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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So where does your information come from. How many DVD companies, magazine publishers, content producers and others outside your narrow view of the porn world do you speak to? Go ask them if they make more money now than they did before. Sales on the Internet never replaced the money they lost. Too many buyers realised content was free on the Internet. Like you they learned they could pirate content instead of buying it.
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People spent more on porn after the 'net, an astounding amount more, billions and billions more. It went from a small group of producers doing a rather expensive job.... to 10,000's of producers world wide that forced the cost of production to drop, very fast.
Of course your friends wouldn't be making more today. 99% of them didn't move over to a new medium until they were almost out of business and had no choice - which is far to late.
Just because you produce porn great today doesn't mean it will be tomorrow...
BTW, in the 80's my dads friends pirated porn... it was very common to swap, trade, or copy a vhs to give to a friend. Every porn tape he had was a copy, not an original. I have a feeling people knew they could get porn for free far before the Internet was around.