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Originally Posted by Some Guy
It seems to me, and I could be wrong, that the same thing is happening to the porn industry that happened to the music industry years ago. When people started downloading music for free the music industry starting hurting pretty bad. What did the music industry do to combat this? They started suing left and right and made it harder and harder for people to illegally share music. It didn't eradicate all of pirating but it took care of the major violators (Napster, Kazaa, Limewire) and now most people just buy their music again via iTunes. Perhaps it's time that the adult industry follow suit and starts going after the big tube sites?
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you bring up great points. true, music companies sued, but that didnt do shit. napster died, but the freeloaders are as big as ever, just on new sites. & despite the growing freeloader community, apple launched itunes, & became one of the top music retailers. Why? because they provided something record companies failed to provide, a song for a buck instead of 1 good song & 12 useless ones for 18 bucks. point being, there is still a market for music despite freesites, its just the pie is smaller.
i dont think the answer is to sue tubes. this is like what apple is doing, trying to stop samsung by suing them over patents on obvious features. patent abuse is a whole nother topic, but companies that are trying to protect their fiefdom, stifle change engage in this tactic.
the paysite will NEVER be like 1999. just like selling ICBMs will NEVER be like 1961, & selling music CDs will never be like 1989. Just gotta understand shifts in the market & work with them instead of fight them.