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Porn Industry Trials Burnable DVDs
nukular writes "The LA Times has an article discussing porn giant Vivid following the likes of King Kong in allowing users to download and burn movies to DVD. Unlike in the Hollywood plan, these DVDs will be viewable on other DVD players." From the article: "Despite their obvious differences, adult and mainstream entertainment companies face similar pressures in the Internet age. Both are grappling with how to deliver content securely and reliably to devices in a variety of ways, whether it's prepackaged on DVD for TVs or sent wirelessly to cellphones. Both also want to capitalize on digital delivery methods but can't afford to undercut their retail partners: big-box stores such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. for the major studios and mom-and-pop video shops for the porn producers. They also fear online piracy, which the music industry partly blames for its lackluster sales."
* stops burning porn DVDs long enough to read /. *
Hey, wait...we're allowed to do this now? Sweet!
* resumes burning porn DVDs *
"You will pay for your lack of vision..." - Emperor Palpatine to Ray Charles
Why pay?
IMy friend was heavily into downloading porn. It's amazing how much free stuff is out there, judging by his massive collection.
It will be too soon for the industutry to get sued for community standards since they are responsible for standards at your location. If walmart sold pr0n dvds, however, they would be revered as cutting edge and it would be so successful that it would put all the pr0n mom and ,err, pop shops out of buisness.
Thank you play again.
In Catholic Italy, pr0n burns YOU! :)
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Verbing nouns weirds language.
If you're going to charge a comparable price for the downloadable movie, it can't be an inferior product to the purchased disc, or it just won't fly. Hence needs to be watchable on a regular DVD player like a purchased DVD. Still seems a bit steep compared to some, erm, other sources of pr0n though.
Oh no... it's the future.
This will change my life completely!
why i need a bigger tv
It burns, it burns!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
"Both are grappling with how to deliver content securely and reliably to devices in a variety of ways, whether it's prepackaged on DVD for TVs or sent wirelessly to cellphones"
Wow, that would explain my co-workers extended bathroom breaks with his new Verizon 3g phone.
-Rick
"Most people in the U.S. wouldn't know they live in a tyrannical state if it walked up and grabbed their junk." - MyFirs
Cinemanow owns and operates All Adult Entertainment the distributor of Vivid's Videos so Hollywood is already onto this and owns the technology to distribute burnable movies .They are using porn as their sacrificial lamb to see if the content ends up on Usenet or P2P networks in the next 3 months .
Cinemanow is a subsidiary of Sony Entertainment .
Could you download porn on the internet?!! I've just been taping my neighbors at night....
*scratches head*
People pay for pr0n?
I had no idea. Suckers.
Heck, adult entertainment has been behind a lot or major breakthroughs in technology:
I suspect this will continue on into the arena of full 3-D sensoround technology, whenever that become available.
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Marketing is going to be an interesting challenge. "Now your penis won't be the only thing burning ..."
One handed dvd burning must be supported, a kind of single sign on portal to subscribe/pay/burn/play so your god hand is not used to get the keys messy etc..
God Bless America!
You missed the credit to Bill Watterson (or even to calvin) with your quote.
I'm British and it's still "is a noun", sorry!
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They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
"Where's the hot lesbian action this file promised?"
Do you say "Microsoft aren't ever going to release Vista" or "Microsoft isn't ever going to release Vista"?
Fine grammar-nazi, how's this.
"Porn Industry Pulls Out Burnable DVDs"
Tries, damn it! Tries!
This joke
My head
They will never know the simple pleasure of a monkey knife fight
MAN those would be some hot DVDs...
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What's that old saying.. "no tech. can be considered a success until it's adopted by the porn industry".
If anyone can figure this out it's them.
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In our town, the local Applebees overlooks the local Castle Superstore. My wife and I enjoy watching the customers enter and exit the store while we eat dinner on Friday nights. Maybe those that don't go there just because of this will find this a viable alternative to potentially being seen renting or buying their porn at a retail location?
It burns, it burns!
Use lubricant?
Don't take the above poster too seriously. He doesn't.
The Adult Movie industry is suffering from the same problems as Hollywood, and yet again they're blaming it on piracy. The plot lines are boring. I've seen the one with the pizza delivery guy who gets his tip deposited directly. Or the gas station attendent who fills up everyone who pulls up.
It's not piracy that causes your old model of doing things to tank. Doing enormous budget special effects without a plot isn't what helps porn sell. Most consumers look for good acting with a believable plot. Modern porn movies have all been awesome 3-d eye shots and such.
And don't get me started on the theatre. Last time I was in the theatre the guy behind me kept moaning and the floor was all sticky. I'm not even sure what they put in my popcorn.
The sooner that the Adult Movie Industry realizes that quality plots are what makes a movie sell, the better off they'll be. Nobody is interested in the same old tit shot anymore.
heheh Porn Industy Pulls Out
You're really living up to your name BadAnalogyGuy. In English, you say "Microsoft aren't ever going to release Vista" because Microsoft, being a company, are regarded as a plural noun representing the people who, together, comprise the company. You still say '"trials" is a noun' because the word 'trials' is a singular noun. If you say 'trials are a noun' this means that the trials themselves are a noun, not that the word trials is a noun.
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Didn't the pr0n industry really get behind *ahem* DVD when it was introduced? I recall them being really big proponents of the "multiple angle" feature.
As long as people continue to post the original content to usenet, I guess I don't have a problem with this.
Your example uses "are" for a different reason.
.... but '"Trials" and "Wood" are nouns' uses are because there are now more than one noun.
... although most people I know over here (under 30s just) would probably say "isn't" rather than "aren't".
.... but I was crap ;)
' "Trials" is a noun' because "Trials" is a single word
In the Microsoft example company names are treated as plural nouns or some such
(I did do linguistics at uni
I have to say, if any industry is going to master digital delivery of movies first, it's going to be the porn industry. They have simply been on top of the technology game and they've made a killing at it. Whereas the RIAA and MPAA are out suing their customers, the porn industry in the past 15 years has seen incredible growth, largely due to the internet.
If the RIAA and MPAA are smart, they'll keep an eye on how the porn industry operates. But seeing as they've shown no signs of being smart, I doubt that will happen.
Verbing nouns weirds language - especially when there is an existing and appropriate verb form for the noun.
It's great that someone's doing this-- too bad it's Vivid, and not a company whose movies are actually worth burning to a DVD.
Yes, Vivid girls are gorgeous. The problem is, the Vivid's movies are terrible anymore. They have about as much replay value as Pitfall on the Atari 2600. Vivid relies on star power to move the product, and they don't worry about the video being awful.
They burned me so many times in the late 90's, that I no longer purchase their stuff no matter how much I like a given star. And they are still maintaining the low level of quality that drove me away-- I've downloaded quite a few of their recent movies via BT, and spent about 5 minutes skipping through each in search of a scene with some perceptible passion and/or heat-- there's just none to be found. They've all gotten promptly dropped into the Recycle Bin.
Considering the average pr0n title costs a lot less to make than say, King Kong, there is not so much financial risk(er, losses) involved.
So instead of the pr0n industry helping sway one side of widespread video adoption, it will now walk into the office like it's an expert to do some research.
To reward the actors and actresses of pr0n, those hard working people who put their asses on the line.
Often literally.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
Wouldn't that be context and opinion sensitive, depending on whether you referred to Microsoft as a corporation (singular business entity) or colloquially as 'the guys at Microsoft', which would be a plural group?
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Verb the adjective noun.
You forgot a few that go back a little further....
* Photographs
* Silent pictures
* Early animations
* Talking pictures (ie: movies with sound)
* The VCR - porn at home
* Chat rooms - talk to others about and trade porn
* The Web - find any porn you want, anytime
* DVDs - high quality porn
There. That's a little bit better list.
And the point, in case people miss it, is that porn has been on the leading edge of EVERY new media delivery mechanism.
And here I was downloading porn. From now on, I'll just go to Walmart.
Perhaps that what the music industry calls music is just crap that no one wants to buy. My car radio doesn't turn on much anymore because everything I hear sounds the same and isn't that good. When it comes to Rap/Hiphop stations, its all about screwing a bunch of different girls, cheating on your significant other or just about sex in general. The rock stations talk about something sappy, their crappy youth years or something off the wall and has no meaning, just a fun song. Country...ya, don't get me started there. I get angry just hearing country from a distance. And yes, I really do mean angry. Jazz, not my cup of tea, but I can listen to it. My wife likes jazz and I guess you can say I've grown tolerable of it. Classic rock is just getting repetitive. I mean, its classic and all, but I am sure there is a lot of other music from those bands that hasn't been ground into us from those bands. Come on people, play some different songs.
I am sure piracy has a bit to do with the lackluster music purchases, but not as much as they let on. I for one know exactly how to go out and download music illegally. Do I? No. I am too lazy. I hate getting a song that doesn't work, or is mis-titled or is hard to find. I just listen to the radio, you know, that free music that is broadcast for everyone to hear.
As for porn. Just watch TV, you get enough softcore porn out of it. Or go to Google Images and search for boobs or naked or something generic and you will get enough pictures to satisfy the normal person. If you are not normal, then I am sure you know plenty of free porn sites.
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No, Microsoft is A company. One. It is singular. "Microsoft ISN'T ever going to release Vista." The majority of English speakers realize this. Too bad you can't.
"Porn Industry Pulls Out Burnable DVDs"
I guess you could say they're sticking to what they know!
no?
Those executives really don't want to get caught with (ahem) egg on their face?
So will the drive eject the disk when it's finished?
*insert joke about repetitive stress injuries related to inserting and removing DVDs here*
All your porn are belong to us?
In soviet internet, porn burns you?
Ok I'm really coming up with nothing here lol It seems like there's a joke or two to be made here lol
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
It's probably not a good idea to go around sticking your disk into just any player that happens to be available, without protection. That's how viruses get spread. Be smart and wrap your disk in DRM.
And whoever told you that one says "'Trials' are a noun" in British English is just as ill-informed as you are. If you're going to be a Grammar Nazi, consider being correct every now and again.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Porn has always been the driving force behind new technology in entertainment. But this seems to just be more of the same. Granted, I'm glad they're getting more and more into this, working out the kinks (so to speak) so that mainstream movies may follow suit in the future.
But I'm waiting for there to be a way to hook into a machine like in the movie Brainstorm or The Matrix where all 5 senses are stimulated and it seems as your really THERE. Of course Dennis Miller said it best: "Folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lay in his Barc-a-lounger with a Fosters in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and fuck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's gonna make crack look like Sanka"
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It burns, it burns!
Got penicillin?
So according to TFA they're going to sell downloadable content that can be burnt to a regular DVD and hence played in a regular DVD player... but the resulting disc and content is going to be copy-protected?
I call bullshit.
GCHQ Quantum Insert installed. If only our tongues were made of glass, how much more careful we would be when we speak
I must have missed something. Exactly which aisle in Wal-Mart are the pr0ns kept? I'm pretty sure that even Super Wal-Mart (or whatever it's called) does not have a pr0n section.
Sure, lots of pr0n jokes, but not a single elaboration on the copy protection mechanism? Excuse my ignorance, but isn't the key area of DVDs unwritable either on typical DVDR media? So what form of copy protection is going to be used that will a) be burnable by a PC and b) be readable by a generic DVD player?
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
Am I alone in initially reading the headline and thinking that these were DVDs that could be quickly disposed of in fire? "Honey, the kink police are coming! Hurry, burn the DVDs."
I say "Microsoft" has 9 letters, not "Microsoft" have 9 letters.
We might say "trials are ongoing", but that's talking about some trials. '"Trials" is a noun' is talking about the word, not about some trials.
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You can't download anything nowadays over a P2P network without getting a full DVD quality porn.
Whether it's the latest Linux distro of your choice or Ice Age 2, you can almost guarentee that at least one of the results is just a misnamed full length porn.
There essentially trying to come up with a plan to sell ice to eskimos.
Definately an uphill battle.
Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong!
One may not think so, but on newsgroups, porn groups are among the most popular by far. The amount and variety of porn circulating on newsgroups is impressive to say the least, at least on commercial hosts you have to pay for (so all you youngins can't just use your ISP newsgroups most likely to get your porn fix). I can't even ponder how much it would have messed me up if I had access to this much porn as a kid....
In undeveloped countries, the consumer controls the market. In capitalist America, the market controls you.
In "The guys at Microsoft are ...," the subject of the sentence is "guys," not "Microsoft." The subject is plural, so you use the plural form of the verb. "...at Microsoft..." is a phrase that modifies the subject noun. It doesn't alter the verb form in any way.
The way current copy protection works on DVDs is actually quite simple. While the DVD is burning, bad sectors of data are written to the disc. Your computer attempts to read those bad sectors and freaks-out, thus preventing you from watching the DVD on your computer. Conventional DVD players just skip the bad sectors and continue reading from the disc. Burning the data to DVD would work exactly the same as it currently does, except you would actually be writing small bad sectors into the DVD, preventing you from copying that DVD. Therefore, the only protection needed would be some sort of DRM or encryption for the downloaded data so that users can only burn 1 DVD (using some sort of proprietary software, possibly), and can't send the download to others. Of course, you can/i? circumvent all of this by using transcode or analog video streaming... but most people aren't going to go through this trouble for their porn. The porn industry has been successful because they know people will pirate their products, but they aren't necessarily looking to collect the profit that is 'rightfully theirs', they're looking to make a certain amount or percentage of profit per video they film. If you make back even 10 times what you spent to film, what's the point of spending more money to squeeze another 5% profit out of the pirates?
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The porn industry has pushed the internet in both good and bad ways. They pushed up bandwidth, video quality, and computer speed.
I believe that porn is the biggest money maker on the Internet. One spammer that I sued, was making approximately $200k/week on 4 crappy porn sites.
Vivid is a spammer. I received spam from them and they are being sued. For more information you can go to http://www.myspamsuit.com/
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The people in a company do not constitute a single person, at least to those of us who live in countries where the corporations don't own the courts.
To save confusion, I say "Microsoft will never release Vista".
In the OSS spirit, I rolled up my sleeves and started googling around for a HOWTO make my own porn, but all I came up with was this HOWTO Put Porn On Your iPod!
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Wait wait wait just one minute here...We are having a legitimate deiscussion about porn and you guys want to steer the discussion towards grammar???
"But this one goes to 11!"
The porn industry has pushed the internet in both good and bad ways. They pushed up bandwidth, video quality, and computer speed.
So, porn has been better for the internet than frivilous lawsuits? Go figure.
I read this and the first thing to run through my mind was flammable DVDs. A few years back some DVD producers were making DVDs that would expire after a few days, effectively becoming rentals you don't have to return. I saw the headline and I was thinking that with these new DVDs, you could burn them once you had finished with them, perhaps as an attempt to dispose of any evidence.
Access it here.
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Talking about porn makes about as much sense as dancing about mathematics.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
In America, yes. But the British disagree. Considering they invented the language, it's at least worth listening to their opinion.
...and streaming content, and online credit card transactions...
Apparently you haven't heard of Contra dancing http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc97/6_14_97/ mathland.htm
"But this one goes to 11!"
Sounds like you need better antivirus protection.
/. If the government wants us to respect the law, it should set a better example.
Ha. I seriously thought they were trying to figure out a way to make disposable DVDs that you could burn to "hide the evidence" when I read that title.
Have any of the content industries tried trusting their customers?
Downloading and burning a DVD is going to be too big of a pain for lots of people. For it to work in most DVD players, it's gotta be MPEG2 which means downloads of several gigs per title. They could cut that down a lot w/ an MPEG4 variant, but then the customer will have to transcode to MPEG2 which can take hours . . . so from their perspective, no time saved.
Why not release the whole library for pay-per-minte streaming, and offer an option to download the title (DRM-free) for an extra fee? Customers get to browse pr0n to their heart's content, and can download and burn titles they especially like. The studios get more revenue because it's cheap and quick on the streaming side, and they'll probably curb a lot of piracy--why bother wading through usenet and p2p networks when you can preview and download whatever you want much more efficiently for reasonable rates?
God forbid someone downloads a DVD, burns it, gives a zillion copies to their friends, etc. Because . . . you know . . . I'm *sure* that *never* happens with rented porn DVDs already . . .
There has always been and always will be piracy. The best way to minimize it is to offer your consumers what they want, how they want it, and at prices that make for a better value and less effort than going out and getting it illegally.
Let us not forget that Internet download has discretion and timeliness on its side. Not many want to go down to the local porn store, risking their *** seeing their car in the lot, to thumb through porn--to inconvenient and public. Also, sexuality is driven by fleeting moments, so mailing for porn doesn't satisfy that need. This is all old news for Internet porn gurus... this just ups the quality and competes with subscription porn channels. Go porn.
They already know that the content will end up on Usenet and P2P almost imediately, just like their main-stream "non-burnable" content does. Because one person with the know-how/equiptment to get around the DRM and upload it is all it takes. They can't do much about that, and they know it.
Making it "non-burnable" annoys some people, but defeats the large number of people who would give or lend all their buddies a copy, but don't have the ability to burn them. This is not as big an issue with porn, because people don't typically do a lot of lending porn to their friends; so the industry may as well let you burn it.
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How Frivilous?? Lets see, they hired people to spam, they spammed me, there are laws against spamming, I have clear notices that spam is not welcome. How else to stop them?
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No. You can burn perfectly playable video DVDs on DVD-R and DVD+R. Have been able to from their introduction. The only thing I can think of like what you're describing is PSX/PS2 games which have an unburnable section on them that prevents them from being played if not used in a modded PS2.
For copy protection, I assume it's tied to a program and does something like what Apple does with music on itunes - on your hard drive it's in an encrypted format, when you tell the program to burn it then it will decode it all to standard mpeg2 and burn it onto a DVD.
... but not nearly as much as renounification.
It is illogical and inconsistent, however. Everything is made up of smaller parts, and the line is drawn totally arbitrarily. To me, it leads to perceptual and logical confusion.
Do the British say "my hair are too long" and "the grass are growing"? Because those are both collective nouns as well (and dear god, I hope they don't actually say the two examples I mentioned).
Do the British say "my outfit sure look nice"? An outfit is made up of a shirt, pants/skirt, belt, hat, etc. So it should be plural, shouldn't it?
Or is it that there must be a number of people? A company has many people so it is plural... what if the president fires everyone and runs the company by himself? Does the company then become singular?
What about a handshake? That requires two human hands, doesn't it? That is, unless two monkeys shake hands. Maybe it is the number of living things that decide if something is plural.
The Earth are round, right? Because the Earth has billions of people, animals, trees, a bunch of water... and let's not forget that the ocean are full of fish (among other things), so that should be plural too, maybe.
Are towns treated as plural? (I honestly don't know.) A town have multiple people in it, so I would think it should be done that way, logically speaking. Of course, what about a ghost town? Is that now singular, or is it, perhaps, the number of of houses or traffic lights that causes it to be treated as a plural?
Or... maybe we can just say that if there is one of something, it is singular, no matter what it is made up of. I like that idea.
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Sony and Loinsgate have huge investments in Cinemanow and Movielink .
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Your ignorance is forgiven. Copy protection on DVD's is optional (if desired, a decryption key is embedded into a non-writable portion of the disc, and then the video is encrypted with that key. if desired though, video can be burned encrypted). X-rated DVD's don't have copy protection. Literally. You can do a direct duplicate and it plays fine.
It's the only industry that has basically called BS on the "piracy" problem. Yeah it'll happen, but it's gonna happen no matter what, and paying customers get ticked when copy protection gets in the way of legitmate uses. They've ignored it, and have make a fortune doing so.
"People who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who do."-Mark Twain
Did vivid spam you, or did an affiliate of vivid spam you?
;)
I'm betting it was the latter, and I'm also betting if you emailed vivid, they'd have terminated their account and all monies owing.
As a 2c, making $200k off 4 sites probably makes them less crappy than you seem to credit them
Part of what makes DeCSS a copy protection scheme is that you can't do bit-for-bit copies of CSS encoded discs. You can't write CSS information to DVD-R media; it doesn't support it, even on the so-called "Authoring" grade media.
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Their affiliates did. Their attorneys said that they had no responsibility for anyone who links to them.
There is lots they can do to prevent this:
1. Check their affiliates first.
2. Check the referrer information and compare it to the websites that the affiliate
provided.
3. Identify the affiliate to the person referred by the affiliate (ie. a button that says "click here to see who sent you").
Many of the companies that spam through the affiliate programs use the Sargent Schultz defense - "I know nothing, I see nothing, I hear nothing."
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At the very least, you could say they're trying to improve their market penetration.
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
To be fair, the Watterson quote was just "Verbing weirds language."
But yeah, should still give homage to that Calvin & Hobbes strip.
There are seriously not enough porn chicks with glasses.
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Actually linguists would more likely argue that language is dynamic and that the written word as well as 'stnadardised english' is a contrivance.
'Standard' and 'formal' language is generally part of the hierarchical nature of society. What's standard today, and what might be standard tomorrow, for example, might be completely different.
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... who read the title and immediately thought - is this so people don't get caught by their partners/parents/kids with Porn DVDs? Seeing as normal DVDs don't burn too well it seemed like a sensible improvement.
Since when did the music industry "partly" blame piracy for their decline in sales? From what I've witnessed, they seem to be completely clueless to the fact that their product simply sucks - it's rarely worth purchasing, not to mention overpaying for it.
You didn't RTFA, did you? They said explicitly that there would be copy protection, and I quote "The finished disc will be copy-protected to deter piracy."
Which brings me back to the point - how do they plan on embedding the copy protection and still making it playable? Unless they mean some bogus macrovision non-VHS level monkeying, which I say doesn't count in digital media.
I must say that I don't know whether or not XXX videos are CSS encoded - I don't own any to try out. I rip most of my DVDs for my HT server, and they all get decoded. I only know the task in one direction - I don't know how I'd go the other way and still make the disc playable.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
That's rubbish, and it's not how affiliate marketting works.
If I come up to your door selling AmWay and put a gun to your head, who are you going to sue.
Affiliates sign LARGE, binding contracts to become affiliates, and out of all the companies, Vivid have their legals together.
What you SHOULD be doing is subpeonaing the affiliate's information, and then you can BOTH happily sue them.
Humbug!
First, I sold Bestline 35 years ago and it was not a huge contract, I have looked at the affiliate forms, and they are not huge either.
Second, this is not the same as Amway. Amway sells the product to the sales person, the sales person pays Amway. Here, the 'affiliate' places an advertisement for the web site, the web site collects the money, then sends the affiliate a cut. The law imparts liability on the web site in this situation.
Third, generally I contact these companies, and hear nothing back.
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No, I didn't RTFA. I was at work when I wrote the comment and want to keep the porn article browsing to a minimum ;).
I'll admit that I have a few XXX DVD's, and none have been copy protected or region coded.
As to ripping DVD's, you just use a program to decrypt it to an iso and then burn it back to a DVDR unencrypted. It's a very simple process, but even that much is unecessary on (most) XXX DVD's. No I don't have anything by Vivid (and they are a larger name in the industry), but the overwhelming majority do not have any protection (same online. I know Danni's does add WMP9 protection, but I know of no other sites that do).
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i guess not a lot of people would want to go to a shop and buy/rent videos. doing it in their homes will get them some privacy.
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How appropriate...
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that was great, thanks for the laughs.
If they (Porn websites) implemented good practices (such as the ones I suggested), it would cut down on quite a bit of the spam. But generally, when contacted I hear nothing back. But the industry is part of the problem. Of course it has improved over the last 2 years -- maybe because the FTC sued some of them.
Many of the websites do have those terms, but those terms never seem to be enforced. Yes, don't do it, Wink...Wink.
There is one company that when sued, they created two more companies to try to avoid judgment. After judgment was entered, they moved their money offshore.
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This is the funniest link I've seen on slashdot in a quite a while, thanks!
If you are CRAZY enough to pay for PORNOGRAPHY: http://www.cumonmyglasses.com/
It burns, it burns!
;-)
Sounds like you need better antivirus protection.
no, this needs either a better hemorrhoid treatment or a severe cut-back on chilli intake...
Yes, but the Americans perfected it...when British people sing do they have a British accent or an American accent? Seems to me like if we all sing the same way(non-british) then that must be the more correct approach to the language.
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But the line isn't arbitrary (well, there are exceptions, as always). The problem seems to be that in English, a collective noun is treated as a plural, whereas in American English, it is not.
Most of the other words you've picked out as examples (town, Earth, ocean) are *not* collective nouns or plurals, even though they refer to things that could be viewed as groups of other things (or, at least, they aren't in English - presumably they are in American English, though, or you wouldn't have used them).
Well, my central aim was humor; I know it doesn't get quite as absurd as all the cases I listed.
I still don't feel like I have ever gotten an explanation of why, for example, "company" and "band" qualify as things to be treated as plurals (even though you can have "a band" and "one company"), but "town", for example, doesn't qualify. What would be the criteria that one fits into and the other doesn't?
And actually, I shouldn't have said "collective" nouns at all, I should have said "mass" nouns, because that is what we are actually talking about here.
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You miss a few things. 1. 6 months after suit, Vivid didn't provide affiliate information. 2. The "affiliate agreement" is a contact between Vivid (or other site) and the spammer, this means that Vivid can sue that spammer for breach. Vivid knows who this affiliate is, do you think they provided the information? Do you think they asked for my help in prosecuting this guy?
I sued PerfectGonzo and got a judgment over $150k. I have a friend who collected over $100k from PerfectGonzo. Even after being sued, and having a default entered against PerfectGonzo, they still spammed me. Do you think they ever asked for the affiliate information? All they did was try to hide. They had no interest in stopping the spam.
And this is not like Amway. The affiliates are advertisers, not independant distributors. This is more like the door to door salesman of Great Western Insuance Company in the movie, the RainMaker. Amway, you buy a product from the distributor, the Amway distributor is like a store. Here, the affiliate is only an advertiser for the site owner. The site owner collects the money.
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