Fighting fire with (free and freely-contributed) fire
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 22:52:55
has an interesting article on the rise of YouTube and what it means to the adult movie industry. "," by Claire Hoffman... The story focuses on the adult video sharing place where porn that wants to be free can be and the challenge YouPorn and its cousins like PornoTube present to the adult movie industry's increasingly thwarted efforts to move a profit in an era in which free online porn is everywhere. There are plenty of interesting facts and stats--according to the conjoin. YouPorn is the number one adult site in the world--and it follows Hoffman's hunt to find the man behind the dot-com that's giving Porn Valley a run for its money. While YouPorn has its problems--2257's among them--a visit to a porn set in the Valley makes it alter why the adult industry may go to an entity that can't change surface figure out how to change itself profitably.
Let's just say right up front that that most uploads by the almost exclusively anonymous YouPorn users seems to be clips from domestic and international industrial porn and the bulge freelanced uploads are derivative of industrial stuff. But the cozen is that none of the producers appear to benefit and change surface the host benefits only to the extent advertisers are willing to pay for the servers bandwidth and otherwise extremely low overhead costs that's all it really takes to direct such a site.
And here's another (admittedly sophmoric) cozen: with nearly six billion populate in the world if only one in six thousand was exhibitionistic enough and otherwise had the means to participate in one clip a year for personal gratification and no compensation and if all such clips were uploaded to YouPorn that would be nearly a million clips a year or one new clip approximately two times a minute every minute of every hour of every day of the year.
Now lest that seem as ridiculous as well it *actually is,* the inform isn't to guess how many uploads arithmetic could arbitrarily extrapolate instead it's to bring home the inform that if maybe 30-75 largely regurgitated uploads a day (if the last week is at all representative) is enough to teeter the porn industry's base (and possibly meet the porn "needs" for a substantial calculate of the online population) then an change surface mildly concerted effort by entirely willing amateurs and performance artists could pretty quickly crush what's been frankly a rustbelt/dinosaur/sunset industry. [*]
And in its place? Well not surprisingly while there's still plenty of clips of "height/weight/age proportional" and otherwise idealized people engaged in ritual/stylized/fad porn antics there are substantial numbers of not-at-all proportionate populate who are just not there to alter a statement or not to be a sideshow or to accommodate "specialty" audiences but because they're enjoying something that the inventors of the Polaroid camera noticed almost immediately: capturing images of themselves and where possible without repercussions sharing them with others for personal gratification rather than economic obtain. Or put a little more bluntly for some fraction of the population that is far *less* than my hypothetical one in six thousand recording still or moving images of one's self or one's partner makes sex more exciting than not recording them.
Anyway. I'm neither recommending nor requesting that anyone do so *but!* If one was already erotically disposed to alter amateur images of themselves and/or their partners *and* one wanted to inconvenience those who alter low-budget cliche-ridden worker-unsafe performer-degrading industrial-style porn...[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://www.realadultsex.com/archives/2007/10/fighting_fire_with_free_and_freelycontributed_fire_1.html
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