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Originally Posted by 19teenporn
It's not hard to realize the fact that all of gfyers that are constantly opposing to and making fun of SOPA have illegal tubes or forums.
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This is the problem. It's the online culture of thinking you can "share" what ever you like with millions.
Sharing always existed, in 1960 I was recording Top of the Pops from the radio. Wasn't sharing it with friends, just listening to the records on a reel to reel tape machine. Then Pirate Radio came out, ships anchored in the North Sea, they I believe paid fees to the music companies.
We rarely shared porn mags, porn was not the type of thing you admitted to buying. Sharing porn was a give away to buying and limited to Playboy, which was shared in the barbers shop!!
Sharing VHS tapes was unlikely, you needed 2 tape decks and they weren't cheap and tapes had to be bought. Still a few companies pirated off masters or other VHS copies. It was a micro side line, except in places like Russia. And no one cared because they wouldn't buy much anyway.
Then around 1995 the Internet hit us and Newsgroups. And piracy took off. People were scanning mags and uploading the scans as if this was the latest craze and acceptable. The problem was small compared with today, but it was the start of the culture that sharing online was the thing to do.
Now it's hurting everyone. Even those who profit from the traffic it hurts. The surfers who buy will come anyway. They have no proof they wouldn't come if there was no free porn. Legal or pirated. They just look at the vast numbers of non buyers as if that's proof. Yes 1 in 10,000 do buy. Remove all the freeloaders and it would be 1-100. Don't nit pick the figures, you know the point I'm making.
Men bought porn long before the Internet existed. No online porn mogul can get within a mile of the offline porn moguls. Manwin Photoshopped their logo onto a building they have suite 300 in.
Flynt owns the building with his name on.
16 years ago I welcomed online porn as a new horizon for the porn industry, no more going to your local porn shop to buy porn. A more diverse range of niches. A better and faster delivery. A way for creators of the porn to be retailers as well, this was something pretty well unknown of in 1995. Today I see online porn not as a new dawn for porn, more like a dusk of porn.
SOPA will not change it, but I will love seeing pirates of all created products to get whacked hard. Only because I'm a creator of a product that I didn't give away for peanuts. It will make little difference to the porn industry and those who think it will are not thinking with a clear head. Go look at the traffic on the biggest piracy sites and compare it with where the traffic will go when the porn pirates are closed. Site like Pornhub and Youjizz. Anyone who thinks all those downloading pirated content will rush to get out their CCs are deluded.
You taught surfers far too well to expect them to pay for porn now. And Pornhub can buy legal content to make sure it can still sell ad space. If you want to hit Tubes, hit the cam sites and dating sites that support them. Tell surfers about free dating, the scams AFF pull to make the surfer think there's a girl waiting for them and the free web cam sites. This will hurt your sales selling dating sites where the odds on meeting a girl are slim to none. Or selling a web cam site when there are free ones.
The Internet needs a sledge hammer taken to it, stop free emails so I don't get spammed with sites trying to infect my computer. Hammer sites with viruses on or sites that infect other sites, stop the ability for any Tom, dick or Harry with an Internet connection to be in business without revealing to the world who and where he is. Make taking money online hard. It won't effect the amount taken, it will kick out the scum and who knows, make people feel safer about going online and spending money.
Yes a lot of you will hate that, you don't want the neighbors to know you work from your back bedroom, tough shit. It's about turning the Internet into the tool it can be, not leaving it as the mess it is so you can scrape a living. No money will be loss, well maybe you will lose a job or have to get a real office. Tough, that's what being in business is about.
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Originally Posted by StickyGreen
Government is the problem in most cases, not the solution.
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and if you think self regulation has worked, you're on some pretty strong drugs. The Government is the
ONLY solution.
Unless you have something we can try that hasn't been done before stop hallucinating.