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- AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+56So in other words porn=good.
- beelz, on 10/12/2007, -2/+48Internet is for Porn
- Brajeshwar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Well, Porn is a good Bench Marker. If you want to know if a Technology will be successful - video, photos - see if the same had been successful with Porn. This is true in most cases.
- cr125er, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Could you imagine the courtroom transcripts? Those would be comedy gold.
Sir, we are suing this fifteen year old for illegally downloading the following:
***** Goes In My Butt 45
Rug Lickers 32
Blow your load 31
...20 minutes later
and I Banged Yer Mom Vol. 2 - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27"No pornography in the article"
Buried. - bflfab, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20and the long one for non referring people
http://www.duggmirror.com/business_finance/What_Porn_Can_Teach_Us_About_Piracy_No_pornography_in_the_article/ - yocheo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17@mightme
No, cause chances are they're doing the same. - tidu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11You lost diggs by putting "(No pornography in the article)" in the title.
- Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Here is another case where the lawsuits could backfire. They would go after the pornographers for making pron availble to minors.
- emperortomato, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9kind of silly to argue about this but i'm not sure that that's the reason... you don't think a lot of people would settle to avoid the embarrassment of a trial? lots of people view porn, probably the majority of guys. and maybe we talk about things like that with those that we trust, but it's still a taboo. like picking your nose. you probably do it but you pretend that you don't.
- Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Porn companies don't seem to be hurting for cash.
- Seanpr123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7were talking about pr0n here buddy, not video games.
Unless your talking about porn + video games. If thats the case, please continue - nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7You didn't even think your whole argument through. If the porn industry makes substantially less than the film makers, then wouldn't they notice event he slightest loss of revenue due to piracy? Yes they would, yet they probably haven't or they would take measures to gain that back and curb pirates efforts to distribute their content free of charge.
"Porn makes money on VOLUME." ... um, yes they do. so does everyone else who sells any consumer product at all. - rev4bart, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The initial ban of porn on LaserDiscs is what was one of the biggest reasons why the LaserDisc failed. (that later changed, but too little too late).
I read a bunch of articles on how every 1 out of something (forget the number) of DVD players was being bought mainly to watch porn and make it easier to fffwd, rewind etc. (what other movies do u need to ffwd/rew that much ?) - drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7The interesting thing is that most of the porn industry was favoring Blu-Ray but that was over half a year ago that we heard most of the talk. Given the current situation I wonder if that has changed or not.
- drakethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -7/+13http://www.duggmirror.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7@TheWorm:
lol tell that to larry flynt - rockorager, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think porn will be out on HD-DVD far sooner than Blu-Ray (not sure if they have some movies out yet on either...) but seeing as HD-DVD has (basically) the same production lines, it will be cheaper to produce, and therefore the porn industry will love it. As my sister says: "VHS won over Beta-Max because the porn industry used mostly VHS"
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5So this means that if I download porn the Government won't h4x me as if I were downloading music?
- jbrevik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5No porn! Forget it...
- cam0man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"attributing porn with the success or failure of any format is like trying to win WWII when you're fighting in Viet Nam."
what does that even mean? - Optimaximal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Thinking about it, I bet people rewatch porn more times than movies.
- Blandyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Actually, they do. Pirates, the XXX film capitalizing on the success of Pirates of the Caribbean, is on DVD and HD-DVD... Collector's Edition.
- TheKillDoctor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I think they don't sue because they're not greedy like you know who.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@SpaceJack
"a) laserdisc did not fail. It succeeded for thirty years in niche markets."
Niche Market == Failure - nycjap, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's a pile of crap.
It's *a movie*, in both cases. A script, a bunch of people, a camera, a microphone, some lights and a director. I'm supposed to make allowances for "Hollywood" because Leonardo DiCaprio charges more than Jenna Jamieson? F*** Leonardo and his buddies.
Porn proves that you can make a very good profit from creating content, without crying to the government every time someone makes a copy of your movie. If Hollywood can't manage on what they make, that's their problem, not mine or yours, or the governments. If you can't make enough from producing buggywhips, it's time to try something else. - Blandyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What the ***** did he say?
For a second I thought I was the ultimate dyslexic person. I was about to tell famous I was everyone. - 15charmaxwtf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That sounds so absurd, but people blame school shootings on computer games so I guess that is the mentality of some people.
- Jugalator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Don't be so quick to call their strategy *intentionally* different. It could also be because they haven't got a very powerful organization with the economy to unite and back them up, such as the RIAA or MPAA. While porn is big business as well, I think it takes more organization than that to aggressively pursue pirates.
And yes, some representatives of porn production companies regularly threaten P2P sites etc. about infriging material. Just check the rules of Empornium or whatever if you don't believe me, or ask the admin of RiP Productions. - friedman420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@mightme
the mpaa and riaa are not the government, they are an organization that represents buisnesses. copyright infringement is illegal, but it is not necessarily criminal jurisdiction unless it is for commersial use (such as sale). therefore the riaa and mpaa have to bring individual violators to civil court, they face reparations and fines to these organizations, not jail time. - AlbinoRaven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@Optimaximal
only the scene that they like though, even then only ten minutes....;)
Now what would sell is seven minute porn. Like how long does it take to finish? Why make an entire movie when 7 minutes is really all one would need. - feech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2One other thing too. Sex is never outdated. In the year 2010 I will be watching the same porn I'm watching now and it will look no different than something shot in the year 2010. So when they set up these websites something I watch now my son could come along years later and download it and they are still making a profit. From him 10 years later..does that make sense? sounds better in my head
- Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's not the job the RIAA and MPAA either. It's the job of each individual copyright holder.
And THAT is the point. - guyperson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Wrong article buddy.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3This is weird just today when i was ummm ahhh surfing the web I was thinking that the pron industry must be the most pirated industry and yet still does great.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The porn industry did sue Veoh.com -
http://zachfewtrell.valleywag.com/tech/veoh/why-veoh-pulled-the-plug-on-porn-184737.php - feech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I think the reason its so easy for them to make profits is because it doesn't cost that much for a hotel room (rental house), lighting, and decent cams..***** whats the budget for a porn? 7grrr maybe per movie?? and if its for a website that updates once a month the costs are reduced even more. The fact is most people watching porn are not buying or renting in the stores. They're online streaming the *****. So of course there profits are rising, porn companies have embraced the Internet..Unlike major studios and network T V
- Spacejack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Oh right, because if you're not NUMBER ONE then you can't make any money. I forgot there for a second.
- Brajeshwar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2But if someone read it, s/he should definitely digg it. And now it is already on front page for others to enjoy.
- DavisTheDigger, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2but u can find porn here! => http://www.pornotube.com
- Spacejack, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3a) laserdisc did not fail. It succeeded for thirty years in niche markets.
b) attributing porn with the success or failure of any format is like trying to win WWII when you're fighting in Viet Nam. Porn kicked VHS into the home and has had similar impact on net distribution of video, but was not vital to the success of DVD.
DVD was the single strongest product launch EVER because the consumer base was practically slavering over its high quality and ease-of-use combination. Do not use it as a basis for comparison, it is NOT going to happen again. - 3point1four, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1That's because you only watch a pron a couple of times. It's not like music or main stream movies you'll go back to a hundred times. It's a shotgun approach where you give a ton of content and expect fast results and then a quick death. Why would a company care if a 10 year old video was being downloaded? At that point styles and preferences change and it becomes a nitch product. Sure, they want every penny, but if you watch Pron Teh Movie on some torrent site you just may go and get PTM 2 through 73.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Abuse of bury system, if you don't like it don't digg it, only bury stories which are incorrect.
- headkace, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1It's not the government's job to go after every copyright violator in the world. First, the copyright owner has to find out about the violation and sue or make a complaint. If the copyright owner doesn't care then the government doesn't care either. (I can't get to TFA, BTW. /.'d I bet.)
- Spacejack, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Porn's not a good benchmark for technology in general or video quality or anything like that. It's a good benchmark for distribution techniques.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Sorry, but trying to compare the porn industry to the mainstream motion picture industry only shows you have no idea what you are talking about.
Porn makes money on VOLUME. If they have a movie make a few hundred thousand dollars in sales, they are ecstatic. Because it is almost all profit. Even the biggest porn companies like Vivid. If they have a DVD that has $1 million is sales, they are dancing around the maypole.
Not true of Hollywood. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0i always thought that a mafia type guy would show up at your door and "give you the business" if you traded porn online...
- imacyco, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Diggf**ked?
NVM, saw the mirror. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3TheWorm pointed out perhaps the biggest reason why they don't sue. Because FAR more cases would go to trial. Defendants would take their chances in front of a judge that could easily be against the very idea of pron to begin with, and therefore more likely to be less sympathetic. Plus, they also know that the defendant could drag out all the porn company's dirty laundry.
For example..imagine of Joe Francis tried to sue someone for downloaing Girls Gone Wild. Suddenly he would be forced to prove that all the girls were not only at least 18, but that none of them were drunk. Otherwise any contracts they sign to allow their footage to be in a video is invalid. Granted, like all the "reality" porn sites/videos, the girls who are actually doing more than flashing in the GGW videos are for the most part pair strippers/internet porn stars, so those would be fairly easy to prove. But not the flashers which ARE regular people. - 81v3d07g0d, on 10/12/2007, -13/+4isn't this stating the obvious at this point? Seriously is there anyone who doesn't know this?
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