Is the current porn profit model sustainable long term?

[DrakeM]

I just don't get it. The porn industry pumps out millions (has to be millions) of free pictures and videos every year and dangles them as samples to entice people into paying for more. On top of that there are tons of sites where finding pirated versions of the "pay" content is trivial. Even if we ignore piracy (which we shouldn't), there is so much free stuff already, I don't understand how this model can continue. This entire board is based on the non-pirated free content and has more than enough porn for me. Is the pay stuff so amazing that I should be paying for it? I doubt it, but then again I've got a 35+ year history of being a porn consumer and have an impressive collection that will continue to exist even if porn is wiped from the internet by Chinese censorship someday.

I'd love to hear from content owners on this board for their thoughts on this topic but everyone, please discuss.