Another article about camming "A Peep Inside Of Camming"
Saw this posted on twitter so I thought I'd post it here.
A peep inside the camming business
Cam girls have been performing live sex shows since the advent of Internet-connected cameras.
But thanks to new technology and beefed-up bandwidth, the camming profession is experiencing a renaissance.
While online porn has suffered in the past few years from the “proliferation of free porn on the Internet,” adult business attorney Michael Fattorosi told the Daily Dot, camming has only become more popular for one reason: “live interaction."
While porn sites take a product previously available offline and put it online, cam girls offer a service that's only become possible because of the Internet.
“Getting a live show with your favorite porn star is like sitting down with your favorite actor or musician,” said Fattorosi, who offers legal advice to cam girls, porn stars, and camming studios, and is also engaged to marry a cam girl himself.
Tens of thousands of women around the world currently work as cam girls -- also called "models" in the industry, Fattorosi said. The profession began to climb in popularity three or four years ago and is still gaining steam.
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Livejasmin.com, a popular cam-girl site, is one of the top 40 most trafficked sites with nearly 28 million visitors a month, according to Web-measurement service Compete.com.Myfreecams.com and ImLive.com are in the top 800. Other cam sites don’t fall too far behind.
With Web traffic like this, it’s no wonder cam girls are eager to cash in. They can make a pretty good living by performing live in front of a camera out of their own homes.
Fattorosi’s fiance, Vanessa Blue, brings in some $500 to $1,000 a day just by camming.
While not everyone makes that kind of money (Blue is also a porn star), exceptional cam girls can bring in $50,000 to $60,000 a month, he said.
The cam girls that the Daily Dot interviewed make anywhere from $300 to $1,000 on a good night, although some evenings, they might net a paltry $10. But most make enough to pay their bills with camming.
“Incomes seem to vary dramatically,” said Kayla, an AdultWork.com model. "How much someone makes seems to depend on their look, their strategy, the sites they work, and how often they work,” she said.
“Successful cam girls do tend to be attractive, but being attractive alone isn't enough. You need to be engaging and you need to be smart about business.”
The women themselves are not the only ones who stand to make big money. Like actors, musicians and other performers, the cam girls usually only get a piece of the action.
The more players there are involved, the smaller the cam girl’s piece of the pie. The site for which the cam girl works takes a cut. An affiliate marketer, who drives traffic to the site, can get a piece of the action. And when cam girls work out of studios that provide them with a webcam and a workspace, those studios, of course, take another cut.
Still, the performers are left with a sizable income if they’re doing well.
Despite all the moving parts in the business, there’s perhaps surprisingly little legal action between cam girls and cam studios or sites, Fattorosi said.
If the cam girls don't get paid, they either move on or work independently, said Fattorosi, who lives in the San Fernando Valley, a hub of porn production.
“One thing about camming is that it allows a girl to understand the adult business very quickly,” he said.“If she was supposed to be paid $300 and wasn’t, she’ll just chalk it up to a lesson learned and go cam on another site."
Pay isn’t the only issue when it comes to sites. Ownership of material also is.
He and others warned women in the camming industry to always read the fine print.
“Most women don’t realize that when they sign papers to cam on a site, they are giving the site the rights to everything,” Fattorosi said. “The site can record their videos and use them for promotion and DVDs. They may come in and complain when their videos show up on other sites, but they signed the papers in the first place.”
Ownership is only one legal issue.
The profession itself lies in a legal gray area.
Fattorosi doesn’t know of cases where individual cam girls were busted while working from their own homes. But four years ago in Miami a studio for cam boys was charged with being in a residential area.
And given the popularity of camming and new technology on the horizon, legal issues may be on the horizon as well. Fattorosi believes that in the next five years, camming will start to get noticed in court. New technology, like a device that allows a cam girl to digitally masturbate a client, may allow cam girls to be prosecuted as prostitutes.
“Whatever she does will register on his side of the cam. She will literally be masturbating him through the device. We’ll have legal issues trying to figure out if it’s still prostitution even if she’s not in the same room.”
Camming is bigger and more profitable than ever, but Fattorosi says that it is certainly not for everyone.
“If you don’t want people to know what you do, don’t do it naked on the Internet. Yes, camming is lucrative, interesting and fun, but there is a downside -- you’ll be seen by lots and lots of people.”
Still, he points out that mainstream media might borrow a page from camming.
“Why hasn’t Bono done a paid cam show? You could pay ten bucks to be online with him and have him answer questions for you in real time. How much money could he raise for charity?”
http://www.dailydot.com/business/cam...oney-business/
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i like this one alot better. it delved into the more truer nature of the business but like every single article about camming always uses livejasmin as the top site LOL!
i give this one two thumbs up :)
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finally an article that I like!
Finallly!!
gets to show you that being this person;s fiancee is a camgirl, he understands!
not like that assh** who was just giving his opinion..that gizmodo guy
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I like the article.....
we were not painted as victims but as smart people who are running a biz
But WTF is up with the photo chose to use: Really a the girls look like she is 12 with money over her eyes.....I thought there was going to be something a about kids in there because of the photo
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OMG...she does look like a child!
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“Whatever she does will register on his side of the cam. She will literally be masturbating him through the device. We’ll have legal issues trying to figure out if it’s still prostitution even if she’s not in the same room.”
This part is silly though. Personally, I see it as a form of prostitution, of course without the actual touching. Would I do it? No. Do I care if others do it? Nope. On a legal level I doubt it could ever be seen as prostitution. I doubt anyone would ever be convicted for using a realtouch device. If the issue were to be brought up about the legality, then the owners, the girl, and the client would have to face charges, seems like a waste to go after something as miniscule as this.
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And given the popularity of camming and new technology on the horizon, legal issues may be on the horizon as well. Fattorosi believes that in the next five years, camming will start to get noticed in court. New technology, like a device that allows a cam girl to digitally masturbate a client, may allow cam girls to be prosecuted as prostitutes.
“Whatever she does will register on his side of the cam. She will literally be masturbating him through the device. We’ll have legal issues trying to figure out if it’s still prostitution even if she’s not in the same room.”
Teledildonics --- claimed since the 1980s to be the "next big thing" in cybersex technology but yet will never truly exist until someone who has the power to make and change laws finds their son being jerked off in his bedroom by one. Tee hee. ;D
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justsometwat
This part is silly though. Personally, I see it as a form of prostitution, of course without the actual touching. Would I do it? No. Do I care if others do it? Nope. On a legal level I doubt it could ever be seen as prostitution. I doubt anyone would ever be convicted for using a realtouch device. If the issue were to be brought up about the legality, then the owners, the girl, and the client would have to face charges, seems like a waste to go after something as miniscule as this.
Since prostitution is usually defined by law as 'solicitation for the purposes of sex', believe it or not the wording of the law is actually loose enough that someone would actually have a case if they had a shit ton of money to spend on lawyers. Reality can have very little to do with what one goes to court over.
Law is all about the loopholes, afterall.*
*Disclaimer: My opinion, not definition.
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Decent article - but again, I feel like the earnings are misrepresented....$50,000 - 60,000 a MONTH???? I doubt that any but maybe the top 1% make that....and even then, I seriously doubt it.
They get it a little more accurate with $300-1000 a day, but I still wouldn't consider that the average these days....Maybe $100-1000 would be a little better!!
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I think this one is about SW.....? It's kinda old...
http://www.dailydot.com/society/cam-...y-sex-workers/
"Cam girls share their secrets (with each other)"
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Too bad that link to Top 40 Trafficked sites is broken. Great article!
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oh thank the cam gods i thought this was recent!
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I don't even remember posting this lmao.
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Vice have been posting a lot lately; it's really irritating me lol.