There’s still going to be room for people to make a living but the middle man is going to be cut out because they deserve to be cut out.

Using that information, it’s a wonder why so many producers haven’t listened to their customers, like you say. That just seems, not only insulting to the customer, but an utterly stupid business practice. If that’s how they operate business, then they deserve to fail, especially during a time that should not be as bad for them, as the rest of the economy.

This is one of the best quotes, ever…

Chuck D talking about music companies, how, when CD’s came out, we all knew they were cheap to produce, even cheaper than cassettes, but they charged $18 for ‘em anyway, because they could. He likened it to a guy on the corner selling M&M’s one at a time, for a dollar apiece. Then the internet came along, and his bag gets a hole in it. And nobody feels too bad about scooping the M&M’s up.

The housing market, when it seemed like anyone could get rich, and if you weren’t rich yet, you were a damn fool.

Amateur porn? Shit, how much is amateur, still? I remember when amateur/gonzo was gonna knock traditional porn right out of the ring, and then it became full of the same crap that turned me off from mainstream porn, as the actresses (presumably) imitated mainstream stars in an effort to get more mainstream work – phony baloney patter and moaning, staring at the camera, the dreaded ‘Elvis lip’….
Shit, I still have some old Ed Powers dvd’s (quit laughing, this was before he assumed the height-to-width ratio of a yam, and I just kind of blanked out his poorman’s Vaudeville shtick), just because the girls looked and acted like ones I’d been with. Or someone’s hot mom I’d wanted, or a quirky girl in class I’d always meant to talk to…

When I heard Burning Angel was doing porn, not just stills, and holy shit, Dana DeArmond was on them, I ordered that shit so fast my computer smoked. Oof, suckered again. If she and Johanna ever make porn that bears some resemblance to how they screw off-camera, you can be sure I’ll order it. But while they eyeball the camera dude and scream like dental drills, forget it.

Hmm, seems like I lost the thread. But I’ll continue to circulate between Redtube, Pornhub, and Youporn, because it’s better than what the big studios put out, with about a minute of searching.

would you want to talk to people who make movies where the actors address you, the viewer, with “sick fuck”? (i’m quoting from Violets book here). sounds to me like a business model that takes the viewer for granted.

Go to the gay sites, the big ones, the small ones, the middle ones, and read a few of the discussions to see for yourself what gay men are saying about gay porn, amateur, pro, vanity sites, whatever. just because they are not discussing pron right in front of your nose doesnt mean they are not talkng amongst themselves. go find them there. i talk to other men about porn all the time (in chat sessions where i can have an alias). i have never filled out a customer survey. no one ever asked me to fill one out for them, because they take the customer for granted.

Just saying, Kink.com….

What I find interesting (and totally unsurprising) about the article is that they talk to mainstream porn types but not to the people who’re supposedly their mighty enemies. Hmm. Whatashock.

People are still making tons of money from porn. Just, like, not the same people.

I hear what you’re saying about customer service, but part of the problem is that most porn customers don’t want to be heard. They want to deny that they jack off to movies. How do you serve a customer base that denies it’s your customer base?