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Originally Posted by Robbie
Difference in that and what's happening now is like comparing a mosquito bite to a nuclear bomb.
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Well the entire internet then, especially the web, was a mosquito compared to today. You could probably fit the entire WWW of the mid 90s on a memory stick. Twice.
In the 90s, major offline porn dinosaurs hadn't even caught on to the net and were oblivious to the wholesale scanning/vidcapping/distribution/selling of their shit, and the DMCA wasn't even a twinkle in anyone's eye. So in some ways things were
worse back then for copyright owners. It was lawless.
'Pirates' collecting entire websites is also nothing new. People were doing it over a decade ago, with 99% of people still on dialup, picture set by picture set, via newsgroups. As cable and DSL use grew from the late 90s, so did the uploads from image sets to compressed/edited porn clips to unedited full scenes, to full CDs/DVDs.
As to why your sales have dropped since 2008/2009... What planet are you living on? One where there
wasn't a global financial meltdown?