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Originally Posted by RawAlex
(and it ain't me...)
The gist I get is that the majority of the profits in tube sites have nothing to do with porn, but with volume sales of ad space. There are some sales from the porn part, but the vast majority is dating and other upsells. The reality appears to be that porn has become the free give away like music where the money is made on selling something else.
Porn companies need to wake up and say "no dating sites with our content".
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I don't know of my sponsors that allow using their content to promote other sites. As I said earlier in this thread is that they don't even advertise the site they are taking the content from. The legal sites will have a link to the sponsor and maybe a 2 min clip if that saying, "This clip was brought to you by XXXXXXX.com" (example).
I know sponsors including us send out C&D's and DMCA notices all the time (daily just about), not just tube sites but file sharing sites, torrent sites and newsgroup sites. But yes these illegal tube sites are making their money off dating sites like AFF, Fling, you name it. And the terms of most sponsors is that the affiliate must use the sponsors content to promote that sponsor and that sponsor only.
But just as the music industry is having problems, so are the companies in the adult industry that have all this pirated content. It's sad and it'd be nice to see it all go away so that affiliates like you (if you're a affiliate) and others can make more money the honest way instead of these people making money illegal ways. I rank these people up there with drug dealers, never making a buck a honest way. These illegal tube site owners are no better than them.