Originally Posted by signupdamnit

With all due respect it isn't and is entirely different. From what I see you're fairly new to adult. Your join date is a few months ago and all your sites seem new too as do your affiliate links seem to show high user id numbers so I surmise that you probably weren't in this industry even a year or two ago let alone five. There's nothing wrong with that but I think most people who have been in the industry for a while understand the question and what I am getting at. You just don't have very much to compare it to and you're still a bit of a newbie to the industry. You're probably comparing the way things are now to how they were in December 2011 which is entirely different than comparing now to December 1998 or even December 2005.

There's no need to make up a reason when many of the people leaving have said straight out why they are getting out. It's usually some variation of "everything is available for free", "everything of mine is stolen", "I can make more money in mainstream now because adult hardly sells anymore", etc. Which brings us back to the question of if all these people could make money hand over fist (more than they made before in the Golden or silver years of porn) simply by posting a few full length clips from their member's area why would they not do that if it were so easy and guaranteed? The common sense answer is that it isn't for most. Sure there are some cases where it's different and sure someone who wasn't even making one sale a day in the past might benefit but this is not the case for most established people in the adult business.