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Adult Entertainment Antes Up In DRM War

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

At the recent adult entertainment awards, host Greg Fitzsimmons highlighted the deep relationship between the internet and pornography stating "'The Internet was completely funded by porn,' he said [...] And if it wasn't for the Internet, he added, 'you guys would be completely out of business.' The audience, packed with porn actors and adult entertainment moguls like Jenna Jameson and Larry Flynt, roared with laughter." Now it appears that the adult entertainment industry has chosen to ante up in the DRM battle as well. Some companies have chosen to take sides, like Digital Playground who will be supporting Sony's Blu-Ray. Others, like Vivid Entertainment, seem to think that the answer is diversity and will be supporting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

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  1. Re:Power of porn? by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think a lot of support for the the theory comes from the rankings of search terms. Since most of the top search terms revolve around pornography, it follows that a lot of people out there are trying to find it. That plus the pornographic sites were making large profits years before Amazon turned the corner.

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  2. Re:What! by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Ironically this is what will get joe sixpack interested in DRM.
    You see, joe doesn't want jane to know about the digital stash, but if the DRM forces him "out of the closet" so to speak he will be quite upset (as well as possibly single).

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  3. Re:Huh, that's surprising. What about p2p and porn by NeutronCowboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think that on the contrary, it proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is no need for DRM for the content industry to flourish. Porn has got to be the most ripped content there is. And yet, it is raking in profits that make every other industry green with envy. So when traditional media companies say that they need DRM because of the Internet... I say shove it.

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