Kink.com No Longer Sells Dirty Pictures
Update on the below: It took them many many months, but Kink.com eventually restored access to some of the old still photos to its product offering. New shoots going forward, however, should no longer be expected to offer still photos for paid members beyond the small free/promo set.
Bondage Blog on Monday reported in detail on the removal of still photography from all of Kink.com’s paid/subscription product offerings. The Kink.com library of BDSM and fetish stills, which dated back to 1998 and was advertised as containing “over two million photos”, was apparently removed from sale because the Kink.com people “have only been able to isolate a small portion of our members who use or appreciate them” and because of “complicated” but otherwise undisclosed technical issues associated with Kink.com’s recent consolidation of its numerous porn sites and domains into areas (now called “channels”) at the Kink.com URL.
The company continues to offer a handful of still photos for free to the public on the landing pages of its individual shoots. Those are the same pictures that used to be offered for free as part of the galleries used in promoting the various Kink.com sites. What’s changed is that paying members formerly would have found somewhere between 50 and 400 additional still photos in the member area for each shoot; those are now entirely gone, and are no longer available anywhere to anyone. Paying members now get video, period.
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Oh… The humanity!!!
I know, right?
Well, the pictures on this (and almost every porn site) have pretty much only existed for those free landing pages and the turnover they generate for almost two decades now…
I think you’ll find that’s not the case; if it were, why would there be 9 pictures inside the paysite for every one outside on the landing pages generating turnover?
It may be changing now, but I don’t think you can fairly dispute that still porn photos have been a commercial product — the thing that generates sales — for decades.
Example: Kink.com’s first website (hogtied.com) didn’t have video at first, and then for years it just had a few short (2-ish minutes) clips per shoot. It was predominantly a still-photos product for years.
Someone should have started a “fund me” campaign to archive this material. I can’t believe that some people are so short-sighted about its priceless value.
No way to do it legally — it’s all their copyrighted IP.
Now, if a merry band of pirates were to scour the torrent sites and archive as much of it as possible, that would surely be a mitzvah, albeit an illegal one that I couldn’t possibly suggest to any of my law-abiding visitors.
As a very thin silver lining, I guess future videos will no longer be interrupted by distracting shutter noises?
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