Judging by the fact that new releases still end up on streaming sites, it's either that there are still sources that don't have such extreme DRM or the industry itself is interested in some leakage going on. Maybe they are still able to come into profit if enough people are lured in by the streaming sites to get the same content but in HD, without watermarks etc. Then again, for anything really fun (like editing or loopers, in my case), offline availability as a standalone file is a must
(A conspiracy theory ahead. Also, the more degenerate parts are blurred for your safety)
And there is still a lot of content not available on streaming sites that you just will have to buy to access. So, it might be like a funnel system/gateway drugs:
- Get some feel of JAV via free content on streaming sites, in clips etc.
- Get lured in to get your favorite content in HD, without watermarks etc.
- Get even more lured in to get stuff that is not available for free
- Get hooked and become one of the "whales" that get the JAV studios most of their profit
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- Get to go to Japan to pay to go to JAV idol events to be able to stand in line with hundreds of creeps like you for several hours to be able to hold the hand of a "JAV goddess" that hundreds of guys face-fucked and got cum on, the hand that has jerked off hundreds more guys before and maybe has some residue of cum of a couple of her chosen fuck-buddies that she has jerked off just today that she doesn't tell her fans about of course... etc. etc.*
There are some quality events though when you're able to touch the girls' breasts. There was at least one such thing, a charity, as far as I remember
* The usual "why don't you want to kiss me for some time after I sucked you off — and still you're OK to kiss me at all even though I've sucked other guys before you at some point in my life?" kind of thing; the "cum breath" kind of thing etc. If you really keep that in your head all the time, you'll go mad, of course. As a certain comedian once said, all of us have had cum on our hands at some point in our lives, for men it's their own, for women, it's other men's, and even technically virgin women might have had cum on them for lots of reasons... Basically, this kind of thinking, if really honestly carried through, might lead you to not touching anyone ever at all... well, apart from yourself and a really small portion of the girl population: virgin girls that have never had cum on them and those girls that have only been with you, and you will have to know that, etc. etc. A very special kind of an OCD hell. And even if you're a bit more relaxed on this, it might still be hell because — how long after a girl has had another guy's cum on her lips, for example, until it's "OK" to kiss her etc. etc. Just writing about it I feel like I'm getting dumber with every word I type