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It's basic freemium. They own the tubes and the content producers. Give away a lot for free, offer premium stuff. It's not illegally uploaded, MG owns most of
by huffmsa 7y ago
It's basic freemium. They own the tubes and the content producers. Give away a lot for free, offer premium stuff.
It's not illegally uploaded, MG owns most of the underlying copyright, and they do revenue share with others.
People pay.
- pests 7y agoExactly. Porn has always led some form of tech innovation. PornHub now offers purchasable videos now competing with manyvids who owned the space before. There is also a premium subscription ala Twitch with monthly recurring. Live, a chaturbate competitor, with tokes and everything. Really they are a huge industry powerhouse with a large marketing and PR department. They are also pretty good with tech. It reminds me of how Netflix or Facebook stumbled into being a top tier tech company just due to business needs.
- Anthony-G 7y agoOver a decade ago, I recall the studios that produce feature films for DVD or other high quality productions complaining that MindGeek (they had a different name back then) were either turning a blind eye to or very slow to react to DMCA notifications submitted by these studios. Over time, MG were able to buy out many of their former competitors so now they do own the copyright for a lot of the content uploaded to tube sites.