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Originally Posted by The Ghost
IMO there's many mistakes are made by guys in the business for the last 10 -30 years who had no idea how to transition online. Whoring out their content to brokers and not policing it AT ALL. Slowly but surely their solid media market has all but shriveled up and died.
A direct quote from a huge player in adult, circa 2000 (to show their mindset)
"the internet is a fad"
Head down, work hard and make something that's worth a shit. Keep up with the times and future technologies. Market and protect accordingly.
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My product is not on line. I have examined the issue and I am not going to put it on line. I do not have to because my business is profitable and has been growing since 2007. (Albiet less than 0,5% per year) 40 years of experience and my worst year on record is still 1981 - 1982.
I will not speak for the actual actions of my united states counter-parts save to say that their problems appear to me to be too much of a cowboy attitude and too many people involved in their industry. The Internet just amplified these problems to the maximum.
The Internet is just one medium in which we can deliver our product to our customers. It has some advantages over some of what you call the old fashioned ways. But it also has many disadvantages. Like anything else it is not a one size fits all solution and in my business there are 2 problems 1) file lockers and 2) the gypsies in europe that download from those file lockers and burn and sell my films for 2 euros on the streets. Any online presence would only further amplify these problems.
Technology is unpredictable, unstable, changes in unimaginable ways and both empowers and emboldens unskilled idiots with delusions of grandeur. It is like the snake that eats it's own tail and for this reason alone the Internet can be called a fad. My proof is that 95% of the people on this forum alone are trying to make enough money just to pay their rent. The web kiddies are a dying race and they are dissappearing at a fast increasing rate.
The slogan on the Internet is « adapt or die ». Well that is bullshit. The correct expression is
« learn how to look after your own business and stop worrying about trying to keep up with what others are doing or die ». Or as you americains would say * smarten the fuck up or get the fuck out of the way*