Re: Indian censorship of porn now stupider
Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:36:11 -0700
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Quality vs quantity I guess - and for quality in quantity hard up desis generally go get all the professionally produced stuff off BitTorrent - with no copyright / dmca issues plaguing them outside the USA In fact there have been economic studies on the downturn in the professional porn industry due to the proliferation of amateur porn clips - both consensual and non consensual --srs > On 06-Aug-2015, at 4:25 PM, Atanu Dey <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: >> You will find that - on the other hand - Indians are major consumers of FREE porn, and are quite loath to pull out credit cards and pay for something, so it’d turn up in a statement that their wife or boss can see. >> >> Of course the free sites get their money’s worth of our horny brethren by overloading them with popup ads, driveway downloads of shady adware etc etc. > > Actually, the social media sites such as tumblr, blogspot and soup are really ad free. Porn on them is virtually infinite in supply and really free -- as in free beer. What puzzles me is why people pay for porn when it is available free. As an economist I find a nice puzzle: differential prices in what should be an integrated market. Price differentiation of course can be explained by imperfect information. Go figure. > > Atanu _______________________________________________ India-gii mailing list India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii