‘One Last Breath’ – Anonymous Guest Blogger
Used with permission, from http://jaydenjaymesxxx.com/blog/?p=305
I received the following via one of my social networking site from someone who claims to be an attorney in NYC… A big fan of mine… But had a few things to say about the industry as a whole. I don’t have a whole hell of a lot to comment on because I think that he has done a great job. But feel free to comment and let me know what you think…
“I’m writing this to describe what it must feel like to take one last breath of air before you finally drown. I’m not being literal. I’m describing the attempts that all of the greedy DVD companies are scavenging to any desperate measure to get every little drop of what’s left in the Internet world because they were too lazy to put money into research and hiring the right people, and they had felt that they would rather spend their money showing off to one another with the game ‘Whose AVN booth is better?’ That’s a fun game, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a small piece of advertising space year after year just to show the adult world who has the best placement and who gets their back padded the most. Well, I guess they all finally realized that the party is over, huh?
So you have companies with massive libraries that mostly have shit quality, 640×480, they figured back when HD was first available, ‘Who is ever going to use resolution in HD. It’s too big?’ So they shoot in the lower quality format. And then you have these massive budgets that companies feel the need to spend for these ‘big productions’ which are just wet dreams from wanna be directors that didn’t make it to Hollywood, and so they must make replica’s or parodies of the real thing. I hate to break it to them, but it’s much harder to create than replicate. That’s why you have these parody guys who think they’re hot shit by doing a million of some shitty parodies that nobody is going to watch, and they’re the cool ones that have to wear sunglasses at night at all of the porn events, of course winning awards because the parent company spends the money on advertising. A parody category? Are you effin kidding me?
The funny thing that came to my attention is this other attempt at trying to squeeze a buck out of the internet. Its this thing called ‘mobile’ and you see third party companies that are trying to put together All in One systems, basing their commission off of something like a 50% revshare commission. The funny thing is that you see some really big names on board doing this, basically giving a company who just setup a merchant account and HTML5 formatted templates to sell your product on an outdated ‘.mobi’ site. Can you say ‘Bamboozled?’ The Internet companies are probably pissing in their pants right now laughing because these DVD companies have no idea what the hell they are doing. And you have to feel bad for them, right? Oh wait, these are the same guys that spent millions on showing off. It’s like they were the jocks in high school picking on the geeks, until ten years down the road those same ‘cool guys’ really didn’t have a clue and were stuck in the past, getting fat, and hanging around the old town going to high school football games to hit on ladies to see if they ‘still have it.’ LoL.
You can’t blame anybody for the direction porn is going. Blame yourselves and salute the Internet companies that were smart enough to get somewhere first. You know damn well if Hirsch decided to develop a Tube site, he wouldn’t be wining about anything. He’s just mad he didn’t think of it first and instead he thought DRM and Burn to DVD was the future. Oh, and hoaxing sex tapes with TMZ.
The only way you will survive is to scrap everything and recreate. Most people can’t do that and need that past. And as everyone knows, little by little, each one is falling off, one by one. Don’t trust third party companies to handle your business. Are you kidding me? 50% revshare after you’ve spent all of your time and money into building up a brand along with production costs? Traffic is no doubt king in this world, but there is also a lot of shit out there not worth viewing. So quality surpasses quantity now a days. I bet a lot of companies are also shooting themselves in the foot because they decided to cut back on costs for good photography for each scene. ‘Oh hell, we’ll just do some screen grabs.’ Yeah, good choice there, Bucko.
The tide is coming in strong in 2010 and you’re going to see a lot more companies drowning. Contract girls will fade because nobody cares anymore because there are 4 more girls that look just like them all over the tube sites. Budgets will drop dramatically.
Of course agencies will ride the baloney pony and get greedy to do everything they can to milk girls for what they’re worth, encouraging beginners to do anal and dp’s because they need to cash in while it’s hot. They’ll also try their own attempts of buying the girls’ domain names and making their own websites. Why? Because they’re desperate. This industry is in a downward spiral and only a select few will overcome… Internet companies, Pornstars who are already established on the web as ‘gonzo girls’, and of course lawyers. Everyone else can just bend down between their legs and kiss their asses goodbye. Take a breath now.”
Thank you for your thoughts, Mr. Anonymous Attorney from NYC.