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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
OK you couldn't but a lot could in 2000. Have you ever tried to sell DVD of CM? Because to my knowledge big tit girls fucking DOES sell on DVD. Not 2000 prices but nice prices. 1,000s of of copies of a DVD title doing the rounds advertising CMs site, better than free. You get paid for these adverts. .
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Yes, we did. And Frank at IVD distributed it. The end result was I netted about 25 grand for the sales it did. And it was immediately pirated all over the place and cost me in lost sales online.
All the time and effort that went into it were just not worth it. Frank told me that in 1999 I would have netted 5 times that. But that pieces just don't sell like that anymore.
And on the "reality gonzo was born" comment I made and you misunderstood....REALITY was the main word there. IF there were plenty of DVD's around trying to do "reality" they did not do it correctly. The Bangbus was the first I ever saw that had a guy with a camcorder he bought at Walmart shooting whores in a raw "un-pretty" way. And the sales blew the roof off of everything.
I know that "gonzo" porn was shot before. I had some of that on VCR that I jerked to in 1980. But it starred guys like Peter North and girls like Christy Canyon. lol
It was far from what BangBus was doing and what became a genre online that sold more paysite memberships and made more money than any DVD ever did.
I'm not arguing that Porn Valley studios didn't rule and make monster money 20, 30, 40 years ago. I know they did. I'm only stating that in today's world...online is king.
As far as DVD sales go...I know that you are aware that it's practically completely dead compared to what it was 20, even 10 years ago. And friends of mine who own brick and mortar adult stores make most of their money off of toys, lubes, lingerie, and gay guys sucking each others cocks in the "video rooms".
You know that. And it doesn't matter how many little
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My guess would be that Vivid makes more money on VOD online like this:
http://theater.aebn.net/dispatcher/f...chType=mov ie
than they do selling DVD's in actual Adult Book Stores.