YouTube-Style Porn Threatens Studios
January 29, 2008 | 10:06 pm | by t-blender |Rate It:
news.com.au: AFTER years of booming sales supported by videotapes, DVDs and the internet, the adult film industry is being challenged by easy video-sharing websites offering explicit content for free.
“We’re dealing with rampant piracy, tons of free content,” said Steven Hirsch, co-founder of Vivid, the best-known adult film studio.
Vivid once earned 80 per cent of its roughly $100 million a year from DVD sales, but last year that fell to 30 per cent, Mr Hirsch said.
The challenge of the internet, a topic of discussion at the biggest adult film expo of the year in Las Vegas last week, has already presented itself to the music and mainstream film industries.
Much of the online competition for the US porn world, based largely in southern California, comes from websites like XTube.com which allow users to upload their own videos in a similar format to YouTube.
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