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Three models, non-nude, the word "PORN" in big green letters

 

The Online Porn Business runs on free samples and trailers.  Just like the movie studios that will “give away” a few minutes of the feature film to bring in the paying moviegoer, Porn produces hundreds of thousands of minutes of video and millions of still pictures every year – most of that is dumped for “free”, sooner or later into the churning surf.  If you’ve had any experience with online porn yourself (LOL, as if ), you know that there’s a lot of stuff out there you can see without paying for it.

If I wanted to spare ya the full Porn Industry history lesson, all I'd have to say is the porn guys fucked up – BIGTIME.  A mistake that was made about 5 years ago, fucked things up, and there’s no going back.  In a nutshell, as soon as streaming video technology and broadband availability crossed paths, a number of big players in porn panicked. If you were big in porn 5 years ago, you understood the “free sample” model very well.  

Before online video porn, it was all still pictures.  And the way the free sample hook worked was they gave away the soft-core pix, and used them to make you buy the hard-core stuff.  It worked great.  The money rolled in so well and so fast, it turned a whole generation of computer nerds into Tony Montana’s overnight. You can understand the magnitude of anxiety, if anything should jeopardize that. 

Here’s the big mistake – and it's one of the most costly, I would wager, in all the history of business...

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