Posted on 06/02/2007 9:35:22 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
June 2, 2007
For Pornographers, Internet’s Virtues Turn to Vices
By MATT RICHTEL
The Internet was supposed to be a tremendous boon for the pornography industry, creating a global market of images and videos accessible from the privacy of a home computer. For a time it worked, with wider distribution and social acceptance driving a steady increase in sales.
But now the established pornography business is in decline — and the Internet is being held responsible.
The online availability of free or low-cost photos and videos has begun to take a fierce toll on sales of X-rated DVDs. Inexpensive digital technology has paved the way for aspiring amateur pornographers, who are flooding the market, while everyone in the industry is giving away more material to lure paying customers.
And unlike consumers looking for music and other media, viewers of pornography do not seem to mind giving up brand-name producers and performers for anonymous ones, or a well-lighted movie set for a ratty couch at an amateur videographer’s house.
After years of essentially steady increases, sales and rentals of pornographic videos were $3.62 billion in 2006, down from $4.28 billion in 2005, according to estimates by AVN, an industry trade publication. If the situation does not change, the overall $13 billion sex-related entertainment market may shrink this year, said Paul Fishbein, president of AVN Media Network, the magazine’s publisher. The industry’s online revenue is substantial but is not growing quickly enough to make up for the drop in video income.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
In this case, it could be an indication that a part of financial base for their political machine is crumbling.
Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Well, erotica is always much more interesting when there is no sound and everything is stripped to the bare basics. Less bang for the buck is the byword here. I can’t watch the stuff because of its high production values. I am becoming virtuous if only because there is no where else to turn.
pornographic videos were $3.62 billion in 2006...Clearly the average person blows the nose or wipes the posterior more than watches porn: according to Kimberly-Clark, the U.S bathroom tissue market is $4.2 billion.
And my guess is that workers in the Kleenex industry have longer careers, fewer diseases, and overall more happiness than in that other...
Yes, exactly. But apparently, thanks to the internet, it also promotes reproduction of porn (by ever-smaller organizations, and even by amateurs,) and reproduction of the business model of the porn producers (at ever smaller scales, and by ever more players.) Get it?
The filesharing networks are killing them.
Is this sort of stuff documented?
Considering that one of the earliest forms of human art is a statue of an obese naked woman, I’d say that the human desire to produce amateur porn is probably part of what makes us who we are. The laugh line here for me is the concept that viewers of porn are interested in quality. I’d ask for a show of hands here to indicate how many really care about quality, but those hands are probably busy. LOL
Years of social degradation have made the porn industry "obsolete".
Basically, this generation has had this stuff foisted upon them since they were children. They watched, they listened and they learned. It became part of their culture.
So who wants to pay for something they live through every single day? Why by a porn DVD when you either reenact on your own or even produce your own porn video?
It's not that sex is any less popular, it's that the porn industry can only compete so much with a flooded market. Sure, it's a popular item, but it's nothing new, and there's free and cheaper available. Everybody can be a porn star...
Unintended consequences...
HA HA.
Much like the music industry, promoting rebellion and disrespect of authority, then they have the nerve to get upset when kids steal their intellectual property!
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I hadn’t heard of these amateur sites. Other than Google, how are you supposed to find out about these? :)
How will all this affect the Hedgehog’s lifestyle?
Maybe later pingout.
Your post #9...BTTT
Exactamundo. Someone is making money, but more of it is being made at the expense of the established porn industry. The so-called “amateurs” are apparently making inroads into the industry but I guess their profits are not tracked. I suppose the next move by the “legitimate” porn industry will be to sue the amateurs or claim some sort of infringement, like what happened in the music industry. Bill Clinton is a lawyer who likes sex, he would be the perfect spokesman for the porn industry (oh I forgot, his license to practice law was suspended). I wonder whose side the ACLU will be on, could be interesting.
p2p networks kill them. There is so much free “good quality” porn out there, why spend money on it?
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