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Originally Posted by CrkMStanz
I'm going to try and clarify my years worth of rants on tubes / torrent / rapidscums ...
Tubes make money (ya, I said it)
but they only make money for a few while taking a TON of money off the table for others
Torrents make money (yup, they do)
but they only make money for a few while taking a TON of money off the table for others
File Sharing sites make money (really)
but they only make money for a few while taking a TON of money off they table for others
but all these things make a lot less money than they could
Tubes (free porn) will NOT kill the porn business (nope - it won't)
but it will severely reduce the pile of money that COULD be made by everyone
everything I have ever said on this board is directed at one thing and one thing only... Continually increasing the amount of available free porn on the net decreases the total amount of money that clients would pay each year - and its a declining number each and every year.
but as long as SOME people are making SOME money, it ain't gonna change - and the decline will continue to be justified and rationalized.
hopefully the govs will get around to porn regulation on the net - not regulate the content available - but regulate the delivery methods - hopefully 1) BANNING all free delivery methods and 2) coming out with laws unique to 'digital products' and view them as any other hard product - therefor enabling prosecution under terms of 'theft' and not 'infringement'.
but as usual - those in the traffic and free-porn biz's will flock to tell me how I am totally wrong
so... carry on
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France has already implemented such measures. Making it illegal to download illegal web stuff. Obviously a HUGE blow to ummm hmmmmm fucking PRIVACY and CIVIL LIBERTIES. So by thinking you're protecting your own content you go and step all over the consumer's shoes. This makes for two extremes. Protectionism vs. Revenue. There will always be revenue, but the worst killer to revenue would be protectionism measures. It's been said before DRM has failed. And governments who enforce such Draconian bullshit are basically shooting themselves in the foot as well as their economy. Just look at what George Bush did to America. Example: Making internet gambling illegal. That's no different from halting a filesharing site. The net MUST remain neutral. One side is getting scared, whimpering in the corner and asking for an even BIGGER buttfucking from the govt. while the other side embraces freedom and adaptation. The key to this crisis is cooperation among this webmaster community as a whole. These threads need to stop criticizing each other. There is a solution if EVERYONE (paysite owners, tgp owners, tube owners, affiliates,etc.) works together to fight an even bigger monster. ADAPT OR DIE. If you keep fighting against each other the BIGGEST asshole, BIG BROTHER, is going to take away porn altogether. Don't let the BIG BROTHER win at all costs. Whatever form XXX assumes over the years, do not criticize it. Let it weather every storm. XXX faced the dot xxx extension and WON. How many countless battles has it won and survived? The war isn't over my friends and the fate of porn rests in each of your hands....
VIVE LA RESISTANCE!