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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Like what?
It's all very well to sit there and say "do something about it" but what do you suggest. The Industries reaction to Tubes was to make 1,000s of Tube sites, give away long previews and often host them. That's not going to stop the pirates, it only teaches surfers Tubes are their answer.
Yes the industry needs to change, how is the big question. It needs to be change the buyers like and will get them back.
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Our Industry changes based on technologies and micro-technologies within the main technology. As technology fades away so does porn being created for that medium.
Website Internet Porn isn't dead but it's fading away as new technology and micro-technologies take over the focus. You can sell porn magazines, just not like you once could. Same with porn websites, and it isn't because of free porn.
It's because of technology, it's always been technology... Mobile porn is sky rocketing, sells better and can easily outsell the main paysites, and it's only 5% of "Porn" Internet traffic. Another market is application/widgets and it's exploding. Then being social on social networks, creating communities, groups, and sharing/helping people 'actually' does work and that's a micro-technology within the Internet that is larger than all of porn. This goes on and on and on with Porn and Technology. Even illegal and legal tubes are a micro-technology.
Porn always been more than just 'the Internet' or just one technology... that isn't something we decide, it's something the people decide for us.
15 years ago people in 'mainstream' porn had no idea wtf to do about the Internet or build sites... However some of us had the drive to figure it out and we made millions. The new technology today is just like the Internet 15 years ago, it's a huge WTF is going on with this crap - but once you figure it out, it's millions.
The Industry can "never" change the habits of the surfers, buyers, or free loaders.. however it can ride technology jumps allowing it to find new markets larger than porn and many of those markets 'force the buy' as the only way to get good or any porn on that technology.
That's what adapt or die is... you work in an Industry that changes every few years, it has "problems like" the fashion industry that you can never change - you must adapt - if you sit and do the same thing for too many years, you will be left in the dust and forgotten about.