I posted this thread from
Techcrunch as I think it is an indicator of where this business may indeed be headed in the very near future.
The 2nd Gold Rush For Porn.
I dont think this concept isnt to far fetched. Examine for instance the fact that this is Scott Bannister's project.
Who?
Why Scott is the cofounder of Ironport which is a company that sells hardware which sends out more spam per machine than you can imagine.
Oh it doesnt stop there either. They also market the CURE for spam on the other side of the fence making them just like our spyware friends of the last few years.
Gets my mind to wondering ...
I read more and more about how mainstream companies are looking to cozy up to the adult biz. Companies like AdultVest who none of us have ever heard of before that are touting these stock deals putting your money to work in porn.
AdultVest . . . name one large deal you've done!
Still, imagine if you will getting into the porn busines without getting your hands dirty.
By INVESTMENT!
I can see some of you lurkers already drooling!
A publicly traded investment pool of a million dollars for what I call JunkPorn companies. The "company founder" could create large free sites by using some of the technology youve seen with torrents and the tube sites.
Then buy up every smidge of shitty traffic and in a heartbeat throttle the alexa rating to the top within 6 months. The "founders" then boast about how this used to take years to accomplish and explain the revenue shortcomings with "adult business takes time to mature."
With that kind of money in action with traffic you could pocket half of it and no one would be wiser. Then start the same cycle over!
By the time anyone figured out it was a JunkPorn company -- you would be a mega millionaire and live aboard.
HOW?
Everyone knows that with that level of traffic you would have some sales. After all traffic drives sales and you could pass off the shorfall with the ..."The Adult Business takes time".
Couple that with investors now have a reason to attend "that porn show in Vegas". They will be highly distracted for years with the circus that accompanies adult shows.
How would it be the second coming?
You revalidate the "brokers" to crawl out from the rocks they have been hiding under. After all
these be newbies ripe to be fleeced!
A dawn of a new age for the "traffic broker" -- the "knowledge broker" --- and the "homey hookup" broker. Happy days are here again.
In the end when the investors realize that the traffic being bought was pure shit and would not sustain any growth you have a bomb-- not dot bomb but Porn Bomb.
Something to think about.
I know I am.
As always Oprano will be the line drawn against the "darkness".
To rebuke all false claims and expose the second generation of scammers.