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I can't believe I am reading this in 2021, seriously.

What year could you believe reading this in?

by the tone ("It enslaves a person to his passions. It feeds his lusts and deranges his desires.") I'd say 17th century puritans. The author is missing the word "sin", but it's sort of implied.

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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.

Additionally, I guess there are also many people, myself included, who download stuff again, but I don't use torrents, as I have indeed been burned in the past by that. I now use forums that link to encrypted Mega accounts or similar.

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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…

And also why piracy is increasing again as the movie/TV series space is becoming so fragmented.

It strikes me the best cure is to restrict copyright to force federation - if you sell to one company who retails to consumers in a geo locality then you're required to make available to any company at that price.

Streaming services would be forced to compete in everything except content. Creators would still be paid.

Copyright isn't a natural right, it should be continually adapted to serve the public.

What are the problems with this?

My personal views, of course.

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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.”

I mean, yes, public relations as a whole is getting better and better.

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People predicted this very transparent publicity ploy when the news first broke. There are no surprises here, other than perhaps how quickly they played their hand.

People predict every outcome. Then the ones that got it correct can boast that they knew all along. Basically the survivorship bias.

Nobody knows shit in advance, even if it seems repeatable.

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No it really does happen its just not so common among older people, I know people who got in trouble with their gf because they were caught subscribing to the OF of some other girl they both knew. Only half the appeal is random people selling nudes, the other half is the hot chick from your high school class selling them.

I'm not debating that it happens. But who's paying to have these articles published and promoted? PR dept of OnlyFans is your only answer.

I'm sure OF would be willing to pay for the right kind of coverage, but this sounds a bit nothingeverhappens. If something is interesting/amusing enough then it will get articles about it organically.

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post #927

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Is British board of film censors considered a government entity? Is so, then aren't those considered part of free expression?

And? The US constitution doesn't apply in Britain for obvious reasons.

I never talked about the US constitution.

> Under Article 10 of the Human Rights Act 1998, “everyone has the right to freedom of expression” in the UK. But the law states that this freedom “may be subject to formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society”.

My question is why this doesn't apply to those 2 sexual acts?

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> ~$180 average monthly earnings … compare to traditional porn sites, where some workers earn that money in a day. That is not a valid comparison. Some OF publishers probably make that much in a day. Comparing the average on one venue to the outliers of another doesn't really tell you anything useful. Furthermore, I suspect most traditional porn work is paid per shoot with nothing per view or per repeat, and there ar…

No need for "probably". The top creators on OnlyFans make several hundreds of thousands dollars a day.

I went with "probably" or if laziness - a more definite statement would have required a bit if fact checking research as I don't want to be one of those people!
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