Free Porn Threatens Adult Film Industry

From ABCNews:

Although many of the big companies, such as Vivid Video and Wicked Pictures, offer free clips to entice viewers to buy the full movie online, Ford claims that only one in a thousand viewers actually whip out their wallets.

Ford thinks that some of the changes planned by the industry, such as video-on-demand, higher-quality design of the DVD boxes and mobile phone cybersex, will not make any difference to their sagging profits. "It doesn’t matter what the industry does — it’s screwed in terms of profitability," he say. "There is a ton of free stuff floating around and the amateur stuff — people filming themselves in their bedrooms and posting it online — is not going to go away. It will just keep growing."

10 thoughts on “Free Porn Threatens Adult Film Industry

  1. Its the fact that the industry has been so slow to embrace online distribution systems that has resulted in the “so called” drop in sales. If I have to go to the store, buy porn and then bring it home, there are 20 things that will stop me from making a porn purchase. I’ll take an inferior free product that is convieniently available on the internet instead. But if a superior product is available online on VOD, I will buy that over the free stuff.

  2. streetphotoman says:

    Seems to me a lot of people are doing the webcam whoring thing. Plenty of people doing it for free as well. Personally I find it hilarious and alienating. As access to porn has become evermore easy especially in a way that was never imagined before the internet (and I certainly remember that time) we have become ever more alienated from each other, full of suspicion of online to real life contact. Certainly I found it easier to meet women before the internet but for porn you had to go into a sex and that was a whole different experience from the internet.

  3. streetphotoman says:

    should read, “go into a sex shop”

  4. Larry Horse says:

    The one thing about porn on your PC, you try to jack off to it at your computer desk, the computer area isnt built for it. You want your comfy chair and the remote, DVD chaptering is a godsend, and a real remote control works for better than a mouse even a wireless mouse.

  5. joe truth says:

    The fact that there is a glut of product on the market is also why sales are at an all time low. The Isrealies like Cheim Cohen and his ilk really put it in the shitter with their bootlegging and cheap re-hashed comps. I saw it start when the three chip ccd camera became available. It made it so you had to have very little or no talent or any film making experience what so ever. Which is very evident in the product we see out there today. It is lame, with nothing original and poorly produced. Thats why these pathetic gonzo companies use foil,O-rings or what ever to enhance the packaging. Cause whats in the packaging is the same ole played out 5-6 scene crap that every other gonzo maker has done. You can polish a terd, but when its all said and done it’s still a terd. Hopefully this will cause some of these production companies to go out of business just as soon as they started. Like any other market there is more supply than demand. The internet is not the end all distribution mechanisiam. Pleanty of people still like the brick and morter aspect of purchasing. It is amusing to hear what people who have been in or around the industry for maybe a whole 2 years or less say, especially the talent. Which now days turns over fast. I call them the 5 min. experts. You know the type. They get into something and right away they know it all. Did I say amusing??

  6. I’d say ‘torrent’ would be nuff said.

  7. Chaim Amalek says:

    Simply put, open source pornography is just another form of socialism, ruining the lives of others.

  8. Whoever “joe truth” is, absolutely knows what he’s talking about! The brick and morter would be fine if everybody and their brother wasn’t releasing 4 to 8 titles a month. The fee shit on the net is only helping professionals sell their products because 90% of the shit on the web that’s free isn’t even really legible.

  9. Oh yeah…. I love the 5 minute expert thing…. Isn’t it the truth.

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