Will porn no longer be profitable in the future

[brawnypandora0]

Since almost anything can be found online and downloaded for free, do you think the porn industry will shrink greatly? I think in ten years time, most porn will be made by amateurs who don't do it for reasons of money.

[gape]

No..... Today porn is still bought and I think it will be tomorrow In fact at the moment I think it still seems to be growing. Some of the larger houses revenue might fall to others - Providing content is competative. Yes there has and will be sharing. Also free streaming has started many sites are providing updates every other day. Providing they carry on doing that at the right price people will still buy if it's there niche!

If porn stops making a profit the. There will be non, it's simple demand and supply.

[AgentArgo]

Actually, the real damage to the industry is not so much from sharing on torrents sites or through rapid share, it's actually from all of the tube sites. Many porn purchases are made out of instant gratification- the consumer wants it NOW. BT does not really provide this, and also requires the users to have certain technical skills to be able to us BT correctly. However, tube sites DO provide instant gratification because you can view clips immediately. Since tubes sites obviously are not going away because A) there are many and B) they are often hosted in areas outside of copyright concerns there is really only one choice, and that is to embrace them. You can see it on some sites already, content providers have struck deals with the tube sites, they show short clips with links to their sign up page. It's not the best but it's something.

But anyway, the point remains there is a huge consumer base for porn all over the world. Much of these consumers do not have the skill, patience or care to get exactly what they want for free so they will continue to pay for it. The industry might fluctuate and trend downward, but it will never die and will simply adjust to meet to the new market.

[oA_Ao]

I hope in the future there will be websites, where porn-fans can spent money, so a girl can be paid for a number of new scene for a fixed-price offer. That means, that a website will present some really hot girls and if enough money was spent the website will produce the number of new scenes. That's a win/win situation for customers and producers!

The consumers will get a number of new scenes with a girl they want.
The producer gets money.

The benefit of donors in comparison to pirates could be, that donors have influence on the girls clothes and sex-positions ...and they get new scenes with a girl they want.

if not enough money was spent after a period of time, the money will be released back to the investor/customer. So, there is no risk that money is paid for nothing.

Example:
I would love to spent 40$ for 3 new scenes with Evdokia (viewtopic.php?f=19&t=13907) or other hot girls.

[tiago]

I think the porn industry will find a way to remain profitable,
it always has been the first to adopt new technologies.

The model of making dvd's or selling online is dead, because of torrents and the "tube" sites.
No money to be made there. (basically, i can already download everything that I know exists).

I see a huge future in the webcam area. I see already pornstars switching to webcam sites,
because they don't make enough acting in video's. (just check how succesfull myfreecams is now).
The income of these girls from webcam sites can be huge, they become webcamstars , with their own website and all.
(sort of like the reality shows, only for porn)

Also, just wait until the technology is ready to do live streaming to iPhone/Blackberry type of phones.
If live porn can be brought streaming to PDA's, that will open up a completely new market for porn.

[robot]

I think the porn industry will find a way to remain profitable,
it always has been the first to adopt new technologies.

...snip snip blabla...

new technologies ... like sineplex's and sinevolutionevilodudplex?

[pinkincide]

Just think if the tech from Avatar was used for porn. We'll all be jerking off to polygons soon.
But I'll be too busy watching Jessica Alba ass fisting Keira Knightley to care.

[sinspector]

don't get me wrong, but i think a great deal of the european porn industry died already.. sure, i'm maybe too narrow in my focus, but look, i see it that way 'round:

- raul cristian stopped updating his perfect-gonzo sites long ago. he now works in the united states and is doing some - that's my opinion - boring and very silly movies there, which he sells trough the cruel media sites and trough the stagliano-network, which runs that senseless no-creampie-policy. there ain't no unknown euro-girls in his productions anymore, which adress mainly an american audience.

- ddf had seemingly a crisis in the last months and recycled old scenes on some of their sites. luckily they publish some new hardcore stuff again. but how long nobody knows, since one can get all the ddf-sites by joining one. not the best sign maybe.

- sineplex.. not to mention, a total disaster.

- other sites like redlinestar or asshole-fetish update their sites once in a month - not an attractive deal for fresh members, which could mean an insecure future for the company running the sites.

- finally there are new companies emerging, that produce tailored porn on demand. that might be a nice niche, but it's probably not gonna pay on the long run. (maybe i'm just jealous of those who afford that stuff..)

i don't know the industry and i don't know what they might come up with in the next months, but i'm rather pessimistic not to say pissed off. at least i don't trust those companies who are announcing new stuff or new sites - coming soon. it takes normally a year until the promises come true, if at all, and that's not soon to me.

sinspector.

ps: only exception to the stuff said is 21sextury..

[dap-addict]

- raul cristian stopped updating his perfect-gonzo sites long ago. he now works in the united states and is doing some - that's my opinion - boring and very silly movies there, which he sells trough the cruel media sites and trough the stagliano-network, which runs that senseless no-creampie-policy.

You name it, bingo!
Totally senseless!
But doenst Cruel Media still feature creampies?

Anyway, was put of topic maybe too much.
I wouldnt call it an end too soon, some websites went, some others came for ages already. Times are bad, sure, but the ecconomic crisis will once be over and entertainment industry is still hurt less than others. I think its a qustion of cutting costs a bit for may still.

[General Bear]

Of course the major part of porn in the future will be on the net. But not all. There will always be a large part of the market that does not want to consume porn at home, for obvious reasons. So there will always be room for porn shops. It´s hard to say exactly what the porn consumption in porn shops will look like. Maybe more internet cabins or DVD:s will survive there. It is a too big part of the market to be just left out. If you add people that for various reasons don´t trust porn companies and don´t want to give them addresses or credit card numbers and those that still are unfamiliar with the internet world this part of the market becomes even bigger.

Another development that I am surprised hasn´t happened yet is a "marriage" between porn and prostitution. The porn films would be advertisement for the prostitution. The girl makes a porn film and in the end you get information of where and when she is available. In some countries, Germany and others, this would be possible. I know that there are a few companies that have come close to this, but it has never been tried on a bigger scale.

[laura]

I personally think that tube sites may actually have a positive effect on the porn industry in so much as that they offer a little taste to broad-minded adults
to what good porn is all about. This will hopefully result in more people getting into porn with many of these progressing to joining sites and/or buying
dvd's. Without such large 'free' exposure to porn in all it is unlikely that the casual passerby would dabble and then hopefully go onto become a true porn fan
who demand better quality formatted pron i.e dvd's, high quality downloads etc. xx

[claudia_rossi_fan_1]

I think you are all delusional.

The Porn Industry is dying. Just look at the threads at ADT that deals with the situation, it is ugly, porntubes will be the last nail in the coffin after DVD roms, E Mule & Torrents.

For 10 years, the music industry has been trying to fight the web and failed miserably.

Nothing worked, repression or incentives and I Tunes is a giant scam run by an evil man.

The music industry is dying and nobody gives a flying fuck about it.

It s already happening with DVD market, books, comics.

Bottom Line :

How do you compete with free ?

You don't. You simply try your best to survive and prey you can pay your bills a the end of the month.

All the brightest minds in the world didn't come up with a viable solution for more than ten years now.

The latest Sineplex disaster was a trainwreck in the making.

Go ask a 15 year old kid if he has spent any money on porn, music, movies, tv shows and then go into his bed room and look out how many TB he has in store.

People are just in denial, but it s ok, as time passes by, you learn to live with it.

[tcb121]

I see a big drop off over the past year or so. Back in the late 90's through 2007 or so, the porn industry was pumping out movies at a crazy pace. The internet became flooded with all the free porn you could ever want. Internet speeds increased which made surfing for porn faster and easier then before. I recall surfing for porn back in the 28.8k, 33.6k and 56k modem days. Just getting a decent jpg image was sometimes 10 minutes of waiting. I was much more willing then to go out and purchase porn on VHS then I was to spend all weekend trying to surf for a few jpg's and a crappy low res mpg. Fast forward to today. Look at all the tools you have access to. Bit Torrent, Newsgroups, tube sites, free sites, fan sites, performer sites, blogs, forums, facebook, studio sites, fetish sites, etc... The list goes forever. Why pay when I can find almost any performer I want for the price of my broadband.

I will say the quality of porn has certainly gone way up. The quality of the girls in porn today is much nicer then the crop a decade ago, but I think we have reached a pinnacle in some respects. Almost all the girls jump right into anal and dp scenes and their careers seem to be so much shorter. They get in, do their 10 - 15 scenes and that's it. Used to be a new girl would do a few straight scenes until she felt comfortable and it was a big deal to jump into the anal / dp side. That is actually expected these days, and I'm happy for it, but it seems to shorten the careers of the girls.

Porn still has some social obstacles to overcome, but it is more accepted in today's world then it was even 10 years ago. That has to tie into profits at some point. I'm just not sure how this business model all ends. Depends on what people use porn for. If you just use porn casually, the quality and selection of the free stuff on the internet will probably do you just fine. I would say the porn industry will not make many profits off casual porn fans. If the free stuff becomes the gateway drug to get you into porn they have a better chance. Its still a risky bet. I find I purchase less and rent less then I used to over the past few years. Used to be I would stop at the video rental store on the way home and rent two or three videos once or twice a week. Now I haven't been to the rental store in 9 months. I do maintain a TeenCoreClub membership, because I think they offer the best looking new talent on the web. I'm usually a glass half full guy, so I'm hoping the industry bounces back strong.

[bakerboy]

The basic question is wrong a.k.a. Are the great vine houses going to go broke because people a drinking plonk? OR Is Gucci ( Vouiton,Dior etc.) going broke because people can buy clothes/shoes in Walmat ? Of course not: The shit happy go lucky porn ought to be free and its purveyours ought to go broke. Its the Walmart people wwho consume that stuff... The good quality erotica will remain. No different then the houses of Gucci or Multipulciano

[alpha68]

Maybe the fat years are over, maybe euro porn becomes bad as US porn, I don't hope or think so but we still can dig for old stuff, taste and fetish enhance/change with time more or less, maybe there is already more porn and naked babes then the world needs. If all fails we can still find another hobby (or addiction?) so I'm easy as usual.