Funny this got bumped. I was doing some research on other forums to see what people thought of porn in regards to money. Starting in 2011 the general consensus in most IM forums other than GFY has been that porn membership sites were largely dead particularly for the little guy/affiliate. But you started to see people saying this increasingly in 2008 too. Now I noticed very few are focusing on adult dating or cams either and that seems to be declining as well for the little guy and for whatever reason. That's just what I see from trends people are posting on other IM forums besides GFY. You can see it by using search and typing in a few program names. Often you will see that many of these dating or cams programs peeked around 2006 in webmaster interest. Around laste 2009/early 2010 there was a rather large drop off. Similarly in early 2012 there was another moderate drop off.
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Originally Posted by notinmybackyard
Yes it has.
If you talk to any of the studios you will discouver that Youtube is on the top 10 enemy list with sites like the pirate bay, etc.
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Youtube really isn't that bad though. Compared to the tubes in our industry (at least how things were a few years ago there may have been some improvement recently) they are angels. They have a fingerprinting system which catches about 40% of content from major studios. The studio is then allowed to block the content or allow the content to stay up but they can monetize it by running commercials and banners. The money then goes to the studio. Some use it to show previews of their new movies.
For the things which miss the fingerprinting Youtube gives the uploader three strikes. After the second strike the ability to upload is removed for some time. After three strikes the account is terminated and all videos are removed. The weakness here is that pros will simply open another account. However Youtube does honestly seem to try to prevent people from opening another account and you do see people complain about getting chain banned where all their accounts are removed. They can't touch the people buying hundreds of phone verified accounts but they do try and I would say at least Youtube makes an honest effort.