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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
We worked for magazines as our primary business they were as good as dead when we retired.
If I had to work we would have shot something to the level Perfect Gonzo and others were shooting. Girls fucking themselves with large dildos vaginal and anal. Mostly boy/girl and lesbian. Whether we had opened a paysite or sold it via the stores or exclusive would be a hard decision because Tubes were starting to hurt so many.
What am I wrong about? Programming, webmastering most certainly not my field and I never comment in those threads. Porn is something I've worked in for decades, you learn a lot in that time.
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see - the thing is, and I always openly admitted that, we tried the whole B2C thing and failed miserably.
We did DVD production, we tried websites - actually our sites are still online and now that they are managed by someone else, they make some extra money on the side:
CzechSuperStars.com - Passsite
But what I also know, is that on the B2B production side we did pretty well for more than a decade.
And because of that I was able to leave the porn business and have the funds to invest in a totally new and different business.
Because I wanted to but also because I know that the business is fundamentally changing from the old structure of people like us producing something which is then consumed by many to performers taking their business into their own hands.
Also because many of them realized that being paid peanuts for a handful of scenes which then go all over the place and ruin their lifes is not the way to go anymore.
What you fail to acknowledge, but what everyone else understands, is that just because people like you or me are in decline, it does not mean that the whole industry is shrinking. Because it isn't.
And no, you could not have done what Perfect Gonzo did, neither could we.