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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
The music industry is a much closer comparison in my opinion. Radio stations give away music for free yet people still buy music.
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"Free" is subjective to the end users perception.
On radio and TV. You have to suffer through the commercials that finance the "free" to the end user. Where some people do not mind commercials, some can't stand them. Hence TiVO and subscription types of radio.
As for your other point in regards to adult. People who were not around in the 90's when the online adult porn industry started are quick to forget the history lesson repeating it's self a decade later.
Now that most higher end, well known, traffic tube sites are making a mint, they are now licensing their content. They can now afford to do it, and the content producers are providing them the material. This is a buyer's market.
While not all are legal out there, many more are moving in that direction.