As someone who has been going to offline porn shows for 20 years I've never seen an offline porn show smaller than an online one. As they allow in the real people who matter in business, the customer. I doubt if what you said was true.
What I did hear from around 1998 was the complaints that free porn was damaging sales. Then as TGPs took over the traffic game the complaints got louder. Really in disbelief that online had to give porn away to sell it. The underlying theme was free porn will bite you in the ass.
Even in your heyday as a distributor of free porn you were getting more people off for free than you were ever selling to.
Yes piracy is a pain in the neck and bloody annoying. But has not done 1/10 of the damage to the porn industry legitimate porn did by giving the product away.
This is where the damage is being done.
That's around 8 million surfers who are tracked by Alexa logging into 9 Tubes. Fabian recently boasted he had 20 million a day. Alexa shows 1.5 million. If he gets 10 times what's shown, so do the rest. 90 million people a day logging into a porn Tube on those sites listed. If it converts at 1-2,000 and that's generous. That's only 45,000 buyers.
1-5,000 = 18,000
Free porn not piracy is what's harming this business. Piracy can be fought against, not easy but the legal cases are on all the time. Free porn from what most write can't be fought against.
Think of the porn world TGPs created. 90,000,000 looking at porn and 89,982,000 getting off and fucking off.
All for free.
You were just in at the beginning and started the snowball rolling.
Like I said when I see Fabian listed in a German Rich Person list, I'll take his claims seriously.
Anyone speak German and have access to the German Rich List?