Oh man. I'm so glad I am still up and drunk posting on HN at midnight. Hold on!
So... the (sexy) lead-in is that some performer thought her "career" in the porn industry would last forever. Ha. Enough said about that. Sad but not really interesting.
The meat of the article (lol) is that these free sites all make their money by licensing cheap content (which there is a LOT of) and redirecting traffic to pay sites which pay referral fees (PPA), but the resulting (PPV) revenue is down %50 which has the effect of sucking up (lol) half the money in the pipeline. There are middlemen upon middlemen (hot!) in the porn industry. That kind of drop has shockwave effects through the rest of the industry. Biz 101.
So I guess we're facing a "peak porn" scenario. Future economist PHD's, there's a hot topic for ya.
The existing resources can probably be strip mined for a while. Perhaps the era of get rich quick internet porn sites is over? Dang, I was just about to start one, because I totally read this wired article from 1998 about how that was a guaranteed way to make money on the interwebz. (lol).
Also, any tech geeks out there who can't get laid should remember this: if you hire a girl to have sex with you, that's illegal prostitution. If it's on camera and she signs some forms, it's legal porn! (don't forget your 2257 compliance)
So... the (sexy) lead-in is that some performer thought her "career" in the porn industry would last forever. Ha. Enough said about that. Sad but not really interesting.
The meat of the article (lol) is that these free sites all make their money by licensing cheap content (which there is a LOT of) and redirecting traffic to pay sites which pay referral fees (PPA), but the resulting (PPV) revenue is down %50 which has the effect of sucking up (lol) half the money in the pipeline. There are middlemen upon middlemen (hot!) in the porn industry. That kind of drop has shockwave effects through the rest of the industry. Biz 101.
So I guess we're facing a "peak porn" scenario. Future economist PHD's, there's a hot topic for ya.
The existing resources can probably be strip mined for a while. Perhaps the era of get rich quick internet porn sites is over? Dang, I was just about to start one, because I totally read this wired article from 1998 about how that was a guaranteed way to make money on the interwebz. (lol).
Also, any tech geeks out there who can't get laid should remember this: if you hire a girl to have sex with you, that's illegal prostitution. If it's on camera and she signs some forms, it's legal porn! (don't forget your 2257 compliance)