Like many, I'm puzzled why one would pay for porn on the internet when so much is given away for free. I don't just mean the amateur stuff--the pay sites give away a ton of their stuff as samples.
I did an experiment once. I picked a particular model, and would follow links to that model whenever they showed up thumb nail sites, trying to get to the sample photo sets for that model--the ones that give you a dozen good photos and then say the full set is available at some particular paid site.
After my collection for that particular model had stopped growing, so I figured I had most or all of the free stuff, I bought a one month membership at the pay site, and grabbed all of that model's material and compared.
There was nothing there I had not acquired already from the sample sets via the thumb nail sites.
It seems to me one should be able to automate this. That is, make an application that you seed with a list of a several free porn sites, such as thumb nail sites. The application would crawl those sites, and follow the links to other such sites, looking for sample photo sets. It would use face recognition to build up sets of photos classified by model. You could pick specific targets from those sets, or point it at targets you identify in your own browsing, and it would seek to find as much free material involving those targets as it can.
> Like many, I'm puzzled why one would pay for porn on the internet when so much is given away for free. I don't just mean the amateur stuff--the pay sites give away a ton of their stuff as samples.
This didn't make any sense until I got to this
> looking for sample photo sets.
People don't pay for pictures. They pay for 2000+ HD quality videos, carefully and accurately categorised by various topic, by scene. They pay for getting exactly what they want now. They pay to stream in HD, and download HD quality video. They pay for updates. The pay for the exact niche they want.
I work in the industry. Piracy does hurt. We are looking to fight this through quality. Simply put, you can't get the same level of quality from us that you can from free sites. For some people, this doesn't matter. For some, it's the difference between VHS and BluRay.
Our focus is about quality. Quality in the content. Quality in the customer support we offer. Quality in the offers we provide. It's a business, and those that are successful treat it like such. It's actually sad that their is a negative perception around the business. Granted, I just assume that anyone with a negative outlook on the industry is ignorant. Anyone that lets that ignorance affect their judgement is a fool, and is fairly worthless.
Yes, quality customer service. Obviously being in a high risk industry means we have to jump through hoops to keep customers happy, especially when people make the assumption that porn sites are run by crooks.
You're paying for convience in the form of a large corpus of classified content right at your finger tips.
Yes, you can weed through spam and find everything yourself. You can deal with low quality versions vs high quality versions, and slowly build your collection to the point that its a mirror of the paysite but if that time and effort is better spent doing anything else (like say putting in a little overtime at $50+ per hour or spending it with your friends and family) then you will likely choose to pay for porn.
It's not that expensive anyways. At 35$ per month maximum, its barely the cost of a dinner downtown.
Much like we do with github or basecamp, you can do it all yourself but it costs time, if your time is valuable (monetarily or personally) you can just pay the small fees and get it given to you on a plate. Sure you can get most porn for free, but you have to find it.
I did an experiment once. I picked a particular model, and would follow links to that model whenever they showed up thumb nail sites, trying to get to the sample photo sets for that model--the ones that give you a dozen good photos and then say the full set is available at some particular paid site.
After my collection for that particular model had stopped growing, so I figured I had most or all of the free stuff, I bought a one month membership at the pay site, and grabbed all of that model's material and compared.
There was nothing there I had not acquired already from the sample sets via the thumb nail sites.
It seems to me one should be able to automate this. That is, make an application that you seed with a list of a several free porn sites, such as thumb nail sites. The application would crawl those sites, and follow the links to other such sites, looking for sample photo sets. It would use face recognition to build up sets of photos classified by model. You could pick specific targets from those sets, or point it at targets you identify in your own browsing, and it would seek to find as much free material involving those targets as it can.