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Originally Posted by izzynew
Then you get the price lowering argument. But if you are selling crap and people realize it's crap, there's no point in lowering the price when it's already out there on tubes or obtainable via rapidshare and co.
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Which shows how the "Lock Down"solution won't work. 90% of the content on the Adult Internet isn't worth locking down.
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So one answer here is to produce good quality content. But what's the point if it gets downloaded and put on rapidshare?
And even if you sell memberships for a lower 'value' price, it can still be obtained for free.
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This is where locking it down works. It won't turn the clock back to 2005 but it will save some.
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I don't think we can apply on a broad scale the same thinking that iTunes applied to their model either, unless someone comes up with the idea of an application similar to iTunes.
Buy an iPod and you have to download iTunes to transfer your own CDs as well as download new music. OK, you can find ways around the system, but basically, if you want a piece of music quick and it's cheap, then you probably go to iTunes rather than search for the same music on rapidshare, because you have to get around the system before you can use the download on your iPod.
But would porn industry leaders want to get together to make an application like this? Especially when most of their movies are out there for free already. Would there be any point?
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Good luck getting affiliates to send traffic to a site that bills 99 cents a scene.
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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
Porn is not rocket science. Piracy, saturation and credit issues are the main issues hurting this business. If you can deliver what your customers want, price has nothing to do with it.
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Most people know in spades what their affiliates need and churned out crap that only worked when the consumer HAD to buy. Few sites really understand customers needs or porn.
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The road ahead is rocky and for many will end soon. The irony is while most on the Adult Internet chuckled that free porn was hurting mainstream porn industries. They now are losing their jobs to free porn.
Piracy isn't the problem. Eliminating it will still leave the gate open for people to put up free legit movies, or do you think Manwin will give up and go away? The problem is the low cost of hosting, the high cost of promotion and the lack of innovation, imagination and skills of those who produce the product. Most people pay as little as possible for content and the result is boring porn that's cloned on site after site.