[Lorianne]

Synopsis via Slate: An article in the November issue of Portfolio reveals the undoing of the pornography industry, primarily at the hands of a free-porn site called YouPorn. The decline of DVD sales makes the porn world's struggle "directly analogous to what's happening to the music industry, but worse."—D.S.

[Jigajog]

There is a free YouPorn site available? Now we all can enjoy universal porn. Wonder what this will do for Dem campaign fund raising?

[KarlInOhio]

He shared his vision of turning YouPorn into a “very cool brand, perhaps the Virgin of adult entertainment.”

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

I'm surprised that there isn't a porn NetFlix out there. You order the DVD, it arrives in the mail, you watch it and send it back. PornNetFlix then disinfects the DVD and sends it to the next person asking for it.

[Paradox]

So in essence, its a spin off on the old saying “Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?”

[Billthedrill]

Only 12 percent of the site’s traffic comes from the U.S., he said.

Sad to see that we're outsourcing pr0n but they're only, ah, doing the...er, stuff...that Americans won't...oh, never mind.

[CharlesWayneCT]

It’s not really like the music industry problem. There aren’t a plethora of “amateur bands” out making music and posting it, and consumers aren’t flocking to crappy amateur music instead of well-produced professional albums.

The music industy’s problem is that people are stealing their intellectual property and setting up sites to give it away.

The PORN industry’s problem is that porn doesn’t have to be professional, and in fact many people seem to enjoy it more when it seems real, rather than faked. Once the porn industry saw how much money they could make selling DVDs of amateurs having sex, they should have realised they were “screwed”.

After all, at that point they were simply distributers of a product that can easily be distributed directly through the web at virtually no cost.

So if people are willing to not get paid, they can produce and distribute porn for free, at no cost to themselves.

The Porn industry’s only hope seems to be to pass laws severely restricting easy access to on-line porn. They need laws that heavily regulate who can appear in a video, like proof of age, proof of protection, regular medical exams. They need a minimum wage law for appearing in movies, they need web sites to be forced to restrict access to people who prove they are 18, and to restrict videos to those who have spent big bucks to prove the actors are all legal and willing.

In other words, all the stuff the Porn industry has been fighting for years, was the only thing that would save them.

[Schnucki]

We learn so much useful stuff on FR. :)

[pianomikey]

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Serves the Flynt wanna-bes right, but it’s just making porn that much more easy, free and enormously widely distributed... and easier to access for children.

[Clemenza]

Look for many bankruptcies of production companies headquartered in Chatsworth and Canoga Park.

Besides, we now have Brazilian and Ukranian starlets blanking-the-rooster that American porn stars refuse to do...

[OBone]

Sort of reminds me of a story I heard about Cape Canaveral, FL in the 60s when the Cape was just getting underway. Several times houses of ill repute had tried to open and make a go of it and failed miserable. Too much free stuff running around.

OB

[windcliff]

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