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Originally Posted by Mutt
what a fucking joke - porn consumers as well as music consumers NEVER EVER and NOT NOW either had a problem with the price of music and porn sites. No more than any of us complain about the price of anything. I bought vinyl, cassettes and CD's I liked from 8.99 to 16.99 and didn't sit there feeling like the music industry screwed me over. Sometimes I'd buy a CD and yeah, two songs were good and the rest shitty - I blamed the band not the record company
The pricing issue is a NON ISSUE - it's an EXCUSE, A JUSTIFICATION, A LIE that thieves and brokeass losers use to take what isn't theirs.
Lower pricing isn't the solution to anything- ask the programs who tried selling porn memberships for 9.95 - Lensman and PlatinumBucks- how that worked out for them.
There is ONE problem that is destroying the paysite industry and that's PIRACY. And the law which was supposed to protect copyright owners is so fucked up that it does the complete opposite - it makes stealing content profitable and bulletproof liability wise.
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Sir,
With all due respect you are wrong. Of course those piece of shit $9.95 per month porn sites failed. They aren't worth two cents a month. The price difference between $10 and $30 is not enough to change ratios very much. In the big scheme of things it is exactly the same price point.
Now, when I say we need lower price points you take this to mean some $5 or $10 per month memberships. I do not suggest ANYTHING that is a new version of the old, worn out bullshit. Lowering monthly membership fees is not going to help anything, it will just reduce your income.
This industry needs an overhaul. There are much better ways to get money out of a surfer. I am well aware of what they are willing to spend since they regularly throw $5 per minute to watch a damn cam show. What less and less of them are willing to do is sign up to any site with recurring billing because there are 100 or even 1000 sets of content inside. The model sucks, it is dying and you and everyone else here knows it.
You can hang on to the old school videos and pic sites, fight piracy all day long and whatever else you dream up as a play on the same old shit but win or lose the fight sales will never be the same. That doesn't mean one company won't make the same money but they won't do it on one site that is exactly like the last site that was exactly like the site before that.
Bookmark this comment, check it in a year or two. Check it again in 5. It is the absolute truth and we will be seeing huge changes in the near future. Not everyone is going to keep on plugging away with Steve Lightspeed while the industry passes them by.