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Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by consto »

nkurz wrote: post #7

Presumably the link is really to the first answer ( https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-free-porn-on-the-... ), which points out that the porn Tube sites got their site by distributing stolen content, and then leveraging their high traffic into closer-to-legal business strategy: Then, the pay sites whose content had been stolen and was now being given away for free, took notice (slower than they should have),…

From my rather limited understanding, it's basically how crunchyroll also got started.

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Post by forapurpose »

Overtonwindow wrote: post #9

I think the future or porn (i.e. The money) is in personalization. Porn for you, by your favorite performers, customized to your liking. The cam sites are the best positioned to capitalize on this but only if they start bringing order to the Wild West of cams.

> personalization

Apparently it's already a widespread business and The Guardian published this article about it. It's an amazing, at times heart-breaking story about what people need, and in a way it's only tangentially about porn:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/29/jon-ronson-b...

(It's not at all a catalog of fetishes, in case that's what you expect/want/fear.)

Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by shams93 »

Also the condom law further fragmented the industry just when tube sites were hitting. DVD sales plunged from 150k average per release to 15k in sales no industry call handle a 90% plunge in income. The tube sites are run from Germany so you can't necessarily get content taken down even if you sue. Porn Valley is no more besides a handful of custom content businesses and the huge companies like Vivid porn as a small startup business is absolutely dead. Like music you have the old 70s dinosaurs still working but the path from startup to porn star business is blocked. The new content is amateur driven all the controls to prevent underage actors and HIV testing are gone so it's an utter mess and basically a dead industry.

Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by teddyh »

Isn’t the answer obvious? The answer is the same as the answer to the question “Why is there so much free everything on the internet?”

The answer is that copying is cheap – in fact almost free – and products in markets with lots of competition tend to converge to its marginal cost, which in this case is zero.

Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by [deleted] »

nkurz wrote: post #7

Presumably the link is really to the first answer ( https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-free-porn-on-the-... ), which points out that the porn Tube sites got their site by distributing stolen content, and then leveraging their high traffic into closer-to-legal business strategy: Then, the pay sites whose content had been stolen and was now being given away for free, took notice (slower than they should have),…

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Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

prophesi wrote: post #4
krisroadruck wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nah, VR porn is just getting started and that catalog is tiny. The Adult industry isn't going anywhere.

The porn industry is also often at the forefront of innovation. They've likely played a huge part in the recent advancements in VR/AR.

Back when I was doing my degree, the majority of the internet was still porn. This was approx 13 years ago. Porn will be OK.

Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by digi_owl »

krisroadruck wrote: post #3
hacknat wrote: post #2

Interesting take. I think Louis CK had a joke in his last special about how “We can stop making new porn now”. Sounds like that might be what’s happening. The idea that an industry might contract and die because it’s historic catalog and free competing content are eating its market share isn’t totally new, but the interesting moral ramifications for this particular industry are noteworthy.

Nah, VR porn is just getting started and that catalog is tiny. The Adult industry isn't going anywhere.

Ran into an article right after Google released Cardboard, where some students had made their own VR porn using a pair of Gopros as an experiment. They claimed that even with such a simple setup the result made them find traditional porn boring.

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Post by brian-armstrong »

nkurz wrote: post #7

Presumably the link is really to the first answer ( https://www.quora.com/Why-is-there-so-much-free-porn-on-the-... ), which points out that the porn Tube sites got their site by distributing stolen content, and then leveraging their high traffic into closer-to-legal business strategy: Then, the pay sites whose content had been stolen and was now being given away for free, took notice (slower than they should have),…

Amusingly, even YouTube wants you to forget about this part of its past now, and instead pretend it is and always has been the haven of content creating indies.

Re: Why is there so much free porn on the internet? (2016)

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Post by earenndil »

teddyh wrote: post #15

Isn’t the answer obvious? The answer is the same as the answer to the question “Why is there so much free everything on the internet?” The answer is that copying is cheap – in fact almost free – and products in markets with lots of competition tend to converge to its marginal cost, which in this case is zero.

Ok but consider, e.g., movies. Yes, there are free websites, but they're not exactly legal or mainstream in the way that free porn sites are.
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