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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
I do not think anyone has a definitive answer.
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Agreed. We need to change but no one has a clue how to, except becoming Tube sites. There is a finite number of sites that will survive by giving it away for free. Lots of Tube sites are asking for hosted content. Without successful paysites where is that going to come from? Dating and Cam sites might not be able to afford everyone giving it away.
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Originally Posted by GatorB
What solution did he propose? I guess I missed that.
Ok here's an anology. All these porn companaies are like blackmsiths 100 years ago. They did fine for along time when everyone used horses to get around, but then 100 years ago people started buying cars. Instead of accepting that and perhaps start selling tires the industry is acting like blacksmiths who try to get people to stop buying cars and go back to horses. Well that wasn't going to happen. And stopping tubes and torrents and free porn in general isn't going to happen either. If it was that easy it would have been done years ago. Now you can be a blacksmith that tries to still sell horseshoes and eventually go out of business or you can start selling tires.
The porn industry is just like the music and mainstream movie/TV industry and has it head in the sand and refuses to adapt because that means accepting the fact your product isn't worth as much as it used to be. For example eventually the music industry will have to realize that the money in music isn't from selling songs or albums. The songs will be used to promote the concert tour of the artist and thus be given out for free. I will be shocked if in 20 years music is actually still being sold.
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Songs have always been used to promote tours and tours to promote songs.
So we give away porn to promote a models tour of strip clubs.
We need to change but how is the problem.