Originally Posted by helterskelter808

I can see why the owners of those 10 TGPs and/or paysites might be upset if tubes have taken their place, but it doesn't make any real difference to anyone else.

More generally, this is about the only legal 'industry' I can think of where most people seem to think nothing of behaving in shady or illegal ways, while most of everyone else seems to think that's fine, no big deal or just the way things happen.

People call non-porn 'mainstream' like they're involved organized crime or something; WTF? There is no mainstream or non-mainstream, there is just legal and illegal, or at least ethical and unethical.

Treating customers like marks because they're going to be too 'ashamed' to complain about being ripped off is something that should have died when porn left seedy, low-rent offline ghettos and became fully, legally and openly available online.

Porn is legal and - ironically, largely because of Tubes - it is also mainstream. There's no reason for porn businesses not to behave in the same way and with the same standards that most other legal businesses behave.