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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So many dreamers and it took 15 posts for someone to come up with the reason the idea would fail if we were legislated to put all porn behind a CC verification and blocks those who did not comply. If in the dream world of anti Tubes legislation did happen, the Tubes would charge $1 for a life times membership.
Here's why porn tubes are killing this industry.
1. The customers prefer them to what paid porn offers.
2. They make a profit.
So the real solution is simple and something we can control. Yes we have to adapt or die.
1. Produces sites and memberships at a price the customers will pay for.
Most sites are not what the customer wants for a 30 day recurring membership. If this were not true they wouldn't be choosing Tubes over paysites.
2. Attack the ways Tubes are making a profit.
By giving away or reducing the price of live web cam and dating sites inside the members area. The sponsor and affiliates has already earned from the member and does not need to earn from the upsell. They needs to take away the customers from Tube sites.
Will my solutions mean people may earn less in the short term? Yes, but short term thinking is what got us into this mess.
In the years Tubes have been taking members can anyone seriously say what paysites have done to adapt to the challenge?
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So to summarise:
1. Tubes charging $1 for entry would not affect their traffic much? Well they sure as hell wouldn't be getting 16 million pageviews per day as they are now. It sounds like a good start to me and it would let people know that this shit isn't always free.
2.
"The customers prefer them to what paid porn offers." errr yes I think that has been established.
3.
"Produces sites and memberships at a price the customers will pay for" Well unfortunately Paul, that figure they are prepared to pay is increasingly $0. As I have said above, any user with the ability to type 'porn' into Google can find the tubes, and once someone has been to the tubes they are unlikely to ever pay again.
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"Attack the ways Tubes are making a profit." You suggest paysite owners adding things to their members area. I am not sure how this attacks tubes. This wouldn't be so effective if people dont sign up in the first place.
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"Children can sign up using their parents credit card" Yes, a CC is not 100% protection but I would guess it would be somewhere in the 99% range. When I was a kid, I wouldn't have used my parents CC to sign up. Some measures arent 100% effective but they are implemented anyhow (speeding fines, airport security etc).
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"anti-porners would work with porners and just as silly to think elected officials would join forces with us as well" It all really depends how it is done. If you introduced yourself as the producer of the movie "Ass Rapers IV" and tell them how you run Gay Felching sites they probably wont want to talk to you. On the other hand, if you were professional about it and lobbied in a smart way, there is no reason influence couldnt be had. This would be a great story for the media - porn professionals who want to stop kids seeing things they shouldn't.