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Originally Posted by GatorB
So much of a problem that people that were posting her 7 years ago are still here working in the biz. And still making money I assume. I guess "free porn" is the AIDS of the adult web. Sure it will eventually kill you it'll just take 20 years.
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Free porn has always been around and will always be around.
The determining factor in how much porn is given away is the cost of bandwidth.
If you look at the history of our business, you'll notice that the rise of the TGP happened at about the same time that adult hosts started selling cogent bandwidth.
TGP's had been around long before that, but they didn't have alot of content because galleries weren't online very long...the bandwidth bills were too high. Link Lists still dominated the traffic for awhile after TGP's started.
When bandwidth prices dropped, TGP's got flooded with galleries, because now gallery builders could make a profit.
Same thing with tubes. They've been around awhile....I found a thread yesterday about "killing pornotube.com before it gets any bigger" that was started in 2006.
They didn't grow to the levels they're at today until bandwidth prices dropped to 6, 5, and 4 per meg.
It's same shit different year....the only difference is how many zeroes on the price of things and whether we're measuring free porn in kb, mb, gb, or tb.