drevokocur66 wrote:As a product owner, it would not piss me off that someone is watching my work for free, because chances are that if they really like it, they may buy something in the future. What would piss me off more is that someone else is making money off my hard work.
Hmm, believe me, personally it would piss you off if you had one. Maybe that's why xxx is mad about it, but business wise you have to take it into account.
chances are that if they really like it, they may buy something in the future.From my experience I don't think it applies to porn so much. It certainly works to some degree in mainstream markets, but even there it can be a death trap, because you start building on the volume of the sales and you must go down with your margin to keep up with the competition, where there will always be somebody cheaper.
I believe specializing is the key to success (thus avoiding competition). Translated to porn, niches and added values are the key. You can even see how erotic fairs changed so much last years towards socializing, general entertainment, VOD, etc.
That's what made so LP successful (regardless of the real major source of revenue). They focused on simple no brainer heavy anal with teens, and lately daps. How simple.
drevokocur66 wrote:And you have people that appreciate your work and reward you by buying your product.
I don't believe in that, especially in porn once it went all digital readily available online, where most of people watch it just for their own very short-time pleasure. If they have the chance to get for free, they will. Once it's done, it's over, it's not worth for most of them to pay for it, it must take a real connasseur to regulary pay for it. People don't want to pay for music, films, movies or public transport anymore, specially young people who are a big part of porn audience.
In my opinion adult movie business struggled big time not findingnew business models (or ppl don't want to change it), that's why you have to bring something extra ppl don't get when getting it for 0 $. By the way I believe in strong clever technical barriers, they are not solution but can help.