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I hit the streets of San Francisco to ask strangers their favorite search terms for online pornography. It was not hard to get answers, even on the record.
"Teacher porn, student-teacher fantasy," Jason Ravel says at a coffee shop. "That's who I was around most often in grade school. I was a really good student."
Chanelle Dorton, who's passing by a train station, is into ebony lesbian sex. "I don't like straight porn," she says.
Cab driver Neel Bell likes "heterosexual porn that doesn't involve porn stars. It lets you think that it's a real-life situation more."
But just about everyone I ask says he or she never, ever pays for it. "Never pay for porn, never pay for sex," Bell says. "I guess I'm a cheapskate when it comes down to it. I download all my music, too."
That is exactly the porn industry's problem, says Internet . Acworth is founder of Kink.com, a San Francisco porn conglomerate that had 205 million page views last year.
"We're suffering what happened to the music industry a while back. It's becoming much more easy to get content for free and people are less apt to want to pay for it," he says.
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But because of piracy and an explosion of free sites, the heyday is over. Global revenue plummeted by 50 percent from 2007 to 2011, the porn industry trade group Free Speech Coalition . Kink.com saw a decline in revenue for the first time in 2011.
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http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechcons...ies-new-tricks
I originally had a long outraged commentary on this but I think I'm going to forgo that and just ask WHY if the people at the top saw these trends over the last three or four years why did they not do anything about it or even come on here and speak out about all the piracy?
I'm not singling out Kink, it's everyone at the top. But I made a lot of money with kink up until about 2010 or 2011 when things just suddenly stopped for my affiliate conversions. I looked around and I happened to notice that their content was all over the tubes and at the same time there seemed to be a different feel about how they started dealing with affiliates. As if they felt they no longer needed us. Strange. that was about the time business took a dive for them. Hmmm?
Anyway is there anyone at the top of porn who is willing to admit that THEY fucked up and they should have done more to stop the piracy? Just curious.