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Given how much of the “free porn” that’s available is actually distributed by the sponsor sites themselves, and that the main traffic resources crafted and used to drive surfers to the paysite doorway are some sort of “free site”, I found the following article about how the Adult Film Industry is feeling challenged (translation: threatened) by all the sites offering free porn of extreme interest.

On one hand, we, as adult webmasters, use the free porn to create the desire for more pics and videos which hopefully translates into making a sale, but have we reached a point where there’s so much free porn out there that it’s making it harder and harder to find the surfer who’s willing to pull out the wallet to entertain his cock??

And then there are the surfers that feel its OK to download the contents of a paysite and then freely distribute it on torrent like sites, how does the Industry as a whole fight that drain to the pocket book? Most surfers don’t realize that it can (and does) cost thousands of dollars to produce one porn movie.  I could go on and on here, but I’ll stop for now and let you read what others have to say on the matter.

By Reuters
Fri Jan 11 13:24:19 PST 2008

After years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs, and the Internet, the adult film industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing Web sites offering explicit content for free.

“We’re dealing with rampant piracy, tons of free content,” said Steven Hirsch, co-founder of privately held Vivid, among the best-known studios making sex films.

Vivid once earned 80 percent of its roughly $100 million a year from DVD sales, but last year that fell to 30 percent, Hirsch said in an interview.

The Internet challenge, a topic of discussion at the biggest adult film expo of the year in Las Vegas this week, has already presented itself to the music industry and other mainstream entertainment.

Much of the Internet competition for the U.S. porn world, largely based in Southern California, comes from Web sites like Toronto-based XTube.com, whose format is modeled after Google’s YouTube.

Some of the videos on the XTube site come from commercial studios while others are posted by amateurs.

“We’re not pirates. We are providing a service that people think they can use to pirate,” said Lance Cassidy, one of XTube’s founders.

The XTube model
The Web site has 200,000 free videos, typically 30 seconds to two minutes long, and about 1 percent of visitors buy DVDs or video streams, resulting in millions of dollars of annual revenue, sales director Curtis Potec said. About two thirds of XTube’s viewers are gay, Potec said.

“We’ve had tons and tons of people tell us this is the future of the adult industry,” Potec said. “Most of the money is ads, on any site, mainstream or adult.”

Scott Coffman, president of Adult Entertainment Broadcast Network (AEBN) in North Carolina, says his company started a YouTube-type site a year-and-a-half ago to generate revenue through advertising and drive traffic to pay-per-minute sites.

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