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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
Sites that grew big and DMCA heavy in the 2000s started off by stealing and selling other people's shit in the 1990s - which I know, so everyone here must know - so acting like "piracy" is some new evil is ... weird.
The real difference between the good ol' 90s and now is that in the good ol' 90s there were *cue number pulling from ass* about 25 porn sites in the world, whereas now there's about 25 billion porn sites in the world.
It doesn't a take a genius to know that more competition = lower prices, special offers, free stuff, and generally harder business.
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That's a nice sounding synopsis. But that ain't how it played out. Piracy went through the roof in 2008 and is now completely out of control.
Nobody was stealing full member sites and giving it away for free to millions of people while monetizing it on pre-paid ads in the past.
If you had been around in the 90's you would have seen for yourself how things worked and how we made our money. And every year the money grew and grew rigtht up until the middle of 2009 when paysite rebills started falling along with sales.
It's not "competition" that we are talking about...it's STEALING.