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Originally Posted by Mutt
i always use myself to gauge things - i have always been very good at gauging public opinion and behaviour by my own example, if I like something I know that a large segment of the public is going to like it eventually, if I do something I know that a large segment of the publice is already doing it or will soon be doing it.
i join paysites, always have - a few a year. so a couple of months ago I stumbled on a porn movie that turned out to be one of Pierre Woodman's infamous casting sessions, got that information right here on GFY - this was the best porn movie i've seen, for me anyway. I had no idea who Pierre Woodman was really other than I knew he was a big name in European adult movie industry. So I wanted to find more movies like the one I had watched and did my research - then I went to PierreWoodman.com and I was ready to join it just to grab more of his Casting Session videos. He has one of those tours that show you every movie that is in the members area - there weren't as many of these movies as I expected, for some reason he stopped making them in 2003. So I sat at my computer and was debating joining - a year ago i would definitely would have just joined - but this time I decided to go check out a tube site, and typed in 'Pierre Woodman Casting' in the search box .... and voila ....... every casting movie I had seen on his paysite tour was on the tube site, about 30 of them. I've watched them all ... without joining the paysite.
tube sites are taking a good chunk of the customers who used to pay for porn. Rapidshare is actually worse. Tube videos thankfully are still pretty poor quality, most tube sites don't offer downloads. Rapidshare on the other hand gets you the movies usually in a very high quality AVI format. the people who pay for porn want quality and they get that from forums with Rapidshare hosted files.
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Good post, someone who gets it. And saying all that doesn't mean you yourself aren't williing to adapt and that your business is dying. It says that you see what's going on and are willing to point out the problem and discuss it rather than just sitting around ignoring it. Nothing at all wrong with that.
Seems every time someone raises this discussion there's a bunch of others who trot out the "adapt and quit whining" argument. However, I would not be surprised if one of these days a coalition of program owners and content providers doesn't form to collectively pursue the illegal tubes. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already to be honest, because you can't have a situation where a company produces a load of fresh full-length porn movies, updates their sites with them, then within a few days those movies in their entirety are all over the web, basically stolen and given away for free. It's not right, I don't care how guys like gideon gallery spin it, and if the day comes that the people responsible are ever taken to task and slapped down majorly in a court of law I will cheer at the top of my lungs.
Until then or even if it never happens, I'll continue doing what most of us should be doing....
adapting.