So what has the industry done to combat piracy?

hay programs are aggressive and winning battles, straight ones not so much.

They make daily threads on multiple boards crying in their beers about it.

There has to be someone to blame for their lack of innovation on their 1999 site with 100 scenes that has not been updated since 2005. It's a real mystery why a site that is not updated, or maintained does not retain or convert anymore. Especially when you have a network of them. Or for years programs have banged their cards on upsells and cross sales they did not want.

Oh well, soon most of these guys will be gone and those of us left will get back to bidness.

Well, "the industry" is probably never going to do anything as a single colossus acting in concert. The FSC has tried to rally people around their APAP effort, but you know what they say about herding cats.... particularly when you're asking the cats in question to put up significant sums of money as part of being herded.

At the end of the day, it is up to individual IP rights holders to protect their IP. Some have taken measures to do so, others haven't.

I'm pretty comfortable with the efforts we at Pink Visual/TopBucks have put in to combating and offsetting content piracy, really.

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Let's take a reality pill here please.

Online earnings/profits are falling.

The big guys don't make enough to start these type of lawsuits.

Some even have told me pirated content is like an advert for their site.

some people even believe piracy does not represent a lost sale.

Going after pirates in court is a very expensive business.

The likelihood of winning is slim.

There are hundreds of pirates to chase.

It's far cheaper to send out DMCAs even if they have little effect.

Going after the uploaders might be a better bet, but still more expensive than the return.

Most porn is cloned and stereotyped scenes. If one producer removes hot content is still leaves 1,000 other similar scenes out there for free.

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The answer to piracy lies in having something they can't compete with, appeals to the porn customer more and he's willing to buy.

I don't know what the industry has done but I hammer away with DMCA's, I've done some interesting things with videos (for new content) that seems to be keeping them off most the tubes for now. Injecting user date into photos seems to be keeping photo sets off boards. File hosting seems to be becoming less of an issue. So yea, I'm trying. It's a never ending work in progress.

You'll never beat the torrents but I believe people who use torrents are not consumers anyway. But you can beat most of the tubes and a lot of the file sharing. Not all, but a lot.

You're never going to beat piracy 100%. You can only reduce it. How much you reduce it is up to how outside the box you are able to think.

better close, run and cry