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Originally Posted by Robbie
kroncheez, the main difference between porn vs music or hollywood movies being pirated is:
The Govt. actually goes after mainstream piracy and courts actually are sympathetic to the Music Industry and Hollywood.
When it comes to porn? The Govt. is GLAD we are getting destroyed and so are the courts.
If you pirate a Hollywood movie or an album, you would know that there is a possibility you could get into trouble.
If you pirate a porn movie? You get a high-five from your buddies and don't have to worry at all about getting in trouble.
Plus when it's all sitting there on tube sites with full scenes by the tens of thousands...it's OBVIOUSLY free.
You didn't see the music industry putting up sites like Napster themselves.
But people in our industry do just that. Pornhub is FULL of stolen full scenes of porn.
And then Mansef/Manwin/MindGeek also hire a team to dmca Brazzers videos down from other pirate sites.
And to top it all off...the very companies who get their shit stolen and put up on Pornhub, then turn around and PAY Pornhub for the traffic that their own stolen scenes are generating!
Can you imagine a band paying Napster back in the day to give away their own music in the hopes that 1 in 10,000,000 MIGHT buy the album?
It's called cutting your own throat.
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+1 Pretty much my thoughts on it as well. The only addition I have to make is to point out that since the people in the top of our industry seem to condone the piracy (or even be pirates themselves) it is no wonder there is little chance of the government helping us. You do not see AVN and XBIZ for example taking a hardline anti-pirate approach. Instead often the pirates give the keynote speeches and sometimes they are able to get incriminating posts by others removed.
In fact there is a case for saying piracy was used as a method to gain a monopoly or near monopoly in the industry. Thousands and thousands of people who were competition (including affiliates) were pushed out largely as a result of the piracy. One company in particular bought up most of the others for pennies on the dollar. They are starting to fail now IMO but it's clear what was happening.