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Kill Hollywood could learn from the porn industry

3 points| tomasienrbc | 14 years ago |youtube.com

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[+] tomasienrbc|14 years ago|reply
This guy says he saw his business losing profits from the "tube" sites (free porn aggregators) but instead of bitching about it he said: thank you for raising the profile of our industry, now let me go innovate and create something to capitalize on it. Love it.
[+] jeffool|14 years ago|reply
Exactly, the guy saw his profile being raised and instead of saying "I'm not getting paid, let me litigate" he said "How can I be smart and work this to my favor?"

My porn pitch would've been:

Add a streaming video component where people can pay X/minute for 1 on 1 interaction. Allow donations. Let them sell videos for either a given dollar amount or make them freely available when a threshold is met.

Then, on top of that, run a free, ad-driven, anonymous imageboard. (Yes, a "chan.") Give each girl one, and some common spaces for grouping of similar interests. Consider images your business cards, spread them far and wide, freely. Maybe some of your videos too.

Don't sell media, sell a service. And give me a cut.

[+] tomasienrbc|14 years ago|reply
Sounds like he subscribes to the lean model too.