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Originally Posted by Robbie
Because the entertainment industry has always thrived during hard economic times. I explained that pretty thoroughly in my original posts. Porn is entertainment. Entertainment is NOT like any other business.
Just like in the early 1980's...the bar business is booming as folks will drop $100 + a night partying, movie theaters are setting records (and it costs more than a hundred bucks to take a family to the movies and hit the concession stand)...and yet people can't afford $30 for a full month membership?
I speak from experience here. If it were not for the fact that everybodies work is available for FREE we would be in a much different situation right now.
The music industry was completely destroyed by piracy. And that happened during a booming economy. Find your nearest record store if you don't believe me...oh, that's right, there aren't any. NONE.
Same thing is happening to the adult industry. Whether you believe it or not.
I played in bands professionally from 1978 to 1998 and I was there in the packed clubs playing and making great money all through the recession of the early 1980's.
There's a reason why people don't buy porn like they used to. Pretty simple to figure out really...nobody wants to pay for something that is free.  |
Before I started in this crazy business I was in the music industry for fifteen years, as a journalist for Rolling Stone and Billboard and Spin (and about twenty others) and as an A&R exec at Atlantic Records (and a short stint in Publicity for Polygram).
I wrote an article in 1999 called 'What the Record Industry Should Do RIGHT NOW To Stop The Next Napster'. Remember Napster? Well, there was about an eighteen-month window when the music biz got that site taken down, and everyone thought the threat was over. I knew better - perhaps because I was younger (then) than most of my collegues and more 'in touch' with this new thing called the World Wide Web.
Well, the point of the article was this: Every major label should start thier OWN download-only 'store' that sells their songs for a dollar apiece, or set a price for a full album below what a CD costs. Basically, everything that iTunes became just a few years after this. Did anyone listen? No. That article was written for an industry magazine, a place intended for professionals 'in the biz'. The feedback was immediate and overwhelming. Here's a small sample of the feedback I got back in '99:
'Shut the fuck up, we stopped Napster we'll stop anyone else that tries to steal our shit, you don't know what you're talking about, this will all blow over, the good times will return...'
Look around.
Not saying I'm a Genius, but after fifteen years in the music biz (starting when I was sixteen, BTW) and knowing hundreds of people in the industry, and having some level of respect based on my work, and STILL no one listened.
So Robbie is RIGHT y'all - which is why i comment so frequently on his posts. He doesn't have his head up his ass like so many.
So:
Go streaming only
fight the pirates
make money