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| 02-24-15 08:55am - 3589 days | #11 | |
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If it's a moral issue, you needn't worry too much about the tube sites; the big ones are mostly legit now, and act as 'affiliates' (third party promoters that link to the source paysite and receive a commission for any sales). Of course, it's not perfect, but mainly not piracy. | |
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| 02-24-15 08:53am - 3589 days | #9 | |
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We shoot stills and videos separately, sometimes on different days. The audio/lighting requirements sort of insist on it. The negative side to doing it this way is that people will sometimes assume the video and the stills are of the same thing, then get annoyed if something is different, or one set is missing something that happened in the other. | |
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| 02-13-15 09:32am - 3600 days | #8 | |
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One of the main reasons content creators use payment processors is because doing all that yourself requires an exhaustive web of accounts, compliance, and hoop jumping in multiple countries. There's bitcoin, sure, but the other huge advantage to credit card processors is that almost everyone has a credit card. Bitcoin by comparison is a highly unstable, pretty obscure option- it's also not known or used by most of the people who would be interested in buying the content. It'd be like trying to sell newspapers in New York, but only accepting Indian Rupees; sure there's some people who have Rupees, and sure, anyone can get them, but it's just another obstacle to a sale in a business with lots of obstacle-free competition. This is probably not a 100% kosher opinion, but I would say that pirated content hubs would offer the most convenient and complete repository of retired content (and in this instance aren't really infringing on any content creators). | |
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| 01-16-15 07:49am - 3628 days | #6 | |
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Judging from their site, it can add watermarks in a bunch of flexible ways. There's no bulk, after-market method of removing watermarks. Conceivably, with time and skill, you could individually remove transparent watermarks one at a time, but the only way to remove solid watermarks is to have the master file, (which has the watermarks on a separate layer). | |
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| 01-13-15 09:14am - 3631 days | #45 | |
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Big monitors are so worth it, but I must stress 'monitor'. Using a massive TV as your monitor has novelty value, but the dpi (density of the pixels) is comparatively quite low on a TV (because they're supposed to be viewed at a distance). Up close, the quality of a 1080p HD TV isn't that great (again, a HD computer monitor has the same number of pixels packed into a much smaller screen). This makes the picture much sharper on a purpose built computer monitor. But, yeah, no doubt: if $50k fell out of the sky and into my pocket, I'd grab a meter wide 4k ultra-HD monitor, (and I wouldn't regret a thing). | |
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| 12-11-14 03:53am - 3664 days | #23 | |
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Wasn't expecting today's existential crisis. Then again, I suppose you never do. On the topic of VR, I actually own an Oculus, and develop for it. If you're not sure what that is- it's the cutting edge of present day VR tech. While it's a cool device, perhaps poised to take video games in a new direction (as arcades, home consoles, and home PCs once did), it's a far cry from 'true' simulated reality. So far, in fact, that at this stage, nobody is really entertaining that as the stated goal of the technology. Before we could conceivably hijack the electrical charges of the brain to feed it an 'as real' virtual reality, we'd first need to fully understand the architecture and data encoding in organic chemistry. What does a memory look like on paper? Is it a sequence of neuron impulses? Are lipids and hormones involved? What part of the memory of my childhood car stores the fact that it was red (even if it in actual fact wasn't)? As a civilisation, we haven't even scratched the surface of stuff like this. In the much more plausible near future, we might indeed end up with an expertly crafted and presented visual feed of a virtual reality- but until we start lying to the brain (matrix-style) it'll always be obviously fake, even if impressive. Just like a video of the Grand Canyon on your TV, whilst imparting some of it's beauty, isn't confused with a window overlooking the canyon itself. I'm not even sure we will unravel the mysteries of the brain- it might be beyond us, or it might take longer to do than we have time left. If we do decode the informational architecture of the brain, the ramifications would be huge, though. Though certainly it might mean some sweet VR, it would also mean the ability to rewrite people's memories, personalities, likes and dislikes. Power like that would almost certainly be abused. In the interim, Graymane, I'd recommend you investigate lucid dreaming; mother nature's VR! | |
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| 12-09-14 05:43am - 3666 days | #11 | |
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This is exactly their agenda, and as well intentioned as it may be, regulating erotica to fit within prescibed 'healthy' boundaries implicity rules out divergent erotica as unhealthy. This, I think, is where the issue lies. Erotic play comes in all sorts of flavours, I just don't think it's fair or right to ostracise consensual kinks as deviant, unhealthy, or illegal. Legally endorsed, prescriptivist stances enforcing a paradigm of mainstream sexuality is exactly the same kind of thinking behind the discrimination against LGBT groups- invoking protection of children to outlaw and witch-hunt 'sexual deviants'. Ultimately, all it really comes down to is the insecurity of powerful individuals and dominant subcultures- they fear watersports and homosexuality because they don't understand it, and therefore think it poses some sort of threat to their vanilla heterosexuality. Perhaps simply tolerating diversity entertains the notion that vanilla heterosexuality isn't the one-true-way to enjoy sex. They can't handle it. The grand irony is that all of this does diddly squat to actually put an end to perceived deviant behaviour. Kinks and divergent sexualities still exist, they just go underground, where they become something like a dirty secret. Large sections of the population harbour feelings of guilt and uncleanliness thanks to a narrative of mandatory heretonormativity. Sometimes, the pressure is too much, and people commit suicide. /rant | |
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| 11-28-14 08:22am - 3677 days | #5 | |
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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope it was an excellent feast (man I'd love to go to a thanksgiving feast someday). | |
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| 11-26-14 03:01am - 3679 days | #71 | |
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We don't do Thanksgiving where I'm from, or where I'm living (Australia and The Netherlands respectively), but I wish we did. It's a great idea; who doesn't want another food-based holiday? Of course, the whole pilgrims and Native Americans narrative isn't widely applicable, but I suppose we could rebrand it as the 'harvest festival'. But that raises another issue - proper harvest festivals (which the US Thanksgiving was originally inspired by) are supposed to coincide with the autumn harvest, which happens around the end of September in the Northern hemisphere, but around the end of May in the southern hemisphere. This presents a dichotomy - is it more important that thanksgiving be autumnal and related to the harvest, or that it happens late in the year, not too long before Christmas? Either way is a legitimate option, but generally in Australia we keep the dates of northern European seasonal celebrations, and rebrand them with the drastically different seasonal feel (e.g. for Australians, Christmas is about BBQs in the park, sunny days at the beach, swimming in the pool, and seafood). I lean towards making it a harvest festival, and putting it at the end of Autumn (because I think the opportunity to have relevant, local, seasonal, fresh food is more important than the date). Fun thing to think about! I'm going to try and track down some American expats and see if we can give Thanksgiving a spin. Have fun, pornusers! | |
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| 11-21-14 06:19am - 3684 days | #56 | |
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Don't worry. Come what may, we're here to stay  | |
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I lost my original AW stuff in a hard drive crash years ago, and I would be kicking myself to this day if you guys had not hung in there, and I could not rebuild my AW collection.| 11-20-14 07:30am - 3685 days | #9 | |
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See ya Cybertoad, take care. | |
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| 11-18-14 07:50am - 3687 days | #54 | |
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The difference between giving the FCC and the ISPs free reign over the internet is that the FCC has public oversight. Not saying public institutions can't be hijacked or abused; just that there are systems in place to prevent that, mandated transparency to see it happening, and recourse for citizens if it does happen. If the ISPs are in charge, it all happens behind closed doors, without public input, in the service of their balance sheet instead of common interest. There is a third way, besides letting bureaucrats and plutocrats regulate the internet, a way that already effects an influence on internet policy just by it's presence (despite being entirely outside established power structures). The way will likely present itself prominently if either the bureaucrats or plutocrats are successful in seizing the internet, and go too far: internet anarchy, the unregulated world wide web. If the powers that be close the vice too hard on the internet, they will just squeeze data and people into the darknet. Right now it's a fringe, niche thing, because it's not essential. But if the internet was changed to a glorified cable tv service, with curated channels, you bet I'd be on the darknet. The networks are in place, you can't unmake the internet, unliberate information. It's too late for that. | |
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| 11-18-14 07:40am - 3687 days | #19 | |
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I don't know that there is a serious threat posed to the internet by liberals. Currently the biggest and most real threat to the internet is posed by right wing media corporations and ISPs, who want to eliminate net neutrality such as to turn the internet into a tiered, curated service controlled in the service of their bottom line. They basically want to turn the internet into cable tv. The difference between these guys, and extreme religious and political whackjobs from across the spectrum (who want to censor stuff they don't agree with), is that these industrial giants have the lobbyists, political connections, and megabucks to make their vision a reality. Having the FCC reclassify the internet as a common carrier, a utility (like telephones), would reflect the actual reality of the situation (the internet is in practice a utility, these days), and protect US consumers from predatory oligopolies double-dipping (by charging content creators and end users for the same thing) and from shaping the internet into a giant subscription service to their business. If the FCC wanted to impose an internet tax, then it ought to be guaranteed to every citizen, like water. | |
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| 11-14-14 02:49am - 3691 days | #14 | |
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Bing and Yahoo are the biggest competitors in the mainstream market. Baidu and Yandex are bigger than Google in China and Russia respectively. Duckduckgo is a privacy-oriented search engine that has a cult following amongst google-skeptics and Bing's video search is widely regard as superior than Google's particularly for porn. By specialising on the specific cultural/linguistic demographics, Baidu and Yandex become better than Google for certain people. By focussing on something some people care a lot about (privacy) Duckduckgo has carved itself a niche that Google can't really move in on. As an advertiser, Google 'has the balls' of online companies only as much as Facebook does. Also, their pricing model for adwords is very forward-thinking and reasonable, I think. It is definitely a well designed cash machine, but only because it offers a great service at a compelling price for advertisers, and unobtrusive, often-relevant ads for users. | |
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| 11-14-14 02:30am - 3691 days | #49 | |
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I'm more optimistic for the fate of American internet users. Europe has already been leading the way for years with respect to legislating net neutrality, and the notion of the internet as a utility (or even a basic civil right, like education and free speech, in some places). Plus Obama recently spoke in favour of net neutrality, which whilst not at all binding, sets the tone of the conversation within the US considerably. Based on that, I think the FCC is going to come around to presidential and global consensus, regardless of industry pressure. Even if it doesn't, it's not all bad news; if the FCC defies public will, presidential opinion, and global trends to protect Comcast and Verizon, the corruption will be evident, and the outrage widespread. Most likely a move like that would instigate or fuel calls for change. | |
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| 11-13-14 03:33am - 3692 days | #11 | |
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I'd say Google's done a fine job of integrating an inoffensive ad revenue without clutter and spam, and whilst preserving the relevance and integrity of results. Sites do spend an inordinate amount of money and time trying to 'beat' the Google ranking algorithms, something that id decreasingly effective (it's a constant race between shady SEO techniques, and google algorithm updates). Google does give free and open advice on how to best optimise your site, however- nothing shady, just tips like 'don't keyword stuff', 'use keywords in URLs', 'give more important words prominence with heading tags', etc. The search engine market is the opposite of a monopoly. When googled entered it, it was saturated. They had a vastly superior product, and rose to the top of this saturated market (which remains saturated to this day). There are countless competitors to google in every field they engage in- their dominance of the market isn't monopolistic, though, it's competitive. | |
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| 11-12-14 02:54am - 3693 days | #9 | |
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Yeah, I'd agree with this. The day Google becomes a tool to subsidise and promote an ailing industry model is the day Google stops being a search engine. I think the responsibility falls upon the industry to adapt to the internet, not for the internet to adapt to the industry. That's understandably a hard pill to swallow for many, because the way forward isn't clear, nor is it clear if they'll ever again have billionaire producers and superstars like they did when they held the bottleneck of media. | |
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| 11-12-14 02:44am - 3693 days | #3 | |
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Also Remembrance Day in Australia, and also not a public holiday. Also, it's more focused on WWI and WWII than veterans in general. Like, the veterans show up, but more to honour the fallen, than to be honoured. We don't really do the whole 'support the troops' thing like America does. Same deal with our other military themed holiday (ANZAC day)- specifically about WWI, and in fact commemorates a crushing military defeat we suffered at the hands of the Turks (at Gallipoli). Almost 60,000 Australians and New Zealanders (and twice that number of Tommies) died at Gallipoli, by far the biggest loss for our comparatively small countries, mostly wasted on hopeless cliff assaults and bayonet charges across no man's land, from trench to trench, against machine gun fortifications. The general opinion in Australia is that the Turks were just defending their home, and that a devastating number of Australians died in vain at the behest of the British Empire. It is cited by many as the 'true' birth of Australian identity, and the source of a cynicism towards war and pro-war nationalism in Australian culture (which was what sent a lot of those soldiers to their death). For us, veterans are more often cast as victims of an injustice, than heroes to be thanked. | |
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| 11-07-14 08:36am - 3698 days | #8 | |
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I doubt the election is going to impact much at all, to be honest. With a first-past-the-post/two-party-system as intractable as the one in the US, and fixed corporate lobbyists regardless of who's in office, the chance for drastic change (positive or negative) is pretty slim. I predict zero meaningful changes. | |
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| 11-06-14 05:09am - 3699 days | #4 | |
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That's an awful, convoluted process. It doesn't even make sense, if you ask me. While you might successfully scam some folks with some unwanted rebills, you're also going to get way more chargebacks, which is going to either increase the rates you pay the bank for your merchant account, or risk the account itself. Additionally, you lose out on repeat business- a cost that magnifies over time. Many of our customer have been coming and going for years, some for more than a decade. I don't doubt that if we obfuscated the cancellation process, many of these return members would have never returned. Making customers jump through hoops to manage their accounts is a dodgy, shortsighted strategy. | |
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| 10-30-14 08:04am - 3706 days | #4 | |
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No more than Muhammed Ali is asking to get punched in the face. "He can't just spend his life fighting people in the ring and not expect any consequences. He has profited off the glorification of violence in society. He's clearly partly to blame when people come up to him in the street and want to fight; he's made a living off encouraging and simulating that. I'm not saying it's right for an old man to get hurt, just that he brought it on himself if it happens. Especially if he's wearing shorts." | |
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| 10-30-14 07:54am - 3706 days | #45 | |
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The market is saturated with models, shooters, studios, affiliates, and publishers. It's a pretty saturated market all around; so the competition is going to be fierce no matter how you step into it. That it's hopeless to start, though, or that no new professionals are successfully entering the industry. At careers.abbywinters.com we've got a posting for contract shooters; you'd be surprised how few serious applicants we get (granted we require exclusivity, albeit whilst paying higher rates). While it's true there's a million guys with good cameras and hot girlfriends around, their professionalism is often below par, and their skills aren't quite as good as they think they are. We provide (required) training in our style and technical standards via learn.abbywinters.com, and applicants flat out refuse to do it- they think they're above it. With dedication, professionalism, and skill, I'd say it's very realistic to aspire to making one's way as a shooter (or most things, really). If we want to look at the 'easiest' job to get in adult, once you have the skills, then that would have to be web developer. Getting the skills is the trick, though. | |
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| 10-29-14 03:36am - 3707 days | #43 | |
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My recommendation would be to look into becoming a freelance shooter. You'll need equipment and skills, but you'll have discretion, creative control, and the chance to build a reputation for excellent content. Stefan Soell is an example of a well known photographer who contributes scenes to femjoy. Petter Hegre is a photographer who started his own site (with a focus on high quality erotic photography). | |
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| 10-28-14 06:49am - 3708 days | #31 | |
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A friend of mine, not a model but an escort, calls this 'tragedy porn'. Mainstream conservative moralists get off on the tragedy wicked people have to endure, under the guise of caring and empathising. She's a successful, educated, happy, healthy, and professional escort; in her line of work there are quite a few social workers and charities on patrol looking out for 'at risk' girls (who are definitely there, and have real problems). These people have all the time in the world to talk about abusive pimp boyfriends, deadbeat dads, lost faith, and drug abuse- but the second they meet a well adjusted, happy, and successful sex worker, they just shut down to the point of hostility. Clear headed, professional adult work is antithetical to the moralist narrative they peddle. That's why there's not more of these cool interviews of which you speak. | |
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| 10-28-14 06:40am - 3708 days | #40 | |
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TVFR raises a good point. A pretty solid shot at making porn, for a profit, on the downlow, would be to become a contract shooter for an established site. The obstacles to that would be: (a) Getting all the required equipment. (b) Getting good enough at it to meet professional standards. (c) Recruiting models. (d) Finding buyers for shoots you make. | |
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| 10-24-14 03:10am - 3712 days | #732 | |
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My 2 cents: it's up to the industry to come up with a business model compatible with the harsh realities of the internet. Relying on the noble spirit of the public to do the right thing, or fighting the nature of the internet itself, isn't a sustainable strategy. Most likely we'll see a transition away from traditional studio paysites, into the next, more-viable business model. Just like the shift from magazines to VCR, to DVD, to online paysites. | |
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| 10-24-14 03:04am - 3712 days | #35 | |
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You can do it with lower overheads if you want to give up independence and moneymaking potential. Like having an nsfw tumblr, for instance; plenty of folks build quite a fandom by posting quality amateur content there, and can subsequently convert a bit of that to some pocket money with the right auxiliaries. Nothing like big porn money, though. | |
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| 10-24-14 03:01am - 3712 days | #24 | |
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My favourite thing about her was how she rocked the 'sexy nerd' thing; she was damn clever, articulate, and had a lot of interesting and well developed opinions on a lot of topics. Reminds me of the kind of girls I normally get involved with. | |
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| 10-24-14 02:57am - 3712 days | #2 | |
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I know you've said we're a little too softcore before, but we do have 40-odd Girl-Boy scenes between real-life couples (and release one every month), as well as hundreds of hardcore girl-girl scenes. Most of all, we check every one of the other boxes you listed. Just sayin... | |
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| 10-23-14 02:55am - 3713 days | #19 | |
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Not sure if it's just my perspective, or if she's actually prominent in the mainstream, but Stoya seems to be a bit of a big deal. | |
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| 10-23-14 02:49am - 3713 days | #33 | |
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All good points, but that's why I included the caveat 'if money's not the focus'. If you're interested in self-publishing some porn for the love of it (or anything, for that matter), it's never been easier to do - everything from hosting, to web design, to payment processing has been highly developed into free-or-cheap uncomplicated prepackaged services. If you want to launch a competitive, profit-orientated site, it's never been harder. The market is saturated with big players, innumerable small fish, free promotional content, and pirated content. I wouldn't recommend it as a commercial venture, but mean to say that it's very achievable as a passion project. | |
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| 10-23-14 02:40am - 3713 days | #25 | |
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I've gotta say you can't beat an HDMI cable with a wireless keyboard and mouse. All three cost peanuts, and you eliminate all the headache of moving files between devices, format issues, and DRM- you're literally just using your TV as your computer monitor. Not an option if your TV doesn't take HDMI, but if your TV doesn't take HDMI it's not likely to look much better than your computer screen anyway. If your computer is too far away from your TV, you could use a laptop. Alternately, if you're feeling like a fun DIY project, you could make your own media device using a raspberry pi (tiny, credit-card-sized, barebones computer that goes for $35) | |
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| 10-22-14 05:39am - 3714 days | #29 | |
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The proliferation of cheap and free out of the box solutions, and skilled labour. In the past, to make a paysite you had to make it, from scratch. Content management systems, download servers, user account management, integration with a third party biller. Most likely you'd need the help of some experts, and they weren't as plentiful back then (read: expensive). Nowadays there's a well documented API, and open source software package (with free community support), a rentable CDN, affordable experts available on contract from vetted and accountable agencies, and more. While this makes starting a site even with little-to-no capital, knowledge, or time is easier than before - it also means lots of people have done it (meaning it's not the booming racket it once was, the days of overnight millionaire porn king pins are gone). The proliferation of micro-sites is insane, because the overheads are negligible. It's not unusual for a relatively no-name model to have her own site, they're not in the big bucks, and they typically don't come from a web development background. Still, with persistence, it's still very achievable to pull together a small site, focussed on a very specific niche, that runs at a modest profit (the overheads are just so low). The other option is to forget the hard slog to establish and sustain a small site, and just contribute content on a pre-existing platform. There are a number of sites that essentially offer a no-expertise required paysite in a box; you just put your content up and they handle the rest (taking a cut, of course). Live cam sites aren't too far from this either- they've built the streaming porn infrastructure, and traffic flow, you just get in front of a camera and get naked. Then there's stuff like tumblr, and the nsfw realms of social media, where you can give content away in return for attention and perhaps fandom. Lots of people from the last group do this to build a following, which they then try to direct to their camshows, panty store, or hosted paysite to monetise. Lots of people just post homemade adult content on social media sites for fun, without setting out to make a buck out of it (nothing wrong with that either). That final option is by far the quickest and easiest way to publish some online porn, if money isn't a priority. | |
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| 10-21-14 04:16am - 3715 days | #27 | |
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On the positive side, it's never been easier to start your own site. That's a detriment when it comes to the immediate profitability, but if money's not the primary focus, it's more than realistic to aim for creating great content and building a following. In fact, you may consider using a platform like tumblr, possibly in tandem with a micro-paysite to monetise any hardcore fanbase you might build. | |
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| 10-16-14 04:50am - 3720 days | #721 | |
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Thanks for adding Khan, and for the review Jook! | |
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| 10-15-14 09:09am - 3721 days | #16 | |
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While I don't doubt that the worst examples exceed this dreary account, it's not at all the standard. Sites like ATK, Met Art, and Hegre-Art pay Eastern European models no less than Western European models, and treat them fine (they are all solo erotica sites, however). The preference for Eastern European models on a lot of sites arises because the fixed rate for a scene is more attractive in Eastern European countries (€500 goes a lot further in Bucharest than it does in London). Additionally, I've heard photographers saying Eastern European models are easier to work with; punctual, professional, and so on. Finally, for some reason, they're more often of the body type glamour sites favour (slender and delicate). We don't shoot a lot of Eastern European models at abbywinters.com (because we're not in Eastern Europe and all of our content is exclusive and shot in-house). That said, Eastern European models have on occasion come to us; we paid them the same rate we would any other model, and were as respectful as usual. As for rates, we can't disclose specifics, but out models earn hundreds of Euros per shoot (how many hundreds depends on how explicit the shoot is). Ordinarily models who shoot for us do a string of shoots all in one go over the course of a week or two; providing they are up for girl-girl and/or girl-boy, they might walk away with a couple of grand. As an amateur site, though, we don't have ongoing 'porn-stars' on the site; for most of our models, appearing on our site is a short walk on the wild side with a tidy sum for something fun. | |
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| 10-14-14 04:47am - 3722 days | #11 | |
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Hrm, you've got competing priorities here. The more successful you are producing porn, the more likely it will be that your alter ego will be stumbled upon by someone you know. | |
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| 10-10-14 05:38am - 3726 days | #713 | |
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I came across an Australian-themed site the other day, aussieass.com. I often like to use TBP/PU to gather a bit of intel and get a gist of what a site's about, but these guys aren't listed on either. | |
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| 10-09-14 08:04am - 3727 days | #9 | |
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lol, good luck mate. Most serious paysites don't sell ad-space (it shits of the members, who rightly feel that by paying they needn't have to deal with ads). Not sure about Brazzers specifically, but as one of the biggest studios out there, if the do sell adspace it's not going to be cheap. Perhaps GFY would be a better place for this line of questioning? It's an affiliate discussion board, just google 'GFY affiliates' and you should find it. | |
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| 10-08-14 10:09am - 3728 days | #46 | |
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I'd love to visit USA in person to experience these freedoms, but I'm a little intimidated by the closed borders, invasive TSA, and the fact that it has the world's second highest incarceration rate (ahead of Russia, China, Iran, all of the Middle East, and all of Africa! My home country isn't even in the top 100). But you're right, this isn't the place. I'd like to reply on-topic, but in both my home country and the country I'm living in right now, prostitution is legalised and regulated. So again, I'm unable to relate due to not being a free American. | |
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| 10-07-14 03:20am - 3729 days | #43 | |
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Well I'm not American, but I must disagree, Cybertoad. The American Constitution is a landmark document in the history of democracy and political rights, but it's not inviolable. After all, they are called 'amendments' - 'changes' of which many have been applied, and will continue to get applied. There is a rigorously controlled system to amend the constitution, and that is how all the amendments got there in the first place. For instance, the 13th amendment was added to the constitution to abolish slavery, after the civil war. The most recent amendment was added in 1992. 10 amemndments were added in the last 100 years, of which one was responsible for prohibition (and was later repealed). My point is that in the American system of government, the constitution isn't a holy document of unbreakable commandments. It is normal and acceptable for amendments to get added and repealed, and sensible systems govern that process. More to the point, repealing or elaborating upon the second amendment wouldn't threaten the first amendment any more than any of the other many changes to the constitution did. They are entirely separate amendments about unrelated topics. Finally, it's my understanding that the mainstream anti-gun position in the US is not actually focussed on repealing the second amendment so much as enforcing it (specifically, the part about only have the right to bear arms as part of a well regulated militia). | |
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| 10-03-14 05:00am - 3733 days | #40 | |
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It's pretty simple, I think; if the FCC doesn't pull their finger out and reclassify the internet as a common carrier, then Verizon TWC and Comcast will eventually succeed in eliminating net neutrality. This will turn the internet into a glorified cable service. In America. Currently, America is undoubtedly the hub of the internet. If net neutrality crumbles there, the internet will still be 'free' everywhere else, and we'll just see a migration of focus, probably to the EU (which already boasts faster average speeds and superior infrastructure anyway). Additionally, the multilayered regulatory environment of the EU makes it exceptionally harder for plutocrats to hijack. | |
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| 10-02-14 02:53am - 3734 days | #11 | |
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Check out ishotmyself.com, they're a great 'indy' site, and friends of ours. | |
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| 10-01-14 02:29am - 3735 days | #7 | |
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Cheers for that, Khan; I had no idea. Even despite this French review site, I'm dubious as to whether there are going to be many significant sites that offer exclusive content, not to the US market. It'd just be a weird business choice; the US market is huge and accessible. The language barrier doesn't explain it, either. English is just so widespread, particularly amongst web developers and coders (because programming languages and internet standards sort of lean on English as an assumed basis). | |
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| 09-30-14 09:15am - 3736 days | #5 | |
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I know of a french porn review site, not sure if linking to it is kosher, howerver. Shoot us an email at abby@abbywinters.com and I'll shoot you back a link. | |
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| 09-26-14 05:07am - 3740 days | #8 | |
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Thanks for the kind words, Graymane; that's high praise coming from such a well regarded and longstanding community member. | |
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| 09-26-14 05:03am - 3740 days | #4 | |
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 Nice. | |
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| 09-24-14 04:49am - 3742 days | #2 | |
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Hrm, well by virtue of working at a porn studio, most of the porn I see hasn't been released yet. That said, I did see a great girl-boy scene that just got released today. Gisela and Henk are a real life couple, so their scene was very sweet and playful- lots of kisses and smiles. | |
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| 09-24-14 04:45am - 3742 days | #12 | |
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You said it, Cybertoad, the economic pinch squeezes especially hard on luxuries. While we're not barnstorming like we used to, we're still going strong- we'll be waiting for you at the other side! Back to OP- other sites that do good girl-girl and solo content; femjoy.com/joymii.com/nutabu.com. All sister sites, slightly different flavours, all great. Femjoy is very softcore solo erotic photography, joymii is more porny and hardcore (and features girl-girl and girl-boy), nutabu is... hard to describe- globetrotting gonzo smut, I guess. | |
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| 09-23-14 02:30am - 3743 days | #10 | |
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Thanks for the feedback on price guys. Having a hefty pricetag like ours does put us above the price point of some potential customers, but there is a practical element to it as well - we shoot 100% exclusive content, in-house; we train all of our own shooters, prospect our own genuine amateur models (i.e. no casting agencies), shoot our own scenes, and edit them in house. In the traditional sense, we're a 'studio'. A lot of the bigger sites outsource all of that; the models, the shooters, the editors, even premade imagesets and videos are often bought a budget prices from 3rd party contractors. This is cost effective, but it does result in unreliable quality, and a 'samey' flavour that comes with a loss of creative control. The proposition of competing with aggregator sites like these on the basis of price is a hopeless one. If we try that with our current model, we'd just fail. The alternative would be to become more like them, drop member rates, and loosen up on the exclusivity and creative control to hire external contractors (not necessarily an awful idea). We weighed it up (and took in a lot of feedback), and decided to go the other way- specialise in our niche, focus on making great content in our own style, and essentially be a costlier premium 'boutique' studio site. It doesn't do us favours as far as capturing the mass market (we'll leave that to Brazzers), but we are a hit with afficionados of the niches to which we cater. | |
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