I don't understand what your jab at my signup date means. But I've been in adult since 2005, have managed multiple adult programs and was one of the people that built Crakrevenue. I talk using facts taken from experience. The porn upload method can work for beer money, but as soon as you try to scale, you'll encounter all the same barriers that stop everyone else. The only workaround is to put a really good twist on things or have one helluva smart automation system.
Also, partner programs are for original content creators, not porn re-uploaders.
Nope you fully misunderstood me, and those that help run programs aren't always that clued into what's possible and what isn't, been doing this myself years too. Specifically, if you re-upload you aren't just going to earn beer money, provided you do it correctly. Not necessarily a new twist but do so in a manner that your videos stick across all tube sites.
Granted, I'm assuming you're directing it at the many who do it wrong, spam accounts, have no forward thinking and generally get accounts banned or don't best use the traffic they do get properly (send them to CPA smartlinks). They don't match up the niche, they don't send to revshare programs or their own, and look for a quick buck.
What I meant is that the porn re-upload method in its essence isn't dead (watermarking, it does drive traffic, does it not?). I also referenced content partners in the sense that they become content partners for the rights to take up real estate on the pages they occupy on tube sites, much like you try as a porn re-uploader as much as possible by watermarking, plugging it in the title and description if possible (plus intro/outro's) to take up some real estate yourself. Meaning, if it didn't work to drive traffic they wouldn't be doing it.
Now, if you mean porn re-uploading the way Adrian specifically explains it is much harder to do and scale nowadays, then sure I agree, but not impossible either.
But, again if we strip it down to its most basic form:
Upload porn > watermark (title/description if possible) > traffic goes to said address > $$$. It works. The issue comes if you get accounts banned and lose videos or don't use the traffic to profit long term from it.
Do you not agree?