Internet Piracy and Porn

[Dys]

The potential loss of porn producers is far, far greater than that of video game, music or film producers, yet they ***** about it the least, in fact, not only do they not ***** about it, they also don't commit to only producing 'safe' products with minimal investment the same way as the other industries do (seriously, you wouldn't believe how much technology gets adopted because of the porn industry).

Ultimately, it's because porn producers are forced to live in the real world. There is no government support which makes it hard to litigate things, there are not really internationally famous porn stars complaining about piracy and, above all of that, it's a fiercely competitive industry so there's no room for DRM and the other poor decisons other companies make. They are forced to act in an economically sensible way, and complaining about or wasting time trying to recover sunk costs is not economically viable.

 

[Bobbity]

Yet we rarely (if ever) hear about how the rampant pirating of porn could be/is damaging that industry. Every once in a blue moon I may hear about a porn studio taking legal action against illegal downloaders, but there doesn't seem to be nearly the same polarizing debate about if it's right or not like with games, music, or movies.

Probably because serious analysts can't talk about the state of the porn industry without giggling
To try and be serious though, this never occurred to me. Again, because it's just not something people generally discuss...

 

[Soviet Steve]

I doubt the porn industry will die out, regardless of how it is treated. It isn't like you require a large budget to produce them.

 

[Lionsfan]

A lot of porn sites have started submitting parts of their videos to those sites (so some must be friendly with them, I guess), and give a link in the video to the full thing you have to pay for. For some reason, they always submit clips that it's long enough for the average male to fap to.

I know this through...uh...extensive research in the field.

Well I have no idea what you're talking about...ok bullshitting aside I know what you're talking about. But I'm talking about the people who run the porn studios, like the guys who make the DVD's. They probably don't like the free websites. With the pay-websites I guess they're just trying to get their product out there and hope someone is interested enough to buy a subscription to their site. And I'm guessing it's the personal aspect of the paysite, the whole I'm seeing something that most people aren't etc etc. An even further layer of dirtyness (if that's possible)

Because fuck people who work in porn(like they haven't had enough of that M I RITE LOL). They deserve neither sympathy nor respect and are nothing more than glorified prostitutes and pimps. I'm not trying to take any higher moral ground here, but humanity will be a lot better off without stupid people gobbling chodes on camera.

How would humanity be better off without the adult industry? Just curious as to what added benefits we would get from it disappearing

 

[Misho-]

The thought of sailing up to a porn studio on a pirate ship and pillaging it for its porn makes me giggle.

lawl

U mean like this?

This made me laugh, thank you.

Also yeah I think people fight the piracy on all the levels, but for porn... Well, first of all, people don't usually admit looking at porn or even having knowledge of it in conversations other that their signifcant others and/or friends.

And also because in a way, Porn is Sex. And as long as Sex is something we humans crave and do, there will be a market for porn. Your parents might not buy a Wii to spice up their marriage, but sure as hell in these modern times they will rent a spicy raunchy movie of etiher Softcore (basically where you don't see the genitalia) or Hardcore sex(where you see everything) (Oversimplistic yeah I know).

So piracy won't affect that market as much. They (them pirates) will affect it. But not as much.

Besides any frat boy with a camera, a beer keg, and some chick friends thinks of himself something of a freelance director/producer who uploads his stuff in sites for free. I mean, you just need a good cellphone camera and away you go. It's not like the video game industry where you actually rip off a whole team work effort of months or years. But that's just my view.

 

[Plurralbles]

I though thte porn industry was hte main driver for anti piracy laws back in the day. I thought the music industry just took thier DRM schemes... I could be wrong but hey, the porn industry makes quite a few innovations nobody gives them credit for.