03-25-2018, 11:37 AM
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Big porn tubes will never die...
Just read this article and have an idea how MindGeek works
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Eventually, Pornhub would launch a content partner program, letting third parties market their wares on the site. If you watched a clip from a specific studio, you'd be directed back to its site and encouraged to sign up for a paid-for subscription. There was only one downside: Mindgeek claims 50 percent of that cash as commission.
Mindgeek stands accused of becoming a behemoth on a diet of pirated content, but its size gave it enormous power. It held smaller studios hostage, forcing them to either engage in what Rowntree calls the DMCA "whac-a-mole" or let them take 50 percent of the sales. That hasn't worked out well for sites like Wasteland, and Rowntree believes that his income has fallen by more than 35 percent. Rowntree also accuses Pornhub of being aggressively laissez-faire with respect to pirated clips from its partner program members -- a charge Pornhub refutes.
If you visit Wasteland's free Pornhub channel, you'll see that the studio has uploaded 798 clips, which have been viewed a combined 35,469,654 times. Rowntree said that his staff, and the performers in the videos, have directly received nothing. "You get a banner underneath your movie, and if somebody clicks on it and buys, then we get the honor of paying the tube back 50 percent of the revenue." Rowntree added that the sites "do send members, but it's not significant -- it's certainly nothing like it used to be."
Not everyone agrees with Rowntree. Evil Angel's Adam Grayson called Mindgeek "the most civilized [tube site] of the bunch." He added that he doesn't think the site is "such an egregious violator of [his] intellectual property rights," and that he likes the fact that it has offices in Canada. As for the matter of piracy itself, Grayson believes that free porn and the proliferation of tube sites are just a "reality of the business." Grayson feels that the content hosted by tube sites are, essentially, advertising. "If Pornhub gets $100,000 of market value from our clips, and we only get $10,000, then I have no other way to rationalize it that the other $90,000 was marketing."
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https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/23/...k-online-porn/ |
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