The big problem when debating the issue of free porn and the devastation it caused with online people is.
They are clueless about the porn industry prior to the Internet.
They think it revolved around a few video-DVD companies operating out of The Valley LA and the rest was not worth a dime.
They don§t even use common sense. So here's some pointers for them.
Printed porn was enormous. Simply Gigantic.
A country like the UK sold well over a million printed porn magazines a month. With a population around 55 million that's 2%. Use the same % for the US and EU and you're on your way to the true buying numbers.
Now add the rest of the world. Exclude China, Muslim countries and a few other minor places. And it's clear magazines were selling at a rate of close to 100 million every month.
Now add cable. Before the Internet cable was available in most of the developed world and Adult Channels were wide spread. In the UK
Richard Clive Desmond made millions out of porn, most of it from owning
Television X and
Red Hot TV, he sold off his print porn empire after the Internet devastated printed porn. He seems to have survived.
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In 2010, Desmond was ranked the equal-57th richest man in Britain according to the Sunday Times Rich List,[3] with a net worth of £950 million
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Will we ever see an online porn mogul reach these heights?
So cable both soft and hardcore were big earners.
Then there's DVD/Video. Any decent feature film was shot in 3 versions, hard, medium and soft. Often the softcore version was worth more than the hardcore.
Because it could be sold anywhere that would allow soft core, even a few Muslim countries.
In fact there were many companies who only shot softcore because of the profit and lack of hassle.
And prior to the Internet all films after release into cinema went to video shops. For rental and sale. Today the high street video rental business are a dying bread. For porn it was reckoned 50% of video sales were via rental.
When discussing it with most they ignore all that happened then. Unless they gloat at how the Internet and it's free porn made these industries a shadow of what they were. As the punch away at their keyboards in their spare bedroom or living room they only count their wages and think they are part of the new wave of selling porn.
Some don't even think beyond their own posts.
Boasting 100s of millions look at porn, 10,000 buy porn yet still not everyone is buying, and ratios are falling. About the dumbest statement ever.
Well he can't come up with a single shred of proof of his boasted sales figures. so let's assume what we may from that. His site in his signature definitely shows a porn mogul doing 300 sales a day = $9,000 and $3,285,000 a year in sales.
Go sell your bullshit somewhere else, I'm not buying it. Prove it or brand yourself a failure at lying.