The porn industry is struggling right now, and a part of that is due to illegal pirating I will admit, but I also feel that it's just become a real convenient scapegoat for them. One they frankly don't even deserve to use because it's too convenient of an out for them. With most of the industries troubles they have nobody to blame but themselves. Quite frankly the porn produced now sucks. There is no other way to say it. Everything from the pornstars, the quality of the movies, the way they portray the people on screen, and how they treat the people in the industry is horrible. I can barely even find anything I would want to watch. They couldn't even give it to me for free.
Then there is the stuff like every chimp in the industry that could operate a camera tried producing their own stuff, in the early 00s, it flooded the industry with crap, and basically what should of happened from that poor business model ended up happening and now they are paying for it. Then you have to add in the producers that seemed to always want to one up each other in stupidity and tried for ever ridiculous circus acts. Not only did it make a joke of the industry, but eventually that ran into a pretty big problem also. They ran out of further nastiness. They had nowhere else to go and they became exposed for what they were and were found wanting. Porn in the past might have had some ridiculous plots, but nobody took them seriously back than and people took them for what they were and had fun with them. They didn't make a joke out of sex though, and the stuff they actually produced was (gasp) actually erotic and maybe even sensual. Most people in the industry today should be ashamed for what they let it turn into. (If they are actually capable of feeling it which most of them aren't.) If I have the money I don't mind paying for fewer quality stuff, instead of the countless number of shit they now make.
The stars of today are also to blame. It's pretty sad when you have to list the people that don't escort, don't do drugs, and don't look like they're haggard or washed up because that list is so much smaller. Then again maybe if the industry tried even a little bit to be a place where the lives of the people that work in it aren't constantly destroyed and tried to be a place where it took care of each other things like that wouldn't happen.
Finally, the economy is just bad in general. Even previous recession proof industries like video games are getting hit hard with it. This time porn is hit with it like everybody else, and that is also a big part of it. That's the economic reality right now.
In any case if any producer in porn or any big name in it just starts spouting off about illegal sharing as why the industry is going down without talking about all the other even more important reasons you can know they are full of crap. They decided to be part of an industry that's destroying itself and they don't want to admit it. If anything it will be good if a lot of them fail and go out of the industry. It will separate a lot of the cancer in it and allow the cream to rise to the top. What the industry really needs is to get back to where top performers are treated and promoted as stars, to create an environment where the top people want to stay in it for more than 6 months rather than as a quick money grab before they don't care anymore or the industry turns them off so much that they leave. The industry needs to learn it's better to cooperate to create the best stuff they can, and not turn mercenary, and be every man for themselves to get more money when the consequences are they are destroying the very thing that keeps them in business. The industry needs to start creating product that is actually good like it used to. The industry needs to get rid of all the scumbags in it and start operating like a legitimate, decent, professionally run place where the hottest women actually want to come in in and work, where everybody looks out for each other, and where people have a chance to be successful.
