Do you look for new horizons ? or dwell on lost opportunity?

[Weg Cory]

True consolidation is a long time away. The Internet is still a very vast and open wilderness with lots of room for scams and low budget / low quality product.

Two points come to mind:

1) Low finance entry. This is the main reason for saturation. And with large webmasters actually fighting against opportunities to regulate, and no hard plan for law changes, it is sure to continue for a great while. For every large program that fails or consolidates, another 20 webmasters spring up with a tgp or new single-girl site.

2) Regulating the system is nearly impossible at this point. Even when the Gov attempts it, they are usually off-base strategically. They are, simply put, well behind the curve.

Mobile porn and High Def? They are coming IMO. People in this industry allow one week to pass and assume 20 business years have gone by. One economic portion of the adult industy is gone, that economic portion being misinformed consumers tangled up with an esoteric webmaster community; consumers are smarter (getting smarter), webmasters are more vast (getting vaster).

Just my thoughts on it.

[NickPapageorgio]

Originally Posted by Weg Cory

True consolidation is a long time away. The Internet is still a very vast and open wilderness with lots of room for scams and low budget / low quality product.

Two points come to mind:

1) Low finance entry. This is the main reason for saturation. And with large webmasters actually fighting against opportunities to regulate, and no hard plan for law changes, it is sure to continue for a great while. For every large program that fails or consolidates, another 20 webmasters spring up with a tgp or new single-girl site.

2) Regulating the system is nearly impossible at this point. Even when the Gov attempts it, they are usually off-base strategically. They are, simply put, well behind the curve.

Mobile porn and High Def? They are coming IMO. People in this industry allow one week to pass and assume 20 business years have gone by. One economic portion of the adult industy is gone, that economic portion being misinformed consumers tangled up with an esoteric webmaster community; consumers are smarter (getting smarter), webmasters are more vast (getting vaster).

Just my thoughts on it.

Great post Cory.

[Hell Puppy]

Sooner or later, all media is delivered via IP (or whatever it evolves into) and every appliance interfaces with the net in some way. There are tons of applications and business opportunities yet to come. No worries there.

The low cost of entry is one of the root problems of our industry. However, is that truly the problem? I dont think so, I think that's symptomatic of the nature of the internet. Again, remember anyone can publish anything on the net, and they will.

Regulate all TGP's out of existence, get all sponsors to quit giving away free content. And guess what? There'll still be shitloads of free porn on the net. You cant stop that.

The problem with adult is the core underlying business model hasn't evolved much at all since 1998 or so.

[Weg Cory]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Sooner or later, all media is delivered via IP (or whatever it evolves into) and every appliance interfaces with the net in some way. There are tons of applications and business opportunities yet to come. No worries there.

The low cost of entry is one of the root problems of our industry. However, is that truly the problem? I dont think so, I think that's symptomatic of the nature of the internet. Again, remember anyone can publish anything on the net, and they will.

Regulate all TGP's out of existence, get all sponsors to quit giving away free content. And guess what? There'll still be shitloads of free porn on the net. You cant stop that.

The problem with adult is the core underlying business model hasn't evolved much at all since 1998 or so.

$1000 / domain. Problem solved.

Make people take a plan serious. Would we open a bar on a whim with a 100k liquor license needing paid?

[Hell Puppy]

Originally Posted by Weg Cory

$1000 / domain. Problem solved.

Make people take a plan serious. Would we open a bar on a whim with a 100k liquor license needing paid?

Baby with the bath water.

If you charge $1000 per domain you really hurt the entire internet. In fact, pornographers are likely one of the few breeds of smalltime internet publishers who would pay that size fee.

You could try to force porn into .XXX, but I think most of us realize that wont work.

[Weg Cory]

Originally Posted by Hell Puppy

Baby with the bath water.

If you charge $1000 per domain you really hurt the entire internet. In fact, pornographers are likely one of the few breeds of smalltime internet publishers who would pay that size fee.

You could try to force porn into .XXX, but I think most of us realize that wont work.

No, I don't think .xxx works, however, maybe some middle ground, bus lic fees? Something to raise the entry level.

I think one day people will regret percieving the net as a "free, liberated portal."

[TheLegacy]

Originally Posted by Weg Cory

No, I don't think .xxx works, however, maybe some middle ground, bus lic fees? Something to raise the entry level.

I think one day people will regret percieving the net as a "free, liberated portal."

thankfully we have something in common with the christians and bush - they dont want XXX either since it gives recognition to the adult industry as a viable business. its going to be a dead issue