Originally Posted by Paul Markham

I see the funny side of this thread.

Porn always was controlled by big businesses. The Internet provided a way, for a very short while, a lot of little Ma & Pa operations could earn a living in it.

Prior to 2000 and maybe later the big money was in owning a porn shop, a chain of them was a money machine. They were supplied with products from major companies because the little Ma & Pa simply couldn't compete on sales to warrant shelf space. Anyone who sold porn prior to 2000 offline would know this.

Then for a very short time little operations could put up a site or drive traffic to a site and earn a living. Still they found it hard to compete with the bigger dogs who would just outsell them. They could spend more on sites, programming, product, traffic and squeeze the little men out.

There are still a few, look at their product to see why they are surviving. Yes and a few small affiliates, they both have to be doing something 100s of others can't do to survive.

The Internet is returning to that.

Mainstream FB boasts 900 million "friends" is that people registered there or people who actually post/read or people who post/read and click on ads?