Originally Posted by signupdamnit

Compared to the porn companies the record companies are geniuses. You didn't see the record companies secretly starting Napster and The Pirate Bay while telling their decades old business partners the independent record stores that they are "broke losers who need to adapt or die, free is here to stay". But that's what exactly happened in porn.

People in our own industry started the very sites which helped to cripple the paysite model. It would be like Time Warner secretly starting the pirate bay. There is a reason they didn't do that and the reason is that they aren't fucking morons and they actually have a real business education. In our industry many people on top just roll around in coke all day, kiss each other's asses on the forums and buy drinks for their fellow bros at the shows. It's been going on for years. Well finally it's catching up to us have cokeheads and morons running the show. The hilarity is that even now many still don't get it or at least they pretend not to. Every single paysite sponsor and affiliate ought to be in here telling Fabian and others "Screw you! Get the stolen stuff off your site now". That should have been happening in 2006 but even today we still don't see it. We're collectively idiots. Let's face it.