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Originally Posted by cashcows
Show the stats that prove that statement. A whole lot less is being spent per person than years ago. Production is down every where. And in a crappy economy when FREE is an option. Many people opt for free.
The problem is the same as the music industry. People would rather get it free than pay and it's easier to get porn free than to even sign up at a site.
That's the problem. This whole give a way massive samples of porn is what has caused the problems, TGP, Tube sites, and piracy being the least detrimental of the three.
When free content is more accessible then paid content you have a serious problem in any market.
Got the food court at a mall, They give out a sample the since of a quarter. Hoe much food do you think they'd sell if the gave out 1/2 to 3/4 a sandwich?
The same thing is now happening in the info product sector. They are Moving the Free Line A La Eben Pagan. "Give a way your best useful but incomplete free content." This worked for the first guy in the niche. Now people hop around from info guru to info guru in a particular niche getting the BEST free content and don't buy as much.
We need a PAY TO PLAY model again NO FREE STUFF! If the first two pages of google was all links to pay sites instead of tube sites people would start paying again. As statistically people don't even look past the first couple pages.
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He can't he's got no idea what he's talking about.
Here's a little clue.
A decent video/DVD would be duplicated 10,000 times. The sales price would be $30-$40, that generates an income on sales of $300,000 to $400,000 for a single title in a single month. Then add rental. Anyone who knew offline porn will know the money taken on Rental. Some thought is was doubling sales. Than add all the people who bought a cable porn TV Channel. It's estimated there were 10,000 videos titles released every year.
So that covers the US for 1 title, 1 month. Now think of the rest of the world.
Of course this was prior to Internet porn. When so many porn buyers found out they could get it for free, or download a years viewing in a few days (remember all the complaints about members downloading everything, canceling and not buying for months?) and all those horrible fuckers charging back at the end of the month.
For years I sat and read about TGPs losing sales because some have too much hard core in. That members were just downloading a complete site and not buying again or retaining and of course the terrible people who canceled or charged back.
Problems offline porn never had. Customers never took back a video they bought, never got them for free and only got 90 minutes to 120.
Now people after all these years of moaning are claiming online is the biggest thing to hit porn. If it is, it's only because offline has shrunk down to the size of online.