How does the porn industry even manage to survive these days? Isn't the Internet and piracy killing it...

How does the porn industry even manage to survive these days? Isn't the Internet and piracy killing it? I seriously doubt that anyone here ever paid for porn

Old and stupid people still buy porn. There are more old people on the planet than young. This isn't complicated.

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Tube sites probably have to buy clips. You'd think the porn companies would sue them into oblivion for using copyrighted material.

Ad revenue is a thing

aren't clips uploaded by normal users?

that's why there is so many that virus up your computer, so the average pervy joe just pays for it and doesn't want the embarrassment of taking it into a shop

I paid for porn once before HD streaming became available. And then again for VR porn, almost impossible to find a lot of that for free in good quality.

I would have bought porn a few times I'm just broke. Besides companies like brazzers, bang bros, none of the smaller guys make much money. Besides all you need to film a porno is 2 people and a camera it costs nothing to produce

It's all about advertisements. Creators sell their stuff to (for example) Brazzers, and Brazzers pays them money they got from ads

Some people like having the full video of all of it and to have unlimited access to any production video. Which is offered like in bangbros if you pay, you get like tons of great shit. Like when people drop bangbros usernames and passwords here sometimes, it's the best. Made me understand why people pay for porn, I wouldn't do it. But after seeing full access I understood

>I seriously doubt that anyone here ever paid for porn

You realize that Sup Forums is a small fraction of the internet right? Anyway I think it's mostly old people who pay for porn.

Probably one of the reasons why they're branching out into sex toys and the likes.
I can very well imagine a hollywood style industry, where you buy Rock Strongos Animal Scent and Sasha Grey Submission Kits.

The big players in porn are much like Walmart - they buy everything (the big tube sites, other free sites) to create a basic monopoly. Since they then own all the porn traffic, they sell advertising (and other types of traffic - skimming from circle jerk sites, etc). Porn itself isn't the product any more.

Ad revenue

I did. Back when I was 18 and had what seemed like a disposable bank account. Brazzers, mofos, twistys, wicked and digital playground accounts. Then they all ceased.

I found out I was paying monthly for mofos instead of doing the lifetime for fifty and as compensation they gave me free Reality kings for a month. It lasted 6 years. Just ceased like two weeks ago. D:

Employ Slavs to keep costs low. Notice how there are increasingly many scenes where the people don't speak and are too skinny to be American? That's porn for export so people can jerk it in any country and language.

> I seriously doubt that anyone here ever paid for porn
Why? I've paid for porn in various types, if it's good quality and what I'm looking for, then why not?

A couple of years ago I bought a year pass to a porn site, over that time I downloaded terabytes of high quality videos and pics, I think it was a good deal.
>pic related

On money from old horny richfags hoping that producing higher production value porn will eventually pay off, and if not, so what, neither do 3/4 of all their other companies, and getting to watch models bang in your living room is more fun, and might even get you laud once in a while.

The bike industry runs like this too. Floating on an endless river of VC $, with no hope of going from red to black.

It's because teenagers will jerk off to anything they don't care. But they are missing out on top quality 4k porn that barely costs anything and is 10x better

to be honest this is a question i have often pondered.

is the actors fee per scene going backwards?

If you want to learn about who runs the online porn industry look up a company called Mind Geek.

It is unless she has unique tits or ass that people want to see. There are so many girls in porn now that you don't have to pay a bitch 2 for a scene when you can find one who'll do it for 500