Quote Originally Posted by jIgG View Post

Of the 10-15 people I knew who eagerly and regularly paid for porn, rebilling lifor years, some with dialers (!!!), are not paying anymore they're torrenting instead.

Then there's AllPeers on Firefox and of course newsgroups which is probably bigger than torrents.

then you have xtube/pornotube - when I want to rub one off I go there, and extremely rarely anymore to TGPs. I've noticed xtube is growing by leaps and bounds it's like the new TGP craze

Wow, there's a lot of amateur porn on xtube, and I think it's a lot hotter than what most pay sites have to offer. Boyfriends having sex bareback, guys wanking off and showing all this for free. The only drawback is the poor quality of the movies.

Add to that entire movies from professional studios that are pirated on bittorrent. No wonder it's 10 times harder to sell a membership these days than just a year ago. My guess is that only rarer fetish-oriented sites will be able to resist this new trend, but the more general ones will either have to vastly improve their quality and/or decrease prices... It's much like when people started downloading music, only here amateur stuff isn't really copyright infringement so nobody can complain.

Not a fun time to be a small adult webmaster.