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Just mulling something over in my head and realised there is a huge black hole in this area - someone correct me if i'm wrong....

If there are no demographics on age group of eg tube users, how can anyone say if lost sales are due to tubes? It's illegal in most countries to display porn to minors (<18yrs) yet I'm pretty sure (a hunch) a good % of porn internet surfers are <18yrs old. Most 12-18yr olds are extremely internet savvy. So I ask myself, where is the leak coming from?

This is probably very naïve, but it seems to join a site, you need a credit card, so this eliminates most <18s unless Dad never cares to check his statements. Therefore the leaks are not on members, but businesses, right? Going back to the problem of industry theft in tubes being rife.

The law in some countries allows porn to be viewed by a simple "I am over 18" click and bam, free porn. As if that's age verification pfffft. But what's the argument again against real verification of someone's age.... besides the underhand tactic of CC validation, and then the fraud x-sells etc after. I think we're passed that right?

If someone <18 was viewing stolen content, you don't care because they could never be a member of your site right?

To give an example of my point - if age demographics were available and the stats showed this:
1,000,000 people in total polled
30% of all porn viewers were <18
85% of all tube porn viewers were <18
then there is no problem, since you are only losing 7-8% of real sales to tubes. I do agree, it's still a lot, but not at the moment disastrous.

Where it becomes disastrous is when that age group gets a cc and knows nothing but free porn. Then the balance changes enormously.

So why not shout at an industry level for real age verification to be able to see porn? Bring back the good old days of porn being on the top shelf where it could only be gotten when old enough to reach it...

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