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Originally Posted by WWC
Most tube sites also pay for the content they showcase, or its promotional material business owners submit.....
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on the most part, that isn't true as xxxjay said, but, the ones with deep pockets, can certainly do things the legal way by making a bulk buy from places like WWC as well as produce their own stuff.
Start off stealing stuff, then go legit by licensing. no different than ripping from usenet back in the days, making money, and then licensing content and shooting own content to go legit.
this all just proves the evolution of the "adult product" to go much like like .com space, give stuff away for free, and make money off of advertising (ie. google, etc).
free porn is the lure for eyeballs, and advertisers pay to be in front of the eyeballs.
for those that say that tube/free traffic doesn't convert, certainly don't know the realiity of things. Choker tried to explain it folks. Others have dabbled with tube traffic and has seen its value.
if you run a paysite or are an affiliate, the tube "phenomenon" should be very disturbing to you, not just from a copyright or 2257 issue, but for the fact, they are, like all product (*ie. p2p) trying to legitimize themselves.
how can you compete with free when the quality of content is equal?
as jay23 and WWC have said, bandwidth is getting to be so cheap, that a tube site can afford to burn through bandwidth and free content to get to the sale.. even if it is 1:10000 if you have a large number of visitors showing up, the conversion number can still turn a profit, along with advertisers who will pay for the click and for the branding exposure.
money can still be made, particularly in niche content, but just wait for niche tube sites (like ones that show recorded webcam content) to come out, or see the tube sites push the niches further in their category list, to include those niches (not just the vanilla straight niches that they have now).
Fight the enemy mine!