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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Sorry, I disagree with you massively here. There are around 5 companies that produce by far the majority of porn. Exactly the same as music and movies. Sure, there are thousands of indy producers, but the bulk of the stuff is controlled by very few people.
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this would mean that these big producers would need to put every performer of any merit under contract so they can control where and how content featuring them in created. They would also have to get control of any and all content that is out there featuring these stars. This would control the pornstar aspect of things to some degree.
But in my experience pornstar fans only make up a small amount of porn surfers. As you say there are tons of small producers, enough that I could easily buy up a ton of content that I could do as I please with. With music it is all about who you like. If you are a U2 fan, you want to hear U2. Another band playing something similar just won't cut it. But with porn if you just want to see a hot girl get drilled for many people it doesn't matter if she is a known star or some girl who made two movies and is now a school teacher in Iowa.
The music labels control most of the acts any typical music fan will want to hear. If you told fans they could pay $25 per month and have unlimited access to all their favorite acts and all the hot new acts that came along or they could pay $5 per month but only get access to unknown, unsigned acts, most would pay the higher price. With porn if you offered people an option to pay $25 per month for access to all the hottest stars or $5 per month and they get good scenes, but no stars there are a ton of people who would pay the lower price. And if they attracted a lot of people you know there is someone out there who would then make a site with all that content featuring unknown stars and give it away for free.
For any real change to happen the content producers, actors, talent agents etc would all need to get together and decide up front who they would sell content to and how they would allow it to be used and in the end it still may not matter because there are plenty of people who will download it, then put it up on tubes and force those companies to DMCA them to get it off there.
To me ours is an industry of rogues while mainstream media is an industry of white collar crooks. They have their shit together while we just run around looking for a car with an unlocked door.
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iTunes has sold DRM free for years. Obviously you have to get the studios to go along with it. But everyone told steve it was impossible to do with music movies and tv. He managed it. Somehow.
I'm not saying this is the saving grace of the industry, but it is an interesting thought. Getting pirates to pay you money. Willingly.
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I agree, it is a very interesting point and I am very curious to see how it works. Getting pirates to pay anything is better than nothing so maybe it will light a way where this industry can squeeze a few dollars out of those who would otherwise not pay a dime.