Originally Posted by Robbie

Well, there wouldn't be much left of free porn. I know a lot of guys theorize that if TGP's hadn't been around we would all somehow be much richer and sell more porn. But I can tell you that I sold around 10 million dollars worth of PAYSITE memberships from 1997 to 2006....and I did every bit of it with hardcore galleries. I was getting massive amounts of traffic. My very successful experience has been that "YES" you do make sales by giving out free porn. But in a controlled manner.

Tubes and torrents have all but killed affiliate sales to paysites. I know that from both ends of the spectrum. As an affiliate I no longer have that big traffic (we all know where it is now) and the only thing I can sell seems to be dating or cams.
And as a paysite owner I see that my "big" affiliates from 2 years ago went from sending 20 thousand hits a day to sending a couple of hundred hits a day. And my type-ins to affiliate sales ratios to Claudia-Marie's site are like 90% type ins vs. 10% affiliate sales.

So with affiliate sales to paysites already almost dead...I would say that taking away their ability to even run our nude and hardcore hosted materials and banners would take them down to almost nothing. And the only thing left would be non-nude blogs and google traffic. And paysites can easily dominate that for themselves. Hell, most paysites are already cultivating their own traffic and sales.