But there would soon come a price to pay, a price higher then pornographers were making with all this good will on the net.

It became too apparent too late that audiences were availing themselves of free porn videos. Dirty stuff that pornographers worked hard to produce-from paying pricey popular porn stars, to shooting in foreign locations-was being undercut by the fact that the audience for naughty movies could and were seeing those movies on-line, for free! The medium that pornographers had been championing has turned around to stab them in the back and what’s more they were pretty much powerless to stop it.

At this stage in the evolution of the net pretty much everyone who has ever sold am product or service is rethinking how to monetize it. This is as true for porn movie makers as anybody else. Everyone is scrambling to be ahead of technology-which they can never be-anticipate what the public wants-when the public doesn’t even know what it wants-and hope to make money from what they do in a format that they can’t be ripped off from-which no one has yet been able to figure out.

Digital image can be pirated, download and manipulated by the layman as much as the makers of those images and there is no reason to believe that more and more free porn videos will be seen and released for mass consumption while the studios that made those videos won’t be left chasing their own tails.

Everywhere you look there is free porn…at least on the net. We might still have to buy magazines, purchase or rent DVD’s, even pay to see some strippers in action, but on the web there is free porn coming at us all the time. It is a cornucopia of stuff that has no limit in content nor is there any regulation of how often we can get it. The digital age has been a boon for the dirty movie connoisseur.

The makers of porn are dealing with a double-edged sword with all this free content though. In one way they can reach a wider audience than ever before. They can advertise all their titles, they can sell their movies, they can even create a demand for more, simply be bolstering their on-line presence. Digital downloading is a way to view porn films whose time has come.

But the facility leads to some lessening of the content at the very least, a wide slice into the studio’s bottom lie at worst.

Anyone can shoot, download and present a porn movie these days. For as many real studios producing high quality movies there are just as many hastily made downloads featuring amateurs. And though we all hope cream rises to the top, this is porn…no matter what the cream is made of people will want to see it!

Then to there is the question of what all this free content does to the business of porn.

Studios are scrambling to make profits when they know their audience can view clips and whole films-even if those films are of a lesser quality-for free. Pornographers worry if, in the end, the price for content-namely if it is free-will far outweigh the quality of content. Even if what they present is better in production value, featuring popular contract players in exotic settings will an audience care if they can simply scroll across any website and download their dirty movies for free?