Interesting article about how the internet killed porn

[DamianJ]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/20...et-killed-porn

[Paul Markham]

Interesting article thanks for posting it.

And as goes the industry, so go the performers. It's well known that many of them come into porn looking for validation, fleeing lives of damage and abuse. They then sign up to a lifestyle that inflicts stress and illness, not to mention embarrassment, on its young foot soldiers, while offering nothing in the way of pensions and health insurance. Now they find themselves out of work, looking for a Plan B, when the only experience on their resumé is having sex for cash.

I wonder how many affiliates and sponsors have trouble getting decent employment when it becomes clear they spent 10 years pushing porn sites. Having a 5 to 15 year gap in a CV that can't be explained will make getting a job tough for some.

These questions underpin a much bigger dilemma being faced by all media: how do you sustain an industry that provides a certain standard of product ? be it journalism, music, or mainstream movies, or X-rated movies ? when more and more consumers are in the habit of downloading content for free? In the world of porn, the answer is: you can't.

Which is why they will find a method to crush piracy.

What he didn't cover was the earlier impact online porn was having to the industry. Magazines couldn't compete with TGPs. Many DVD producers had their product selling at 5-6 scenes for $25 or more. Websites were selling 100s of scenes for $30. Downloading a scene took 30 minutes, install an "Auto download detector" and BW throttle and it pissed off people who thought they could get the whole site for $30 and not buy again for months.

Free legal.

Sites selling a years viewing for $30. (Yes I understand what we thought we were selling, it's what the buyer thought that makes the difference.)

Piracy.

Spread the money to thin.

All a recipe for disaster.

[martinsc]

what is porn?

[NewNick]

Internet ?

[JFK]

Originally Posted by NewNick

Internet ?

it's the thingie Al Gore invented

[Rochard]

Porn hasn't been killed. It's been transformed.

It's just like the music industry. We used to buy music in a record store, and now they are all gone and we buy our music online.

People are still buying porn. In droves. The old market is dead.