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Post by tacLog »

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #707
tacLog wrote: post #674

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I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions. EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time. From…

It does make some sense that movies which have been available for three years could have more downloads than movies which have been available for one year.

I didn't think of this at all. This throws the tenuous conclusions I was drawing completely out the window.

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Post by kazinator »

sbilstein wrote: post #700
bobthechef wrote: post #311

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> COVID hit recently graduated Gen-Z incredibly hard. Gen-Z is less sexually active than previous generations. Significantly so. They've been exposed to porn at an earlier age (owing to earlier access to the internet and the ubiquity of pornography online). Porn use was already common among them. The lockdown made things worse, but the status quo was already in place. > There's huge groups that are/were unemployed an…

what? most folks have looked at porn. most folks end up just alright.

People turned out all right even when it was possible to watch bloody executions in the streets of what is now the developed world.

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Post by throwawaylolx »

judge2020 wrote: post #767
throwawaylolx wrote: post #730

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>mixed with religious driven activism against sex work. Is there any evidence that this played any significant part or is it just a conspiracy theory? The CEO said: >“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,” >Stokely claimed OnlyFans had been unfairly targeted by media reports into “incidents of illegal content” that failed to mention how porn-free social media platforms grapple with simil…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28304164

That's just a link dump. Is there any evidence that their campaign is linked to the decisions made by OF?

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Post by salamandersauce »

jstanley wrote: post #607
da_chicken wrote: post #405

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> People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content. Once they know it's possible, people want a one click solution for anything. The subject being taboo has nothing to do with it. This is one reason why Youtube, Spotify, Steam and Netflix did such a good job combatting piracy for music, video games, and movies, while ROM sites are still a ubiquitous problem for 2…

Why is piracy of games for a 20-year-old console a problem? Is anyone still selling new games for those consoles?

Yes actually. You can still buy brand new copies of titles like Kingdom Hearts, FFXII and others for PS2 directly from Amazon.com and not a third party seller. For a while Square Enix was selling PS1 versions of FF games too although they have seemed to have stopped in the last few years.

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Post by throwawaylolx »

f6v wrote: post #764
throwawaylolx wrote: post #721

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So now they'll come back because OF still has the larger community.

Every OF model has her own link in social media profile. They do marking via Instagram, Twitter, Reddit etc. It seems like the OF “community” doesn’t matter.

It matters because that's where their customers have accounts and presumably they don't wish to make a new account for each new person they want to follow.

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Post by dcolkitt »

asdff wrote: post #723
TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #647

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> approaching you with your three cans of paint and asking you for work in the home depot parking lot. Maybe that's just what happens though Where in live in the US, the housing market is exploding. It is impossible to find these workers, licensed or not.

I live where the median home is 900k and there is still no shortage of handymen and general contractor labor here if you are willing to pay for work under the table. It's an interesting dynamic.

It’s not an issue of how expensive houses is, it’s an issue of how many houses are being built. California has the slowest housing starts of any major state in the country. That same carpenter would have his pick of job sites in Florida.

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Post by tacLog »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #734
tacLog wrote: post #674

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I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions. EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time. From…

Yeah but if most people have services - I have three - then the most popular movies for that year will be on all the services almost. Endgame has been on all my services at some point over the last couple years. I've seen it probably 20+ times. Probably also the people who are most likely to want to watch Endgame have services.

By services you mean, Netflix, Hulu and similar right? Not plex, or the various illegal streaming sites?

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Post by tacLog »

Freak_NL wrote: post #740
tacLog wrote: post #674

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I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions. EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time. From…

A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker. So yeah, not 2,890. Think millions.

> A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker.

This makes far more sense, I wonder why their numbers are so bad.

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Post by Goronmon »

gambiting wrote: post #690
quantumBerry wrote: post #388

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Sex crimes are often strict liability. You violate the law whether you know or even meant to perform the act or not. For instance, Cody Wilson was sentenced for statutory rape after a sexual encounter with an individual who had a fake ID that stated they were 18, looked 18, and stated they were 18.

That sounds insane and like a failing of a justice system.

I assume it's because no one wants to be figuring out where the line is for whether a person was "tricked enough" for sex with a minor to be allowed.

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Post by sokoloff »

anigbrowl wrote: post #769
sokoloff wrote: post #664

Genius two-step marketing. People who knew nothing about OnlyFans: “Hmm, this company I’ve never heard of is making the news for banning explicit sexual content.” A few days later, on several mainstream reporting channels, “Just kidding, OnlyFans will continue to have steamy hot explicit sexual content available for a low, low monthly price.”

Is there any evidence that this was the plan, or are you just trying to show solidarity for other business people?

I’m hypothesizing a tactic that would turn out to be brilliant (and funny as hell). I doubt it was the actual plan.
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