theatlantic: Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem The smut business just isn’t what it used to be.  The early days of the Internet were a bonanza for major pornography studios, as the web transformed adult entertainment into an instant, unlimited, and completely private experience — always just a credit card charge and a cable modem away. But what the Internet giveth, the internet taketh away. As the most recent Bloomberg Businssweek recounts in its feature on the rise of the new and controversial .XXX domain, the big production companies have seen their profits shrink by as much as half since 2007, as audiences have fled to aggregators such as XTube and YouPorn that offer up a never-ending stream of free naked bodies. […] In other words, convincing people to pay for to watch sex is a bit like getting them to pay for a newspaper. Read more. [Image: Reuters]

theatlantic:

Why Porn and Journalism Have the Same Big Problem

The smut business just isn’t what it used to be. 

The early days of the Internet were a bonanza for major pornography studios, as the web transformed adult entertainment into an instant, unlimited, and completely private experience — always just a credit card charge and a cable modem away. But what the Internet giveth, the internet taketh away. As the most recent Bloomberg Businssweek recounts in its feature on the rise of the new and controversial .XXX domain, the big production companies have seen their profits shrink by as much as half since 2007, as audiences have fled to aggregators such as XTube and YouPorn that offer up a never-ending stream of free naked bodies. […]

In other words, convincing people to pay for to watch sex is a bit like getting them to pay for a newspaper.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

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  4. inbonobo reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    Not quite. I used to pay for newspapers and magazines, but I never paid for porn.
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    Wait, you want me to pay for titties on the internet? When I get done laughing you can pull the other one, maybe it has...
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  14. haberdashdsgn reblogged this from theatlantic and added:
    “The smut business just isn’t what it used to be.”
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    I guess we’ll all know it when we see it. Right?
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    I guess we’ll all know it when we see it. Right? — tanya b.
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    Interesting point
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    I half expect internet-hating mainstreamers to weep uncontrollably at this. They said amateurs are no match for...
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