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Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW)
* By David Kravets Email Author
* April 29, 2010 |
* 5:23 pm |
* Categories: Digital Millennium Copyright Act, porn
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Piracy is hurting the bottom line of the adult entertainment industry, according to a new public-address video starring porn stars.
The Adult Entertainment Trade Association, a branch of the Free Speech Coalition, says DVD sales are down at least a third because of DVD counterfeiting and so-called internet “tube” porn sites that sometimes infect viewers’ computers with malware and spyware. Credible piracy figures are not available, as the porn business is run largely by private companies, the coalition says.
“What we’re trying to communicate in these new videos, is that this is not just hurting the big companies like Larry Flynt, but the people who work in production, the performers, the sideline businesses like makeup artists,” says Joanne Cachapero, the coalition’s membership coordinator, in a telephone interview Thursday. “Piracy is really a problem for our industry in terms of dropping revenues. This is what we’re trying to communicate to the consumer.”
Cachapero says the porn industry is years behind the anti-piracy efforts of the recording industry and the mainstream motion-picture industry. Those efforts include lobbying, digital rights management and even litigation.
That’s about to change.
Many adult-film producers within the last month have begun employing fingerprinting technology to track online copyright infringement, Cachapero says. A bounty of copyright infringement lawsuits might follow, Cachapero said.
Hat tip: Ben Sheffner.
Read More Porn Stars Decry Piracy in New Video (SFW) | Threat Level | Wired.com
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Our roots are about sexuality here. Some of us worked in the industry in some capacity and we did make a living.
At what point is "free" not a sustainable business model. I recently read/listened to
and disagree heavily with the business model. It's just not a sustainable model. Many things that I grew up with were free, and are no longer. TV and Radio for one thing were advertising supported, but at some point in time that model someone said, "I can give more content and charge a fee for it." Water, people in the 70's would have never bought bottled water, except knowing they were camping or going somewhere without potable water. People are willing to pay for things. MP3s used to be free, but itunes helped create a business model that made sense to people and people are buying them. The same thing for apps that were for handhelds.
I think that the porn industry needs to find their itunes. Something to help them centralize their distribution and content, and make it easy and simple for people to buy it. It was good in the early days of the internet, and there's still some good subscription sites out there.
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