I have used this one before and will use it again. There is a way to make money still on porn even in the world of free porn. Robbie should know better than anyone that personality, interaction, quality of service is something that a premium can be charged for successfully. We do it and I bet he is able to do it with Claudia Marie.
You can watch shows free on tv now so why pay for HBO or any other premium channel? Better service? Less commercials? I would much rather pay to see something I liked uncut and complete than catch it a year later and heavily edited so I am willing to pay for premium cable. Simple.
And forget the "full movies trump tgp" type argument. Does it matter to the person getting off on it? I could trim the ferret easily to those galleries that Lightspeed used to put up of Tawny back in the day. Did it matter that it wasn't "hardcore"? No. Did it matter that it wasn't a 30 minute movie? Not at all. Did it matter that I knew she was 18 for over five years? Ummm... yep... no on that too. So why didn't I convert to a paying customer? I had the impression when I got a trial that I had already seen the best stuff. And Lightspeed was far better than most in this regard. Think about all those crap sites that had only the same content that was up in the tgp/mgp galleries, but maybe a week behind in terms of release dates.
We try to give a value way beyond what people see for free. To make the site more compelling than just more porn because that is the way to stand apart and give the customer a good feeling about paying. I know for a fact that this works. Why else would we be converting on GREAT BIG BAD FREE EVIL TUBES? If the traffic didn't covert at an acceptable level to make it worth the time and energy to post our content then we would not do it. Period.
However, anyone that thinks free porn is going to end the fact that selling sex is still the world's oldest profession needs to consider a different field and make more room for the rest of us.
