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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
And what funds the free videos on Redtube and free galleries on The Hun?
Look into the problem.
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Simple, advertising. As of right now it is still working. They are still selling memberships to dating sites and live cams and even some paysites so giving away all this content for free is not hurting their bottom line. They might not have as good of rations as other sites could, but clearly they are doing well enough to make them want to keep giving it away for free.
If there comes a day that the number of people what join various sites from these tube sites drops to where they are making little or no money from it then they will be forced to change.
One of the biggest culprits in the free porn world is cheap bandwidth. I now pay $8 a month for hosting that is 10 times better than what I paid $100 a month for in 2000. If hosting costs were the same today as they were 10-12 years ago tube sites likely wouldn't exist.