Paul,
So as you said "it's really all guess work" so you have no back up for those numbers, its you guessing.. AVG sales per video title were also clearly not 10000. Thats a way too high number. Sure, some have sold 100000 times, but many were sold, also back then, only 1000 times.
Also softcore, cable, all that is still around.
Today, there is clearly at least still 10000 video titles a year, and they on avg I would say are sold around 1000 times nowadays. But thats hard to say for sure, as it is for you to say for sure too.
Cable, Softcore, Magazine is still around. Although also for Mag sales, 300k per title is definitely not an avg number of circulation for a mag back in the day...
Phonesex is pretty big still.
Your knowledge of online is limited, so let's not even talk about your flawed calculation regarding what a $30 join profits.
Penthouse went bankrupt and the owner that bought it out of bankruptcy got a loan and bought AFF. They did not get a loan because penthouse was so awesome though, they got a loan because AFF was.
Manwin did not buy Wicked since thats a stupid thing to do. Buying out an offline porn company usually removes the talent from it since the owners are usually the creative minds. Buying Wicked completely would likely mean losing Steve and thus making Wicked invaluable as an asset, except for its back-catalog. But that simply is not enough to really gain.
Buying Private, today, is also a big issue, since it will be very complicated to do so simply because of how Birth Milton is. He is also sadly destroying the Brand currently, and it will lose all its value until the end of this year if not sooner. Regardless of a back catalog. If everyone hates Private, the back catalog is worthless too.
Evil Angel, for some reason, I have not looked at closely enough yet, good idea though...
Always fun to argue with you though, Paul.
