11-02-2010, 01:55 AM
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Too old to care
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: On the sofa, watching TV or doing my jigsaws.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Well... take me serious or not, let's just look at the facts. Our Industry started taking a a hit 2-3 years before Tubes come on the scene, before torrents, before the Recession hit hard. I wonder why...
Pirated tubes have created a bottle neck of traffic, which doesn't filter down to affiliates, thus doesn't filter to you. It has nothing to do with free porn taking sales, it has everything to do with you not being able to sell the people - period!
You would be extremely mistaken if you think pirate tube surfers don't buy porn. Website based piracy wrapped around porn has been making millionaires for 15 years. It isn't going to stop being profitable simply because we gave it a new name, tubes.
To the why.... From the dawn of 2257 our Industry has suffered extremely due to a massive drop in the number of Affiliates. Simply put, an active/pushing program today is LUCKY to get 5 average affiliate signups daily. 8ish years ago you could sneeze and get 15 affiliate signups a day, any pushing/promotions brought upwards of 25+ a day - Same ratios go for the amount of unique affiliates paid out each period. Even processors pay out less Affiliates now.
A single law put those numbers in the reverse. Then, free porn, piracy, the eco, world wide recessions, and even technology changes just make it tougher to compete for anyone that can't expand into various global markets/mediums either through affiliates or themselves.
If you target marketing on piracy - you'll make money. Just like you would if you did it through email, mass building sites, search engine focus, etc. But you can't do it all yourself, which is why you have Affiliates... thus the more you have, the more markets yo can reach, saturate, and so on - thus more sales you DO get.
Unless you're going to argue that having Affiliates doesn't produce sales... so having like 50k affiliates would mean you would still be doing the same amount of sales as you do now? It's pretty simple stuff really.
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So because customers couldn't find porn via affiliates they stopped watching it. 
Thanks for the use of one law to harm my business. Seems you are in favor of using the law like me. As for asking 50 times, that's a straight lie or shows your inability to hit me up on ICQ. You showed your colors.
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Originally Posted by DirtyWhiteBoy
Personally, it may be what the business needs to clean it up. The down side is, where does it stop?
You can't open that box even though it may be the best thing to do.
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Without something being done to stem piracy this business is doomed. Even those today supporting their Tubes by advertising will suffer. They're teaching people not to buy porn on the Internet. |
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