This is a very rough and general take that applies to most. Don't post about sites or people that kicked the norm.
In the early days speed was low, BW expensive and connections scattered. Online porn a shadow of what it was to become. And took some skills to get into. As years passed speed and connections increased and hosting became cheaper. AND it became easier to get online and into online porn. The main focus of porn sponsors was to out do each other to entice affiliates to send traffic. Mostly by giving away the product for free. Ratios sucked and people boasted of converting 1-200 surfers. Yet money from offline porn was coming across and the picture looked fine.
This kept rolling till 2007/8. When the industry started slowly to implode. BW was so cheap Tube sites could give away the product for free to sell adverts (traffic) and a few paysite joins. Few converted better than 1-2,000 surfers. Still some money for those who got in quick.
Then connections in places we could sell to slowed, Tube traffic grew, ratios overall in all of online porn were getting much worse. Some switched to Dating and Cams.
Buyers started to realise paid Dating sites are often a money pit and free cams took over.
2012 the exodus from porn is increasing, 2013 will be worse.
The realisation is hitting people that if they had kept the business model of 1998 and given away little free porn. They would all be very wealthy. Instead of looking for 9-5 jobs offline.
OK a few left are going to tell me it isn't like that. And tell people to sign up to their site. And a few will still believe them.
