I know many of the major porn studios are seeing lean times due to the economy and the ability to get all the free porn movies you can watch on the internet. Now the movie clips and internet work that individuals/providers produce for the internet is showing up for free. I'll be the first to admit, I watch some of it and haven't rented an x rated movie in a few years now.

I'm just wondering where this is all headed? Will some of the major porn companies start to go out of buisness just like Screw Magazine and The Spectator due to the internet? Or will the industry be taken over by providers and pimps with a camcorder and a desire to make a buck? What about the theft of their work which they sell on websites and "clips for sale"? Will it hurt their buisness or actually give them more advertising for their clips and websites?

Will websites like Redbook get involved and sell ladies space who want to run video to go along with their ads?

BTW: Just my opinion but I think many of the independent people with just a camcorder do a much better job with adult films then the major porn producers.

Also, 20 years ago when VHS was the modern technology,I would have never thought you would be able to stream video on a computer and bounce the signal over to a television, let alone for free.

It first happened to software. Fantastic free Software like Linux/Apache/PHP/etc, combined with massive pirating of the commercial kind, increased choices and availability and lowered costs for the consumer, and dropped the bottom out of everything else.

A topic close to topic: classified ads. Remember going through the back pages of the Guardian or Weekly looking for providers? They had to pay for those ads, and the newspapers made money. With the intenrnet, a huge wealth of info, all free, the ladies ads are a lot cheaper than the old guardian, much more info to the consumer, etc.

The music business? Hah, same thing. Massive amounts of free music out there, on the internet, just hit bandcamp or wherever, plus tons of pirated mp3s all over the place. What happened to the corner record store? Shit, what happened to the entire record industry? Ask Radiohead or Trent Reznor, or any local band. Amazing quantities of great music for free.

Books? Goodbye bookstore, hello Amazon, and tons of free books online too (I'm reading one right now, a textbook on electronic circuits, published for free).

Newspapers and magazines? Forget it, HUGE amount of bloggers out there, doing better investigative work than most newspapers. All available for free. The internet lets the amateurs turn pro and drops the bottom out of the pros, and crushes middlemen of every kind.

What's the use of a research library when you have Google and Wikipedia?

Porn? Same thing. In the 80's my first job out of college was designing VHS porn video box covers for SEVP, VCX, and the like. In the early 2000's the market for internet porn was huge, but now it's all YouPorn and such, a combination of amateur quality getting as good or better than pro, and the pro stuff getting pirated eveyrwhere, same as happened to music.

This is just another one of those internet-driven trends that is great for consumers (us!) and amateur non-pro producers, shitty for the old pre-internet entrenched producers and middlemen, and thins the margins all around for everyone, while increasing choice and availability. It's just what the internet does.

I mean, lookie, for free: http://xhamster.com/movies/367430/milf_with_huge_knockers_is_giving_a_good_head_and_handjob.html