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• Curious about industry's business future. 9/14/2012 4:11:56 AM
  
  pornlaw wrote: Care to state what tubesite you owned ? Or at least whether it was a legal or illegal tubesite ? That would help foster the discussion. The specific tube site doesn't really matter for the sake of this discussion. I just mentioned this now so others can more easily relate to my perspective. I've tried to make statements that can stand on their own and without reference to specific sites. If I wrote something above that needs more context, I'm happy to expand generically on the point. Are you aware of any vendors offering exceptionally good service built on mined data? I would be so happy to see this happening both as an entrepreneur and customer. Edited by - noos on 9/14/2012 4:38:02 AM

• Curious about industry's business future. 9/14/2012 12:23:56 AM
  
  pornlaw wrote: The future of porn is data mining. [...] But this thread did provoke a discussion yesterday with my research assistant so I decided to write an article. Jambavant you may not want to read it though - it might be too scary. LOL Skimmed the article (http://adultbizlaw.com/?p=1065), seems some legitimate concerns, although it seems to me that online privacy is quickly becoming an antiquated idea. Users for the most part seem to be willing to give up personal info in exchange for better service (case in point: the rise of the freemium business model). Collecting data and profiling users can be effectively used by online porn businesses to increase retention and drive down acquisition costs. I've personally demonstrated the valid...

• Curious about industry's business future. 9/12/2012 3:26:46 AM
  
  RandomPrecision wrote: You can't digitize the real thing. Yet. Are you watching what's going on with live virtual sex and teledildonics? AEBN opensourced the RealTouch earlier this year. A good blog to follow is http://www.slashdong.org/ Edited by - noos on 9/12/2012 3:27:16 AM

• Curious about industry's business future. 9/12/2012 12:38:48 AM
  
  pornlaw wrote: The future of porn is data mining. Do you not think that when you download videos from torrents or go to tubesites to watch free scenes that your information is not being collected ? Cookies, tracking codes, sniffing codes ect...Porn is the new social media for collecting information. I didn't want to open with this topic as it seems tangential to the thread, but if we're going there... I absolutely agree. Riffing on what I wrote yesterday about the market maker increasingly dominating the interaction (Metcalfe's Law states that the value of the network increases with the square of the number of peers, i.e. F(n)=n^2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe's_law), it's pretty obvious that as the number of peers increases, the ...

• Curious about industry's business future. 9/11/2012 12:57:47 AM
  
  Hi! It's my first post. somerset wrote: Even litigation isn't really effective as we can see from the MPAA's and RIAA's track record. Their stuff still gets pirated all the time. And litigation is expensive. The MPAA/RIAA comparison is valid, but the porn industry is in a more precarious position. This is because IP-based video distribution is now mature (YouTube, Vimeo) and the industry is *still* not as integrated into the mainstream content distribution network. Even if people pirate "Game of Thrones" on the internet, HBO still makes money through their partnership with cable companies' who have a monopoly on physical cables running into homes. Quite possibly more money than they would make in a subscription (Netflix) or a-la-c...