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 ...
Am I supposed to feel sorry for the porn industry or should I be happy? I don’t think this is a winner any way you look at it.
Real actual sex is a threat to their business.
They wanted to “change the culture” — but only so much.
To become a trend-setter and make tons of money. They set the trend alright, but now they could no longer make enough money.:-) Too bad, beaten in their own game. Has to happen eventually.
Porn encourages reproductive behavior? Who would have thought? ;-)
So they do as music traders do, they bootleg. They sell for money the “independent producers” work (self porn, stolen tapes, etc).
They know that few victims of the theft want to show their faces in court and go on record about it.
We ought to let the muslies at these people. then they could kill each other and we’d all be happy.
The money isn’t leaving the industry, it is hitting the channels that are outside of the establishment’s tracking.
Just like “album sales” are down even though much music is still being bought.
One has to say to the NYT and Author, “How do you know?”; What triggered the inquiry, or ...
One political benefit to this: the pornography industry won’t be able to contribute as much to Hillary anymore.
Gee, I thought it was a substitute for reproductive behavior.
14 posts and no pictures.
The amateur stuff is better anyway.
Or so I’ve heard.
Shrinking is not good for the porn industry.
I’ve heard that too...... ;)
Only the NY Times would cry about something like this.
Geez..How many people actually know by name the producers of this crap?! It's over for the porno pros. On the Internet, porn is now basically free. What a shame. The San Fernando porn industry is dying.
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