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...DVD sales are in free fall. Audiences are flocking to pornographic knockoffs of YouTube, especially a secretive site called YouPorn. And the amateurs are taking over. What’s happening to the adult-entertainment industry is exactly what’s happening to its Hollywood counterpart—only worse.

…Three years ago, 80 percent of Vivid’s income came from DVD sales. Today, Hirsch puts that number at about 30 percent, with the rest coming from a fragmented range of sources: subscriptions to Vivid.com, pay-per-view TV, internet video-on-demand, merchandising, and mobile-phone deals. Domestic DVD sales are down 35 percent this year alone. His revenue is flat, he says, but that’s mainly because he’s been cutting costs. Within five years, he claims, DVD sales will be close to zero.



I've been saying this shit for years but nobody listens ever. This YouPorn & SexTV1 thing is the end of monetized pornography. Hollywood is in no way having as big a problem with piracy as porno is because they are willing to employ thousands of people to scour the web and get pirated product promptly removed. I see so much stolen XXX crap on these free sites that its sick, yet I've never even heard of one lawsuit to shut down one of these shady websites.

If the industry is really serious about making money then the first thing they will take a four step program:

1) Fire AEBN, Gamelink, or any other VOD provider they signed up for. Do you idiots realize they can cut up your product for promotional purposes and distribute it for free any way they see fit to get people to their websites to 'buy'?? These guys don't give a fuck, they're just surviving on volume.

2) Cut off the affiliate programs, stop producing cuts and photo galleries for 'webmasters' who take the shit and dump it on the web for free.

3) Then they'll stop allowing the downloading of full scenes from corporate websties to stop the bleeding.

4) They'll turn their websites into true marketing websites to sell DVDs (or whatever pops up next) either direct to consumer or via retailers.

Unfortunately none of this will ever occur because most of the idiots running porn studios aren't rocket scientists. Besides, we're in an age where the fuckin' butt ugly performing skank makes all the money - and for the most part these below-par chicks in porn are the type you wouldn't pick up while drunk.