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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
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There's no BIG money in leg or foot fetish either. You will tell us how you make big money but I'm talking about the industry ad a whole.
What Sharky barely touched on was the saturation of Internet porn sites and people in it. For the money the industry produces.
The magazine business was a license to print money for those in it, because there were few in it. If you could not get your mag onto a top shelf you were screwed. This kept up the earnings of all involved. Most mags sold 100,000 copies each month. If your mag did not sell, the distributors and shops did not want it.
The video/DVD business suffered because of the number of companies selling films and the number of titles each one produced. 15 years ago if you sold 10,000 copies you were in the top league. Real quality porn is tough to maintain if the producer is only getting $5 a copy wholesale.
On the Internet anyone who can throw up a site and point a camera could become a site owner or producer. Anyone who could submit a banner, gallery, etc. could become a webmaster. The result was too many people trying to make a living in a market that could not sustain them. So quality suffered in most cases. Turning more customers off buying, making producers squeeze production costs and the spiral continues.