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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."
Sharing porn? Just as long as the pages don't stick together.....
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I present to you, exhibit "XXX", a copy of Pocerhontis.
Pirates: - Those who would have payed if no crack was avaliable - (a) - Those who won't pay, but heard of it through piracy - (b) - "Try before you buy" who then buy - (c) - "Try before you buy" who decide it's not worth it - (d) - collectors who pirate, but don't use - (e)
Pretty good analysis, but once you got to (c) you exceeded the attention span of the average consumer and music industry executive.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
So you're saying porn guys are better at math than RIAA guys? Is that the naked truth? This is indeed revealing. Thanks, you bare the facts so well. I guess there is no point in trying to clothe these figures.
The law of excluded middle : Either I'm foo or I'm foobar
Music labels should learn from the porn industry and start spamming everyone's e-mail inboxes with free music.
Um, does the porn industry have any "premium content?"
I can listen to a song more than once.
So, in other words, this is where SCO got the idea for their business model.
I think the real lesson that the MPAA and RIAA should take from the Porn Industry is to replicate their highly marketable content...
;)
Oh, yeah. Too late.
"What do you think?" "I think 'What, do you think?!'"
Why can't the movie and music industries act as ethically as the porno industry!?!
I stole this Sig
Now you're making me feel bad, because as soon as I saw (a) through (e), I scrolled down to see how long the comment was...
Damn.
What's their take on sharing of porno music? :-)
"corruption of minds" market,
Corruption of minds? You obviously haven't seen some of the porn I've seen. More like comedy, with the wooden acting and unbelievable plots.
If it's not an "honest job or enterprise", how does it make money? Obviously, there's a demand, and they fill it..... (ba-dum-dum!)
Karnal
I would expect that the porn industry would have a much more difficult time if they did want to take the same stance as the music business. Can you imagine US politicians standing up and proudly supporting them in the same way as they do for the music distributors?
There's also the small matter of economics. The porn producers could spend $50,000 prosecuting one of thier consumers, or they could spend that amount to make five new movies.
Yikes, I've just been modded insightful. Mum, if you're reading this, I want to tell you I don't have any special insight into the porn business. Really, I promise.
I can listen to a song more than once.
Who the fuck listens to pr0n?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
Doesn't look that way to me... rather it looks like music is becoming porn. Apart from the obvious recent incident with Janet Jackson, we get the ever so slutty Christina Aguilera, and the increasingly less innocent Britney Spears. Perhaps the singers are just trying to get a foot in both markets ;-)
I was busted a few months ago for downloading porn. The scary thing was I had only downloaded a few megabytes worth over the course of a few hours! My cable modem was shut off and I was sent a registered letter. I was able to settle out of court for $75. How embarrassing! Getting busted by the porn industry was the last thing on my mind! So, just to let you know, some porn companies are getting serious about copyright infringement.
The good thing however is I ordered a premium cable package where they uncapped my modem. When the cable company reactivated my account, my cable modem was still uncapped but I am paying for the basic cable price! That $75 will have paid itself off in 2 months!
Isn't that a bit of a narrow niche?
That Jesus Christ guy is getting some terrible lag... it took him 3 days to respawn! -NJ CoolBreeze
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer wouldn't let go of the candy bar in the vending machine until they were ready to cut his arm off.
5 movies for $50,000?! I thought I was going overboard with $25, a bottle of vodka, and a cheap old camcorder.
Me too!
now, what was he talking about?
its on the tip of my tongue... that word for when someone is tricked into believing in something and paying money to see it, but its all a setup. Like P.T.Barnum or 'Ripleys believe it or not'.
:-/
The acts performed in a lot of porno are not necessarily acts which it is a great pleasure to perform.
They are not intended to feel good for the participants (who get paid to do it); they are intended to make money. Sex is essentially a tactile thing, not primarily visual.
To make money it has to look good. We don't have 'feelies' yet.
The sort of sex act that feels good may well not look good on camera. Duh.
What happens if its presented in such a way that a *LOT* of people wind up thinking that this is what sex really is?
Unwittingly, they join the Voluntary Human Extinction Project since these 'sex acts' are almost always non-reproductive; semen is usually deposited on some external surface. Think of it as a 'Catholic' guide to birth control.
Pro-wrestling is similar. Except with less bodily fluids. How many pro wrestling fans draw on what they see in 'the ring' as a benchmark for their internal model of physics? Their estimate of what happens to a person when a chair is broken across their back, for example? Maybe people arn't that dumb.
However, in both cases, I think theres an underlying dishonesty.
I could have got human stupidity all wrong, of course.
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
The Porn Industry Association of America. They can even do ads like the MPAA did:
"When you pirate porn, your not just hurting the Jenna Jamesons, you hurting the fluffers, the camermen, the spooge moppers......"
If the music industry has its way, with the help of the porn industry, we will soon find that royalty-police will go after those who moans and shouts during orgasms.
Moans like "deeper!" "harder!" "aaaaahhhh!" "Ooooooooh!" and even those slurpy sounds will soon be copyrighted nobody have the right to maon anymore unless you pay RIAA in advance !
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
Well, shit. As soon as I saw an equation, I skipped the whole thing and scrolled down to read the +5 funny comments :(
Funny things make me laugh!
It just goes to show. When you put porn and music together, bow chicka-bow-bow...
I want to wake up in the morning to find my mailbox up to 25 gigs with trailers for new Hollywood movies!
dad? is that you? i just wanted to tell you i found your porn stash.
- son
You have a problem.
No I don't. I still have over 22 GB free.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
milfhunter is another fake "real" site. or at least i recognise some of the women from porn flicks elsewhere.
Pump n Dump has a different meaning in the porn biz. :)
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