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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
With the recent economic crisis anyone who advocates self regulation by any industry has to be smoking some pretty good stuff. Pass the roach.
Are you sure self regulation would get rid of any of the the above?
And that's the hole in your argument, did self regulation or even laws stop Enron and everyone else involved in inflating stocks so they could pay themselves massive bonuses? No we need governments to regulate us or we will all take advantage. It's not 100% but it's better than nothing.
Governments need to sit down together and resolve the situation with the Internet, content and business. It's a great way to make or lose money, it's a great way to communicate, it's also a great way to abuse the system. As you point out.
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I think if we all agreed to put porn behind a processor .. which won't happen of course, we'd all be alot richer.
Imagine, even a 40% reduction in free porn would mean higher bottom lines for ALL of us... and more would save the industry from becoming little more than an advertising medium. I see all these tube sites and wonder why we can't just slap a processor in there, and for the first time we'd actually be offering surfers a good members area
but for some reason they're fucking FREE!
Pretty soon (if we're not there already, I suspect we're close) the ONLY way to make money off sites will be selling advertising, and the question there is to WHO? cause noones got any fucking money anymore..
You can say "speak for yourself" but I read this board almost daily, the writing's on the wall, people are suffering, long time webmasters are disappearing at an alarming rate, Bigger sites are swallowing smaller sites that used to turn a profit and now are being sold because the owners aren't making enough money to live.
I know we can't regulate ourselves, but a little common sense would be nice.
This industry is a bunch of cut throat losers that'd sell porn to kids in a second if it'll help beat the competition.
I imagine the gov's will band together slowly and block porn all together, unless some of us ( majority ) do something to get it all under control.
I don't understand what makes us all think that free shit will make us more money.
I remember the days where you had to search and search and search for porn, and I'd pay for it after getting frustrated enough.. Today, I jerk off at tube8 and that's not changing till it's gone
Sadly our surfers are doing the same, and the majority of us are in here saying it's not happening "Content is King" " find good content and they'll pay" are you guys BLIND? that good content is ALL over the fucking tubes .. such a heap of bullshit.