^^^Hmm…
…the porn industry has as much chance of declining as the black market.
Porn production is down 50% over a year ago according to industry lawyer pornlaw (who posts here). Ask the girls who are having trouble finding enough work to make a living of it. Many of them have gone back to other day jobs. Ask the porn fans who are asking why their favorite doesn't have any new work lately.
Several directors have gone on record that we're going to see a major falling out among porn companies in the next 2-5 years. Directors including Ivan at Anabolic have had to look for additional opportunities to make money because "not much is going on" at Anabolic.
Brazzers introduced "Brazzers Vault" to provide new material to their subscribers without investing more in production. Vault let subscribers view scenes previously deemed too poor to show their subscribers.
Naughty America recently tried providing strictly re-encoded scenes to their subscribers. It didn't work and after a short subscriber revolt they are back to providing new material.
Porn to me isn't the amateur shit with Bobby running out to buy a videocamera at Best Buy. Filming himself fucking his ugly girlfriend in the dark so he can put it on the web doesn't interest me.
The productions you see from companies like Brazzers, Digital Playground, Jules Jordan, Wicked, Anabolic and others cost a helluva lot more than I think some of you realize. Without someone paying for it they won't continue to exist. It's already started.
Credit to FreeOnes for supporting the industry rather than becoming another theft site. Huge credit to the moderators here. I wouldn't want to do it.