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Over the thirteen years I've been in the industry, I've seen this same cycle
repeat several times. Free porn has been here since the beginning, and
since the beginning those trying to earn a living have complained about it.
Several things have been tried, only one thing has worked at all.
As mentioned, new laws have had little effect because they only hurt the industry
in the country that passes the law. This isn't speculation, it's been done.
In the US, Clinton did the CDA and COPA. That scared the _US_ webmasters a bit.
Neither was enforced much before the court struck them down, but we've
seen more enforcement elsewhere, such as what we've seen in Australia.
No law has ever reduced free porn, only made the thieves and webmasters
in that one country a little nervous.
There is one thing that worked somewhat well from roughly 1996-2002 or so.
It didn't eliminate "free" stolen content, but it did keep the problem under control.
Deny them the resources they need - hosting, advertising, banner money, etc.
In those days, the thieves were separate from the legitimate adult industry.
We would not aid or assist them in any way, nor would we tolerate anyone who did.
In that time, the thieves couldn't buy advertising on GFY, because if GFY accepted
advertising from them, GFY would then be considered to be in partnership
with thieves and no legitimate webmaster would have anything to do with GFY after that.
For a time, the thieves couldn't join any affiliate programs, except a couple
run by thieves who would themselves steal from the thieves who were their
affiliates. Legitimate affiliate programs would not accept them. If someone
started accepting thieves as affiliates, all of their legitimate affiliates would leave.
The few programs that accepted thieves as affiliates were scumbags who themselves scammed the user, scammed their affiliates, etc. so they went
out of business pretty quickly.
Same thing with hosting - web hosts would not host the thieves. If they did, the
rest of us had enough integrity not to buy hosting from that company. We'd also
send notices to their upstream provider. The upstream would at some point
figure out that providing bandwidth to that host wasn't worth the hassle.
Besides, if the host has no one but thieves as customers, those thieving
customers often won't pay the hosting bill, and those hosts didn't last long.
Same thing for software, etc. Don't buy or sell anything to the thieves, nor
with the people who consort with thieves. If the thieves can only interact with
each other, they will rip each other off often enough to keep the problem under control.
Not one person reading this can claim that they've done that to the best of
their ability, because you are reading this on GFY after GFY accepted thousands of dollars in advertising from a tube site. So if you're reading this,
you have not done your part.
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