This thread is very confusing.
On one hand I have people telling me DVD content doesn't sell on the Internet or the other way around. When in truth the style of DVD or video before DVD was used are as wide as what's on the Adult Internet. And today sites buy DVD content to put on their sites.
Then people are telling us that the DVD industry and magazine industry is in steep decline. So the buyers of the very diverse DVD and magazine market came to the Internet. Because Playboy wasn't their thing and Amateur was? But then why did Amateur DVDs sell so poorly?
Then someone's telling me it's all about "amateur or reality based entertainment". Well amateur and reality wasn't "born" on the Internet. It was born when cameras went from film to video. Fucking a girl in a van wasn't born on the Internet either. It was done long before the Internet.
But on the other hand Nathan is telling us he spends as much as Vivid on a scene. To produce "amateur or reality based entertainment"? Or better quality which doesn't sell on the Internet?
Then Robbie tells us he produced 1 DVD of 5-6 scenes and it being uploaded to Torrents cost him more in online joins than the $25,000 he made from it. But it was only 5-6 scenes. Is that all it takes to satisfy a porn consumers desire of CM. So doesn't his site retain or didn't retain before it got locked down. And how do his members feel about buying so much content when 5-6 scenes are enough?
Then Nathan tells us his Tube sites make very little money. Maybe he's telling the truth. Maybe people who go to Tube sites stop spending like they used to. Maybe traffic to Brazzers from his Tubes suck.
Everyone else tells us Tubes are decimating the industry. Have Tubes turned 1,000s of buyers into free surfers? Or is Nathan lying?