Dealing With Copyright Online: Porn v. Music

zzled writes "The New York Times (registration required, etc.) has an article on the porn industry's take on filesharing / copyright infringement. 'Many companies that distribute X-rated material say they do not worry too much about consumers sharing among themselves; they often unleash their lawyers only when someone is trying to profit by copying their goods and trying to sell them.' ... The article isn't particularly brilliant or insightful, but was an interesting read, especially with the explicit comparison to the approach taken by the music and movie industries."

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Proposal: make porn uncopyrightable

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's an interesting compromise proposal between the "big government" people and the libertarians.

Eliminate or reduce the copyright incentive for material that the government is trying to discourage. Of course, there are lots of first amendment issues in how such a policy could legally implemented in the US, but I expect criteria used for defining "pornography" would probably be found constitutional (although I'm not a lawyer).

The result would probably not be a decrease in availability of pornography, but a great reduction in the money available to "vicitimize" people by encouring them to make new porn or whatever other new content the government wants to discourage.

For "smaller government" people like me, I'd be happy just because I think any reduction in copyright restrictions is progress.