Originally Posted by Paul Markham

for those thinking it will, here's why you're about to be disappointed. For this we will assume, wrongly, that all the file lockers will stop pirating porn.

Consumers of porn follow content. no matter what you say ultimately good or bad porn the consumer will go and stay where the porn content is the best for him. Traffic is uncontrollable, it's people who have wills of their own. If you don't give them what they want, they will go to someone who will.

In the very early days no offline porn business could be bothered to worry about BBS or Newsgroups. Even though free it was not competing. As soon as TGPs came out, magazines took notice. No longer did a person have to buy a magazine with 8 sets of 20 pictures for $5. 100s of TGP sites were giving out 8 new galleries of 20 pictures a day. some of the people who were buying magazines were now getting the free option and a few per 1,000 were buying. not clicks on a link.

By 2004, long before cheap BW, magazines were really feeling the pinch. Now we know the damage done.

Same with videos. Why pay $30 for 5 scenes when you can get 300 for $30 and download them in a month?