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The Pornographers vs. The Pirates
conq writes "BusinessWeek has a piece on how pornography is again leading the way and showing Holywood how to fight back against piracy. From the article: 'Some producers of porn are starting to share revenues from online movies with the distributors of their DVDs, who might otherwise feel endangered by digital distribution online. Bolder yet, one large studio is allowing fans who buy movies online to burn them from their computers onto DVDs, with some protections included, of course.'"
Porn is like crack. You hand it out freely to people, then those who really like it but too 'right' to just take it will buy it. Just like those 'tards who steal to buy/get crack. There a ton of people addicted to porn. The porn industry is able to stay afloat because they keep their product out in the open (even if people are embarrased to buy them) to download, watch, burn, etc. VHS is dead and I don't think will be coming back so DVD & downloading are the only alternatives. HD-DVD and Blue Ray are due out soon as well. I'm guessing they'll end up backing both formats so as to reap more profits.
On a side note...I can guess that porn stars don't get nearly as much pay as a Hollywood star. With that said I don't see a porn star living like crap either... So it begs to reason wtf Hollywood stars think they deserve to get paid an ever increasing amount of $$ because a movie that was written by someone we will probably never remember(or know) was a huge hit. IMO the movie stories and ALL the people involved make a great film, not just one crappy actor. Example: MI3...was good, not because of Cruise, but because the movie was put together well (very action packed), the plot twists also helped. Screw Cruise.
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For the bad girl you actually want to have sex with: +1 Kinky.
For the fat chick you'll probably end up scoring with: +1 Arsehole.