Paying/not paying for porn

[SixT9er]

I need someone to explain to me what’s wrong with going to a free porn site such as Porn hub or Redtube. These sites have video’s that are posted by the pay porn sites. I don’t watch a lot of porn but when I’m in the mood these sites with their 10-20 minute clips is plenty for me so I don’t subscribe to porn sites because this is available for free.
I see a lot of Ladies posting rants on twitter about people not paying for porn or often #payforporn things like this. I’m confused as to why If these pay sites are posting these video’s is it so wrong to watch it there?
If it can be explained to me in a way that makes sense, I’ll stop going to these sites and stop watching any porn as I choose to use my money on live personal connections

[billwh]

I've been going to xnxx.com ever since I first got onto the internet in 2002. At first there would be the occasional lady that really stood out among the rest and I might pay to view her site for a month or so.


But I guess I am just not THAT interested anymore. I'll watch the free stuff occasionally. It's not a big deal anymore.


Even when I really liked it, I found it exciting for about five minutes. Then, it's the same old same old.

[MrTShirt]

One year at AVN, a lady selling her porn asked me about buying some.
I told her I like the real thing.

[SixT9er]

From what I can piece together the problem with free porn is boot legged porn videos cutting into the profits of the porn producers thus subsequently cutting the number of video’s being produced. This combined with the increase in the numbers of people who want to be performers in porn has caused pay to remain stagnant over the past 5 or so years.
So the free porn indirectly affects the performers in the form of less work but not in reduced income per movie/scene as porn performers are only paid a one time fee for the scenes they are in. Unlike mainstream actors who get residuals everytime their movie/tv show is shown etc.
This all brings me back to: I don’t feel I’m a bad guy as I’m watching videos that are put on these free sites by the companies that produced them to begin with. If these sites don’t want to lose this money then they shouldn’t put out their content for free. These performers who are upset about this freeporn should be complaining to all these porn producers putting their videos out for free

[rachelvarga]

A lot of that free porn is ripped off. Cam girls get ripped off when people post them.  That's revenue they would earn that they lose.

Producers don't put out free stuff. They would lose money. Sometimes it's a clip as a teaser that they might put out.

Those free sites are nothing compared to Bittorrent. That's where all the movies are released in HD, not in a crappy format on streaming sites.

It's hard to feel sorry for porn companies though. They don't pay royalties like the music business. Porn companies are extremely exploitive and basically a lot are dirtbags.