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Tactics in the Porn Industry's Fight Against Piracy
An anonymous reader writes "A C|Net article discusses the technological innovations being used by the porn industry to ensure they stay relevant (like streaming HD-quality feeds and remote interaction), as well as profitable. Live performances and cutting-edge technology combine to ensure a steady stream of revenue in the age of free downloads. 'Now Kink.com is on the cutting edge of the fight against video piracy. While mainstream entertainment outlets like Viacom and NBC complain noisily about YouTube, Kink.com, with neither the resources nor the mainstream appeal of its giant counterparts, is in an even tougher fight: Protecting the content it produces that's continually copied and reposted on the dozens of Web sites that traffic in poached adult material.'"
The idea of "remote interaction" sounds very promising. :D
"Yo dirty notty people from the piracy world! How dare you do something so immoral as piracy! Take an example of us skimpy clothed, if at all, men and women working hard with dildos and shower cream to teach our men, women and children the real values of morals and ethics! Shame on you guys!"
Yes, first ensure your now dead cat is cooked though-out and start with the head.
Unless you are interested in the business story of a porn outlet, there is almost nothing in TFA about copyright. They move to live streams (although at higher resolution than most non-porn streams seem to offer), to make it more difficult and less interesting to copy content. Editors: Why was this omitted from the summary?
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Live performances and cutting-edge technology combine to ensure a steady stream of revenue
Oh, so that's what they're calling it these days.
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Seriously. I got pissed off trying to get laid with girls who didn't even give me a second look. Don't go out and find some dirty street hooker though, get yourself a high-class escort. It'll cost, but it's worth it. In the long run it'll probably cost less than a girlfriend or wife would, plus there's no commitment, no birthdays, anniversaries or valentine's days to worry about and certainly no inevitable costly divorce ;-) Plus if you're a regular client you'll probably get a discount. Think about it, all the sex without the nagging wife. I've been doing this for some years now and my life is great, sure my friends who have girlfriends or wives get sex more often than I do, but I get anal, a completely shaved pussy and no hassle. Plus my mates can come over for sports / film nights whenever I want.
That's one idea, and a good one. However not all porn can be live, it's simply not feasible for certain types. I would say the best way to prevent piracy and ensure that SOMEBODY finances the production of the stuff would be to slap it with invisible, personally identifying watermarks. If they are spotted on pictures and images found in the wild, so to speak, your subscription is cancelled and you don't get a refund.
Although that might make people want to give them all away the day before their subscription ends, so that part I'm not sure about yet.
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an give an insightful answer, i'll have to do a bit of.... reasearch on this one.
Gotta go now
funny pics
god, please, somebody delete this crap thread!
The MAFIAA is a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first up against the wall when the revolution comes
While this can be a good way to keep piracy low, it should be fairly obvious that if your goal is making money then canceling your customers' subscriptions is not the way to go about it.
My impression is that porn sites tend to have a more realistic outloook on these incidents and look at it as free advertising rather than a loss of revenue.
Piracy is like the rain. Until somebody builds a magical weather machine, you'd better make sure your house has a sturdy roof and clean gutters instead of trying to call the police any time the skies look threatening.
depending on the type of porn some people may not wish to be named in a lawsuit and will settle out of court. Immoral RIAA style
That the last 3 articles I have read on Slashdot about porn industry technology challenges and advances have all referenced kink.com. As many porn sites as there are, this seems like an odd coincidence. Sounds like a subtle advertising campaign to me.
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Seriously. Anyone with mod points out there get ready to use them - there's going to be a lot of clicks on "Troll" needed.
A C|Net article discusses the technological innovations being used by the porn industry to ensure they stay relevant
I can assure them that they need not change anything to remain relevant in my life.
Porn as a product is an interesting one. As a commodity, it's marketplace is almost unsaturateable. So the only real downside for a porn company having paying subscribers reposting material is the potential loss of an individual subscription. I say potential because there is no guarantee that they would have paid you in the first place, and like the other guy said, if they like what they see they might drop by and actually sign up ('probly not but a few will). But, by actually cancelling a subscription they ARE losing a paying customer. In a marketplace that can't be saturated, all you need to do is spit as much product out as possible because the market will always be there. Your customers will not pay for something they have previously viewed anyway, so your inventory is not really worth as much as one might imagine. In this light, there is absolutely no upside to cancelling a subscription, it can only cost money; either in tech investment, or employee time to actually remove the client.
O....k, I agree with most of what you're saying, but what is this bit about $5 account? I've done a little research of my own (ahem), and I don't see a difference at all between the motivation for someone to get a paid slashdot account (a little money to make the ads go bysies) and for someone to get a paid empornium account (a little money to make the dirty pictures that I want to see in a non-ad format go bysies). If you've lived in a western culture and have more than half a brain (which I'm guessing is most of the people here) then you'll learn to just screen 99% of ads out (the only ones that seem to have any effect are the ones with catchy jingles). Hell, I've had a gmail account for about a year and a half or so now, and I only noticed the ads about 3 months ago..
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
... even the remote idea of interaction sounds promising here. 8P
Yes, first ensure your now dead cat is cooked though-out and start with the head.
Kittens are best of course, far more tender and less stringy. But for the REAL thing, you should try puppy.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
If you and a friend buy the same thing, you'll get a stream S mixed with watermarks X and Y (S+X, S+Y). XOR them together; Make zero anything in both files that's 1 in the XOR: The data is the same, and is zero when XORed with itself, whereas a watermark will be ~50% 1 and 50% 0. So, S+X + (random) AND (S+X XNOR S+Y) will destroy a mean of half the watermark bits in X's file.
Disclaimer: IANACryptologist.
Any porn article that does not explicitly mention http://www.cheggit.net/ is redundant :p
The "remote interaction" technology will be used to reach out and grab your testicles until you can produce a valid credit card number.
Give a man a fish and you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish, and he'll say "WHERE'S MY FISH, YOU IDIOT?"
"absolutely ridiculous to focus on the 'tech side' like you are doing. absolutely dumb."
Slashdhot is about tech. Try Jerry Springer.
"what about the piracy that porn producers use against the actors?"
What about you support your assertions?
"Emotionally distraut" eH? This sounds more like Fundie anti-porn industry propaganda.
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What about open-source porn? What!? Oh... I guess if that were the case, all you'd see would be nerdy couples doing it in front of their computer.
well theres only one tactic described in the article, which is going live with interaction from the audience.
Actually, I think it just reflects the tastes of the average slashdotter... we tend to be more discerning and have more sophisticated interests.
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Dude Empornium blows chunks, I think you should find some other sites. Check it out! Viva la revolucion!
O....k, I agree with most of what you're saying, but what is this bit about $5 account? I've done a little research of my own (ahem), and I don't see a difference at all between the motivation for someone to get a paid slashdot account (a little money to make the ads go bysies) and for someone to get a paid empornium account (a little money to make the dirty pictures that I want to see in a non-ad format go bysies)
Ugh! The difference is Empornium is charging money for pirated content, while Slashdot is not.
Just make sure you get checked regularly for STDs. Condoms are very effective but nothing is foolproof.
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Rather than cancel their subscription, embed personally identifying information and/or their credit card # in the watermark. Then release a program that will scan the video and recover the information.
For a time, Empornium was asking for a donation, and in return you got access to a better search engine, there was no requirement that you give them 5 bucks to download anything. They dropped the donation thing almost a year ago, and had to close the forums down because of all the pissed off freeloaders trolling. The torrent side never closed, but the trolling fanboys ran off a lot of old members and the torrent upload quantity dropped for a while, but the forums have been back open since christmas, and the number of torrents uploaded is getting back to its old level. Its obvious that there are the trolling fanboys here (note the 'check it out' line above) slamming Empornium for asking for a donation, yet almost every other pirate site also asks for donations. Weird. Also, the idiot saying the admins are getting X amount of dollars a month? How does he know, does he have access to their bank accounts? I seriousl doubt it.
The main fight a few years ago was burying free content in the endless link maze of search pages. They paid each other for the traffic so in the search lottery, The less you paid to get people to your sight and the more you set along the better you did. Having any real content to keep people at your site was just a waste of bandwidth, so there was seldom any content. The gravy was if you got anybody into your paid site. You could spend all night going from link to link to link to link and not finding any free content.
The old tech was to wear you out until you settled on a pay site.
Other than the lawsuit campaign buy the RIAA it's the same thing Media Sentry does seeding P-P sites with dead content to the point where finding free content is a waste of time. They hope you give up and just use a pay site because that is where the content is located. A bunch of sited trying to make a buck on links or content is trying to find out how to compete against free and pirated content which keeps growing anyway.
Notice how in spite of the death of the old Naptser, that new music content keeps poping up that isn't pirated? Free content that isn't illegal is nice. Keep it up.
Any new tech for pay content, I would'n know about.. Haven't been there if it involves any DRM.
The truth shall set you free!
When anyone can make scriptable interactive realistic 3D models, the whole things going down in flames.
The good news is, asstr.org will become something of a vast voluntary porn production theatre troupe.
What I would like is a good system in place to ensure the businesses are on the up-and-up. There's a good bit of internet porn that uses trafficked women--modern-day-slavery. I'd like to see an initiative--maybe even from leading industry partners--to certify that porn businesses for, effectively, being legitimate.
There are big legitimate players in this business. And there are small legitimate players. But then there are a lot of slave-owners. We need a good way to fight that, and to make human trafficking less profitable. Legitimate pornographers (Don't laugh--even if you find illegitimacy in their profession, there's a distinction between a pornographer and a slave manager, and the latter is worse) could do some good work there.
I just love seeing, hearing, feeling a woman react to it. The knowledge that I can give a woman that kind of ecstasy gives me a lot of confidence. And when she gives me head in return, it'll be fantastic.
It's also a good way to keep things moving between rounds.
Providers who know what they're doing in this business won't ask for tips or expect them. Anything that implies they're getting extra pay for specific activities undermines the legal umbrella under which they are able to do business as escorts. And a well-reviewed, top-notch provider (I've seen many) will simply charge a higher hourly rate.
GFE doesn't mean Greek is on the menu. It's not something you want to rely on in providers' profiles, anyway. Reviews will indicate if GFE-type services are offered, and as with everything, your mileage may vary. The PSE tag, meaning pornstar experience, can mean Greek is available, but it's something that's awfully unpredictable, which is one reason I'm glad it's not my thing.
And Craigslist is full of robs, scams, pranks, and traps. Definitely not the place a newbie should start out. Go with reputable agencies or well-reviewed independent providers. And do some research first.
it's nice to turn your MOTAS into a pile of quivering orgasm jelly.
At least these girls typically get tested on a regular basis, which is more than can be said for the general public. And they always (okay, some very rare exceptions) require the use of a condom.
Besides, women sleep around, too. Because of the stigma, they don't brag about it the way guys do. So you're no safer with the girl you've just hooked up with, or got in the sack on the third or fourth date. Probably less.
You want safety? Don't screw anybody. Then you're home-free, you know, provided some drunk doesn't kill you in a car crash or something. I say, take precautions, but go out and LIVE while you can. Use your equipment while it doesn't need Pfizer's little blue pills to work properly.
Mark Ishikawa from BayTSP (the company who keeps hacking into your PC) beats the "What about the children?" drum when he promotes his Anti-bittorrent company, has contracts to protect the work of pornographers like Suze Randall.
...are reserved for huffing. Don't they teach anything in school anymore?
The view was horrible and the smell was even worse; Julie severely regretted becoming a proctologist.
True, or just reencode the video. Slight quality loss, but likely not enough to make people complain if the original was hidef and clean.
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Freeloading trolls? You obviously know nothing about the 'behind the scenes' empornium.
Donations are fine, Emp always had them, most sites do. That really wasn't the issue at all. The issue is that Saz was a cool guy, really friendly, people liked him. He signed a bad advertising deal and ended up losing control of empornium. The marketing dipshits forced him out and tried to profit off empornium by means of signup fee(it's not a donation if it's forced, don't kid yourself), selling of shoddy merch, etc.
Most of the big uploaders who actually put stuff into the site were disgusted by this, both that someone was trying to profit off of their attempt to distribute things for free, and how badly they were fucking over the owner of the site. Hence everyone went to cheggit, which is actually much better in its own right (tagging system instead of 'genres'? I WISH oink had that).
The only reason empornium isn't dead is some actual freeloading trolls don't want to give up their ratio and help build cheggit up when it started. Considering how easy it is for people to just crosspost the data they get from cheggit to empornium, of course emp will still get new content.
For the record:
Empornium: Your Share Ratio: 5.11 Uploaded: 402.01 GB Downloaded: 78.71 GB
Cheggit: Share 3.90 Uploaded 199.83 GB Downloaded 51.25 GB
I'm no leech or freeloader, just a perv. Posting anonymously as I don't know how much of this info is supposed to be public
Just trying to think of the numbers here. But I'm guessing that your average prostitute's number of unique sex partners far exceeds that of your ordinary promiscuous woman. Also, I would think that the average risk factor of the average prostitute's client would be higher than the average risk factor of a typical libertine's partner. By risk factor, I mean having riskier sex and therefore more at risk to be infected with something.
Think about it. I read in the Post that they busted a brothel where the prostitutes work 10+ hour days, seven days a week, with a "session" lasting an hour. Let's assume a little slack time and guess that she is having sex with 7 different guys per day, 6 days per week. Sure, there will be some repeat clients in there, but your average promiscuous woman would generally not have 30 or 40 different sex partners per week. That is my assumption, anyhow.
So I'm guessing that a visit to your local brothel carries a higher STD infection risk than taking home some drunk chick from the bar.
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