Good article, thanks for posting it.

The way I see it, the problem is two-fold: you've got a great deal of people out there who will probably never pay for porn and don't believe they should have to, and second, this business seems to be particularly more cut-throat and scummy than others.

I here from so many people that they'll never pay for porn and don't believe they should have to, so I really have to wonder about the effectiveness of TGP's. Yes, they bring a lot of traffic to a site, and maybe to your sponsors, but is it buying kind of traffic? So are we all just trading traffic back and forth that has little hope of making us any money. What percentage of TGP traffic will actually buy something? Are we all trading thousands of visitors back and forth for the 10% who might buy?

And my second point is that while Lee's suggestion that we should try and limit the number of free images were all giving away is a good one, there will always be webmasters who will see dollar signs and break with the ranks. So, if we all agree that we'll only submit 12 images to a TGP gallery, some webmaster will come along and start submitting 15 or 20 just to get people's interest with the sheer volume of pictures. Eventually other webmasters will get nervous that they're losing out and follow suit, and before you know it, we're back where we started.

I think the biggest problem is that community standards on the Internet have made it acceptable to show cock, tits, and butt holes right out in the open. And with that, came free samples. I think if laws were universal and required all explicit images to be behind members areas, then we'd see the end of "free" porn and an increase in our revenues. But they have to be the same everywhere, otherwise you'll just get porn companies setting up servers in Thailand, or the Congo, or some place.

Cheers
Dzinerbear