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Originally posted by Rolo@Jul 5 2004, 07:48 PM
If the adult industry had used the same amount on lawyers in 1996-1997 as we do today, then I´m sure we could have killed the TGP business before it took off, but this was not how we as an industry choosed to deal with it back then, and now in 2004 free porn is here to stay...

However that doesn´t mean that we are doomed into a neverending battle between free porn and paid porn - we need to refocus on our own business model, have TGPs be part of the paid porn business by making them depended on revenue and fresh content from paid porn, and to take more control of the marketing. This is how paid porn will take control of the free porn again - not by the use of lawyers, or politicians, but by the use of $$$ and creative minds.

Best analogy Ive seen in this thread is that TGPs are to the adult world what free programming is to television. A vehicle to sell advertsing.

I can tell you Shemp isnt here to justify or defend the existance of TGPs but rather to hopefully work better together within the industry.

And Ill restate it again...like it or not. TGPs remain one of the last EASY ways of getting any traffic to your programs.