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This will not get any better without government regulation prohibiting freely accessable porn. There's another biz in the mature stages of this same situation... the radio biz.
When the radio biz first started, musicians/labels made 2 minute songs to give them to play on the radio which promotes their album. They give these songs to radio for little to no money. Since radio makes money by advertising instead of sharing record sales (sound familiar?) it had to get more competitive so they could charge more for ads. The radio stations started asking for longer songs that had familiar pop elements that were easy for the masses to get to like quickly. These stations were making unhealthy demands to the musicians whose music they need to survive. No music, no radio station. Does that sound familiar?
This led to tons of pop drivel being made and played for free over and over again. It hurt and helped record sales at the same time. People bought albums but some artists don't get as lucky since the public hears all the good songs from their album over and over all day so they don't buy those albums, they just turn on the radio (sounds like popular content on TGP's huh?)
All the while the big fat radio corporations continue to make tons of money off of ads. The only musicians that win in this situation are the super talented ones (I mean the best new pop formulas).
Radio programmers would love to play the songs that mean something but no one is going to change this arrangement at all because if they start doing it the competition would just play the proven winners - britney/n-sync/Nelly all day long and kill them in ratings. So no one will change this situation.
As this situation progresses in net porn, only the cream will rise to the top. The newest pop-idea or the most different ones will be what wins. Bang Bus was an obvious example. We can't stop this train so all you can do is make your stuff stand out by spending even more money than before or come up with the killer idea ala Bang Bus.
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