Great post EB and a thread well worth reading
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Originally Posted by Adam X
The market is telling the adult industry something loud and clear: We do not value your content.
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By say 2006, There had been rather technological barriers that didn't allow to "not value" the content so easily, if one wanted to get it, chances for immediate free satisfaction were limited (TGP times, torrents too slow and and too techie to use).
So unless you wanted to check file sharing (no full length free overload like it is today), then if you were looking for something new to jerk off to, you still had to "value" it minimally by the distributor's price (be it a clip download, VOD or subscription).
Yet it's totally true that if someone jacks off, the material interests him exactly for a time period from 5 to 15 minutes and the only thing he cares about is if the girl (boy, tranny, hermaphrodite anything) and the practices involved turn him on.
He could care less if someone spent 50 000 USD on production and lost half of his nose due coke abuse already or if it's a scene shot for 1500 USD.
I've seen the approach of "if it cost a lot of money it has to be great" far too many times and while I believe content has its value and good and reliable content producers should get their fair share, it just shows the "golden days" attitude.
Unless you're buying a celebrity sex tape, spending 50 000 USD on a movie just doesn't make sense at all and all the content in the world has only so much value as how is one able to market it.