[RawAlex]

Ali, there are two issues that are facing porn that is making it harder and harder for this business to continue forward as a business:

1 - the "free" generation 18 to 25 year olds who think everything on the net is free, all movies, all music, all everything should be free. They are also no shy to put themselves out there on the net in sexy videos and whatnot, and they don't expect to get paid for it. To some extent, I think that this has been another knife right at the amateur market.

2 - as a result of 1, the "value" of porn has dropped dramatically in the last little while. Porn has always been a surcharge / premium price product, selling DVDs or tapes at $39.95 when regular movies at $15.95. People are having a harder time justifying the premium for porn. As a result, many companies are squeezed, unable to produce material at a profitable price, or they are forced to lower payments to performers, move offshore, or otherwise cut corners. A few are doing well, but a huge part of the porn world is suffering greatly.

One of the bigger programs out there recently started to recycle their older content as new, and to recycle content from "this" site onto "that" site as new. Before, they always shot new content. Recently, that flow of new content has slowed to a trickle.

One of the other bigger programs has recently cut new content production in half or less, and is instead producting great hits sites and other variations, again recycling content they already have in the can.

Porn will always be around, the true question is "will there be enough money in it to support the current business models?"