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Originally Posted by helterskelter808
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?
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Someone who knows nothing about offline porn posting again.
The offline magazines were well aware of it.
Collecting a whole website on a dial up.
You mean downloading 5 videos and 10 images sets that were so compressed it was hardly worth the trouble. Early websites, as you point out, were not even mosquitoes compared to today sites.
As for the financial Melt Down.
What caused the melt down of online porn was the slow down growth of online surfers in countries worth selling to, saturation of free and paid for porn and the end game of free porn. Tube sites.