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If the porn industry wants out of its doldrums, it needs to try to duplicate iTunes: have one trusted brand name store, where all porn is available for purchase (not streaming or rental) in a universal, non-DRM format -- H.264 would be ideal, and prices will be reasonable $1.99 and certainly no higher than $4.99. Do that, and watch sales sky rocket. Who would want to bother with the terrible quality of the flash video on "Tube" whatever, or the endless time waste of P2P when one can get cheap, high quality, guarantied to play porn in one central, trusted repository.



I agree, but here's the problem... let's assume you go $4.99 a flick to keep it reasonable - by flick I mean an entire DVD. When you customer pays with a credit card, you get screwed by the bank.$0.30 + 3-4%. Then you got bandwidth and storage. Let's say for arguments sake that the all distribution expenses run you the $0.99 making the sale $4.00. Even if you're doing an astounding 50/50 split of the net, the studio gets only $2.

Let's pretend that the DVD contains 4 scenes and it cost the studio $2000 a scene + another $2000 to edit, they're looking at $10g's and have to sell 500 copies before they break even. Then think about the digital distribution companies. Those douchbags gotta keep the hookers and blow flowing, then they have to lease expensive offices and $100K cars to feel good abouth themselves. They'd never do it for $2 a unit either.

Honestly, most DVDs are so poorly produced, they'll never sell that many. So you'd have to limit the service to proven adult companies, so you can jack the price up to $8-9 per unit to make any money.