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Originally Posted by mikesouth
I have to agree with Paul in that porn valley was porn valleys biggest enemy. When they could have nipped the tubes in the bud they didn't because they never valued their content beyond the first 30-60 days.
they thought that DVD sales would outstrip VHS sales (didnt happen) and that streaming would always be low quality they were hit with a near perfect storm.....fast internet became widely available, computers became capable of decoding complex video compression codecs at a reasonable price and consumers abandoned the video store model....across the board. This is not to say tube sites didnt play a huge role in killing the biz...they did.
The industry was poised to make good money via internet delivery but the glut of porn and the porn valley producers willing to sell the rights to material not even a year old for peanuts added to outright content theft by Manwin and others added up to consumers who thought porn should be free...because....well...it was free.
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By the time Tubes appeared offline porn was on its last legs. It was online porn's inability to close ranks and bring down Tubes that's to blame.
A DVD with 5/6 scenes costs $30. A membership to a site with 500/600 scenes costs $30 and many of those sites allowed te user to download everything in a month. Losing the customer for months. And allowing him to share the content.
A TGP site with 100,000s of images was free. A magazine had 50 pictures and costs $8.
Online porn did everything it possibly could to give away free porn. counting the 1 in 100s who paid as a win, denying the 100s would ever buy porn.
If only we had stuck with link lists back in 1998 and reaped the huge rewards of all that traffic. But that would have meant admitting free traffic, no payment, wasn't king.
Imagine converting 1-100 views on the 100s of millions on link lists or review sites. Instead of 1-10,000s on a Tube site.