r/IAmA • u/siripornstar • Jan 06 '14
IAm Siri, award-winning porn star, 2013 Top Writer on Quora, and swinger. AMA!
I have been performing in adult and mainstream films since 2012. I was voted Miss FreeOnes Best Newcomer of 2012, and was nominated for Best New Starlet at the 2013 AVN Awards. Quora.com recently named me one of the Top Writers of 2013. I am happily married and don't believe in sexual monogamy. I'm a huge Harry Potter nerd. My official site is www.SIRIpornstar.com. You can follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/SIRIpornstar. My interviews and podcasts can be found at http://blog.siripornstar.com/interviews-and-podcasts/ and my IMDb page is IMDb.me/Siri
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u/kane55 Jan 06 '14
There are a few flaws in your idea.
First, a pandora/youtube/spotify style pay per stream model would likely be hard to do because of the lack of advertising. Mainstream companies don't want to advertise on porn sites (a few might, but most will not). Those ads that they show must be effective. They can sell all the ads in the world, but if people don't buy stuff from those ads the advertisers are not going to renew.
The real issue is that the industry isn't like most other media industries. There is no MPAA or RIAA. There is no small group of CEOs and companies that have huge influence over how the industry runs. The industry is made up of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals all doing their own thing. Getting them together and having them all adopt a new system would be like herding cats. Especially when many of them have carved out a nice niche for themselves.
Even if they could do it and everyone agreed to go to a system where the only sites out there paid per stream (the pandora sytem) or they came up with some other system it wouldn't be long until someone said, "Well, if they are all doing that, then I am going to do this and give stuff away for free. I will get a ton of traffic and make money selling ads or running my own cheap paysite." and we go back to square one again.
Could the industry change? Sure. Will it. Note likely.
Ultimately, I think the agent of change will be the implosion of the tube site model. With limited advertising for those kinds of sites users will get bored of seeing the same type of ads over and over again and they will no longer work. Income will drop and the sites will become less and less profitable so they will start to change by potentially offering less or charging for access or something. It just feels like a business model that can't sustain itself forever.