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Actually he's not wrong. Online porn piracy has been around since before 99% of people here had even heard of the internet, let alone tried to sell anything on it. Before the world wide web even existed.
In the 80s people were stealing copyrighted porn and selling it, or giving it away, via bulletin board systems. In the early 90s it spread to Usenet, where people posted files from BBSs or scanned new files. Free porn. In the mid 90s it spread to the newly created web, where, like BBSs but unlike Usenet, it was again possible to make money from stolen porn.
Some of the big names of today, who aren't shy when complaining about their own copyrighted material being stolen, started life in the 90s by spamming Usenet groups with copyrighted material they didn't own, and selling access to it.
This 'industry' (aka collection of hypocritical, green-eyed, cannibalistic piranhas) is one of the most crooked, low-rent, untrustworthy businesses in the world.
Despite porn being legal and immensely popular, people within it still have the same backward, narrow mindset that it's not 'mainstream'; that it still exists in sleazy bookstores in shit zip codes; where ripping off customers is fine, because they're not going to complain; that shady practices are not just tolerable, but are the norm.
Nobody, not a single person, gives one shit about piracy, except where it affects them. There isn't a single person in the world who hasn't downloaded or used images, music or movies without the permission of the creator/owner.
The only people who pretend that they care about piracy are people trying to make a buck by pretending piracy can be stopped (while simultaneously defending the biggest pirates, the adult tubes).
Of course even if piracy could be stopped, why would the 'anti-pirates' do it anyway? They'd be out of business.
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