The Porn Pay-Per-View Network

While Payperview porn has long been established as a standard format in hotels, due to business models reaching back to the legacy of VHS and BetaMAX video tapes, home viewing of adult content has largely been confined to DVD sales and Internet downloads. These distribution models usually require customers to buy adult titles outright, rather than allow them to pay per porn movie they watch either as they watch it. When you consider that most DVDs retail for between $15-$25 per title and are of little interest after they have been watched even just one time, the prospect of being able to pay a reasonable fee to simply watch a movie provides a more affordable means of accessing adult content for the average viewer.

Now that high-speed Internet is available in most homes across the country, payperview porn distribution models are making a comeback, as the fickle online adult community seems to be willing to pay smaller amounts to see just the porn they’re interested in, and do not necessarily need to own the content outright. Why buy something you’re only going to watch once when you can pay a fraction of the purchase price to see the same content, and only pay per porn title you actually watch?

With payperview porn becoming more widely adopted by adult content distributors who are concerned about the illegal copying and re-distribution of their privileged content, it is expected that the pay per porn model will become an expanding keystone of the industry, as it has since the early days of hotel porn.

There was a time not long ago when the term ‘Payperview Porn’ only applied to travelers staying in hotels that offered a selection of adult videos to customers who want to enjoy a little adult entertainment while traveling. Basic infrastructure and technology issues made the ability to stream or limit the viewing time of adult content very difficult, and the adult industry had no reason to worry about the loss of business experienced as a result of today’s technologies that allow users to illegally share and distribute content through file-sharing services that cut production houses out of any transaction.

In some ways, Payperview porn has emerged at a critical time for the adult industry, as it struggles to compete with free amateur-driven content venues such as YouPorn, which allows anyone to make their own home-made pornos and share them online for free. The pay per view format gives audiences the ability to watch the latest studio releases without having to shell out $25 for a full-length DVD they may not watch in its entirely (who watches 2 hours of porn straight through?). And I gives production houses the assurance that their content will only be accessible to those who have paid for it.

Payperview porn reflects the industry shift toward limiting the duration of access granted to consumers who watch porn, and is likewise demonstrated in video on demand business models. As technology allows for greater control over the distribution and access to media files, expect to see these models replace the ‘download-to-own’ and DVD sales-based business models.