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Originally Posted by RawAlex
The average 4 or 5 scene porn movie costs in the tens of thousands of dollars to produce. Paying the actors, renting the location, equipment, post production, getting legal rights for music and such... it all costs money to do. Porn isn't a "get a video camera and a $50 hooker" business, sorry.
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The big movie studios spend much more than tens of thousands of dollars on their movies and they have had no success defeating piracy. Somebody taking your product and not paying for it is theft, but the internet has enabled people to do this without any consequence except for a very small handful of people. You can try and take down torrents or nzb sites, but even if you are successful in taking down any at all, new ones will pop up. The fact that this story is hitting the mainstream makes it even more popular and the torrent and nzb sites get press, meaning more traffic.
Metallica spent lots of money on lawyers to prevent their music from being pirated. The end result was a huge loss of fans and money, and their music is still all over the internet readily available for download.
Think about the analogy of a farmers crop and a bug infestation. A farmer has a good year and is able to make money from his crop. The next year bugs infest his crop, which leads to less earnings. He then starts using pesticide, kills the bugs, but also potentially poisoning some of his crop. Then over the years the bugs adapt to the pesticide and are unaffected which leads the farmer to other more expensive pesticides. There is no end to it, the ante always has to be upped.
You can see the pesticide as any method to thwart piracy, but eventually piracy groups will find away around it. DRM could be used, but think of your members who download videos and then maybe convert them to another format to put on their Ipod or other media player. With DRM they won't be able to do this. You could offer an ipod format, that of course would mean more cost to you in the form of bandwidth, or they could say screw it and find a another site that doesn't put DRM on their videos.
Like I said this story has hit the news sites and is it sounds like your trying to find a way to combat piracy. Whatever you decide on, what you are really doing is issuing a challenge to the piracy community. That's how they will see it and right now they are undefeated. Think long and hard about what you are going to do because it probably will end up with you losing more money in the long run than recouping that 4%.