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The Pornographers vs. The Pirates

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there-are-worse-leads-to-follow dept.

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.'"

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  1. So this is how it turns out by Svippy · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you thought it was just pirates vs. ninjas?

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    Clicked pie.
  2. Now there is a porn video I'd watch... by demongeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Pornographers versus The Pirates!

    Pirate: Arr! Bend over me matey while I prepare the long guns to pilage that booty!
    Porn Star: Oh! Don't pilage MY booty, at least not until my sorority girlfriends come over to help me repel borders! Oh!

  3. It isn't needed. by Lave · · Score: 5, Insightful
    I doubt there is anything with a higher pirated/legit ratio than porn.

    I know no-one who has bought porn - but everyone has watched it.

    Why hasn't porn gone bust like the movie and music industries say will happen to them?

    If a legitimate market can keep porn afloat an inherently embarrassing purchase - then everything else doesn't need to worry

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    1. Re:It isn't needed. by LoonyMike · · Score: 5, Insightful

      SPAM also has a low clicks/emails rate (I think), but the few clicks are enough to make it profitable.
      Low-budget porn movies might also need a relatively small number of sales to make money, even if they are massively pirated.

    2. Re:It isn't needed. by Jakob777 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I happen to run "Adult Book Stores" (porn shacks) and I have seen only a increase in sales due to the Internet, they bait them with a 10 second clip maybe the get a membership to the site then they are in my store buying up all of that actress that makes there mind go wild and POW I have cash in hand. The same works for the most part with me and my friends, we get the cams of new movies or the new album, and we are out buying it or sitting in a cola covered seat with that crying baby to go see the real thing.

      I think this will make all the profit margins for the adult industry go up, and the RIAA should look into not being such raging pricks but nice calm porn CEO's :)

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    3. Re:It isn't needed. by Eivind · · Score: 5, Insightful
      You mean you know noone who will admit to having bougth porn.... Not the same thing.

      Besides, porn movies are embarassingly low-budget. What counts as a "high budget" porn-movie doesn't even show up on the radar for budgeting normal movies. And some of the low-budget porn-movies have budgets down in the 4-digits range.

      You don't need to sell an awful lot to make a profit if your total budget is less than a years salary.

  4. Coz They Cant Lobby by ikejam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think it has more to do with the fact that since no politican can afford to be seen lobbied by a porn cartel, they have to come up with fairer solutions...

  5. The REAL scary truth for hollywood... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...is that porn movies are better acted, the dialog is more natural and they feature less contrived and often more thought provoking plots than most over-hyped 'blockbusters'. That and more titty ;-)

  6. Link to article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Submitter forgot to include link to article http://www.digg.com/movies/The_Pornographers_vs._T he_Pirates

  7. Bigger Business by pianoman113 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pornography has always been a huge business, and they have always been on the bleeding edge of technology. Look at the internet. Long before their was the World Wide Web there were dial-in BBS's where people could download pornography. When VCRs came out, pornography was almost immediately available on video cassettes.
    The pornography business' profit margin is much higher and that allows them much more freedom to innovate in their distribution. That, and they have no doubt that people will continue to consume their product.
    I doubt they'll ever eliminate the pirates, but they will lead the way technologically for flexible video distribution.

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    Free as in speech, free as in beer, or free as in lunch?
  8. Re:The real technique they're using... by jamesh · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Free porn has been available since the invention of alcohol and anyone with enough nerve to nod suggestively at a lady. That is, free-as-in-"give her a"-beer :)

    (I've been waiting a long time for the appropriate place to use that line!)

  9. I learned my lesson. by Killshot · · Score: 5, Informative

    When I first got into the adult industry, I fought really hard to "protect" my copyrights. Any time I found my photos elsewhere on the internet I would have my lawyer send out threatening letters, I would try to sue people. I would get peoples websites shut down.. it cost a lot of time and money and mostly I just pissed people off.

    Eventually I figured out that in most cases when people copied my photos and shared them.. it increased revenue because people would come to my site looking for more. I then restricted any lawsuits to people who would charge money to access content they stole from me.

    I think the music and movie industry could learn the same lesson.

    1. Re:I learned my lesson. by TwistedEvo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Simple question.

      How many of you just couldn't resist clicking on the parent's home page?

  10. Re:The naked truth... by Hillie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry but I have to disagree, whether it be porn or anything else DRM leaves you feeling cheap and used.

    Now nevermind the thousands of inuendos and puns that statement may suggest. The fact is that no one wants to pay any amount of money per month on some site that lets you download content, if the content is going to stop working when you quit paying that site money.

    Whether that content is porn or music. There are millions of people who would pay a $3.95 trial to buy the ONE song they've been lookin for but unable to find elsewhere or that video they got spammed with that peaked their interest.

    With the DRM ripoff schemes of RIAA and some porn sites this is not possible. So let's say you were a member of any music/porn site that used DRM on their files. Restrictive DRM.. you paid a total of maybe $200 to them and you decide you don't want the service anymore, but you do like what you've gotten so far. You quit you're screwed.. so you're telling me I gotta keep paying to keep what I ALREADY PAID FOR?

    No thanks. *gives RIAA the finger*

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    - Alex