP or even put up a TGP gallery a freeloader doesn't cost you too much. With a tube site they can now watch hour and hours of video without having to spend a dime so the overall cost of carrying a freeloader has risen. Eventually, I feel, the dating and cam ads on tube sites will begin to stagnate and they will find themselves in a situation where revenue drops while usage increases and they will be forced to see them posting more and more shorter clips or they will give away less and start charging. Some of them are already charging to download the movies or to get access to high def videos. I think as the tube sites start to change their model things might start to return somewhat to normal. Then again this is an industry where just about every "innovation" seems to be geared towards finding new and interesting ways to give away more free porn so I guess if the tubes start to fail we will see fully free paysites or something like that.