To the less able internet user EVERYTHING comes from Google.
Search for
porn gets me 3 tube sites as the first results.
Until you can overcome that with a winning Google position OR a way of making tube sites frowned upon anybody new to the internet is being pointed in the direction of everything for free without even trying.
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Originally Posted by CyberAge-Dave
We really need to spread the word that free porn is what causes Viruses, maybe that will stick in their head and they can spread the word.
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Well you can make sites that deliberately fuck peoples computer and install one of those you've got a virus now buy our solution scam things then get media attention saying free porn is dangerous BUT I don't think you will convert someone who is messed about like that from free to paying I think you are more likely to get into another round of hysterical porn is the work of the devil nonsense hurting paysites too.
Not an internetty thing but attitudes can be changed it just normally takes actual force rather than choice. When I was little cars didn't have seatbelts, now when I drive around not wearing one people will make a point of telling me I'm a cunt. Same with drink driving too, nobody used to give a shit and now its a very bad thing. Currently they are trying to do the same thing with speeding and making out that going over the artificially low speed limit is going to kill you and although most regular business drivers can see through it as just a money making opportunity on fines there are a huge amount of casual drivers that are letting themselves be brainwashed about it and then repeating what they have been fed.
Now try doing all that with free porn. You have to make it both illegal with huge punishment AND kill polar bears, so you stop the distribution both on a free sharing is going to get you in trouble way and also a socially responsible smug git way too.
Can't see that happening.
What I can see happening though for tubes is some sort of conversion from giving it all away free to once you have a regular visitor base that is always coming back to your site you introduce a fee. I've seen warez sites shut the doors to members and get a nice income off of selling VIP to get back in so I'm sure it could work for tubes too.
Its an old business model anyway to build up on stolen/free then turn it over to being all legal just not everybody can do it in a money making way.
If tubes all start charging then the circle comes back around to paysites getting members just because people will begin to get used to porn requires a fee. The only problem is that now bandwidth is so cheap you will always have a few people with no business sense that will chase pageview stats rather than profit (still havn't seen any money stats on the person who complained about thehun).
Music used to only come as a whole tape/record/cd then there was Napster and now people seem happy to buy a lot of individual tracks. Not sure how to follow that example but it must be possible somehow.