just_me wrote:All this doom & gloom around here - I tried my best to get away from this forum last month, but it didn't take
Ten years ago, twenty years ago, you had good demand and low supply. With the explosion of the internet, free market capitalism kicked in and the past decade you had high demand and extremely high supply. Now today you have lower demand and still extremely high supply. A few companies will have to go under as the market readjusts, that's just reality, and has nothing to do with filesharing. And when supply begins to drop, then the profits for the surviving will rise again.
DVD sales are dropping because they just are not economical anymore. Why should I take a chance on paying $50 for a dvd with 4 scenes when for $35 at 1by-day I get access to hundreds of scenes including ~30 brand new scenes that month?
VirtuaGirl promotes on their site that they currently have 5 million subscribing users - at $13/month even subtracting various fees they're bringing in $30-40 million per month. Estimates I've seen from traffic analysis sites, along with a few other bits of info, suggests DDF is pulling in $5+ million after fees each month amongst their sites, or about $50-60k per scene. That's good money.
Teendreams provides the info on the number of currently logged in subscribers and it's usually around 5,000 at any given time. I think it's a safe assumption to say this site has over 100k subscribing users per month, or over $1 million in revenues for a site that is comprised mainly of non-exclusive licensed photosets. And in addition, it's not exactly secret knowledge that Teendreams' zip sets are stored on an unsecured server, anyone who wants can grab any photoset directly from their servers. So exactly how do they continue pulling in that much $$ if filesharing is killing the industry? That argument makes little sense.
The problem with the discussion here is you guys are focusing on one small portion of the industry while not looking at everything else that is out there. What exactly has Woodman done to sell his product across the internet? If he can't make a profit, then that's his own damn fault. It's not sufficient anymore to slap your name on the cover, do little if any promotion, and expect it to be a hit.Then I truly believe the other half of the porn situation is the emerging softcore industry especially in Czech & Hungary, so many girls able to make it for years without having to do any b/g scenes
If Woodman had access to shoot his style with girls of the quality of Sandy, Sophie Moone, Eufrat, Ariel, Eve Angel, Peaches, Bambi, then sure the scenes would be better quality and the dvds sell more - but these girls have all found a decent money stream elsewhere, the girls do not need the big names of hardcore of the past.
Porn is changing, and if the names of the past are unwilling to keep up with these changes, then there is nothing left to say except "Cya". There is far too much competition today willing to give me exactly what I want, for me to ever care to wait on a dinosaur with an overinflated ego. The dvd producers of yesteryear give us by far the worst internet experience. When they come complaining they can't make a buck off the net, it's their own fault.
I'm a nobody from nowhere, but this all is just simple common sense.
Amen brother.
