On Thursday 13 September 2007, jonathon wrote:
> Hal wrote:
> > money for advertising. I'm not sure a free porn site would be able
> > to make enough on advertising to pay for their bandwidth.
>
> The sole function of the "free" porn sites is to induce people into
> buying a membership in one or more of the non-free sites.
So they're essentially teasers? I'm not surprised. I would not think
ad revenue could pay for the bandwidth porn needs and still leave a
profit after that.
> The commission from the membership fees provides the revenue to cover
> the costs of the free site. (Most of the expense of a "free" site is
> the cost of the person who designed/wrote the code for the site. )
> The cost of the "free" content that is displayed, is from using the
> bandwidth of a different site.
Ah, so someone creates a free site, but links to content on another
site? That makes a lot of sense technically.
...
> > In other words, do men browsing porn sites even look at ads?
>
> The images/movies that they offer are the adds that they get revenue
> on. I"m not sure if the design is intentional or not, but the
> strategy is to frustrate somebody into signing up with one of the
> non-free sites, to see anything.
That makes perfect sense to me. Entice then ask for more money.
Thanks for a lot of good info on this. I've studied what it helps to
know because of the effect porn has had on the Internet, but really
haven't bothered with the rest of it, other than all the times I have
to turn down modelling offers... (Okay, so kick me for that one, I
couldn't resist it...)
Hal
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