Piracy Did We Seal Our Own Fate?
 

Read the whole thing at http://www.mikesouth.com/mike-south-...own-fate-1849/

im gonna buy this guy a beer someday.

Capitalism is MEANT to make things better for the consumer. The adult industry isn't a monopoly, and thus capitalism works. Can't whinge about legitimate free porn too much, it's like telco's crying because they didn't collude on prices a long time ago.

he lives like 2 miles from me, come to atlanta and hang with us for a weekend :)

i would love to go to atlanta, its one of the few major cities i've never been to.

anytime my man, you are always welcome in my home

like wise man. :thumbsup

bring the misses and we'll go out and light up l.a. a few nights.

Get a room you two.

the dirrrty ATL

:1orglaugh

I dont know, is that article arguing that because there is so much content, thats why its being stolen?

I think the reason piracy is so strong is because of the ease in which the product can be stolen.

Look at software programs there are not hundreds of them produced every week, yet they are freely stolen because they can be transfered across the net easily.

Too much food in a supermarket is produced yet because the stealing is "in real life" and people get caught all the time it doesnt happen.

I agree with the article, but certainly dont think its the primary reason why piracy is so high.

It might not be the reason for piracy, but it sure is one of the reasons why sales are going down the drain.
But this biz had to go this way.

Startup costs are incredibly low. Webmasters need almost no skills at all. So do porn producers.

One of the most important rules of business was neglected: value creation is the key to success.
How can you sell something and create value when everybody can easily copy what you do?

The times where you could ask a girl to shoot pictures of her and get filthily rich of it are over.
Only businesses with innovative concepts that actually need skills to be set up will succeed.

Mike's worth reading but what he's saying really doesn't have much if anything to do with the piracy issue. He's contending that years of producing tons of content, both crappy and good, has left this huge pile of content, some of it orphaned that the pirates and surfers are filling up on and we're losing customers. Surfers and pirates tend to have good taste, what draws surfers to tube sites and torrents is quality content - reducing how much content is produced and distributed wouldn't make any difference to a Tube or torrent site or to surfers who use them. What is Mike's magic number for the quanity of content that should be produced and released yearly?

I know he comes from the DVD side of the business more than the web side and that side of the biz has contributed to its own ongoing demise. as we on the web side are now contributing to our own ongoing demise. the DVD side is just further into its death throes than us.

I just read the full article and it's nice to see him talk about value creation as well. :thumbsup

same sorry horseshit that has been rehashed a million times already.
give it a break.

Plenty of technology, no regulations, Internet is a fertile environment for cyber pirates. You can't rely on human nature to not steal. You need laws, and cops to enforce them.

Fear= respect.

They spit on your face because they don't fear you.

Old "catch me if you can" game.

A lot of "We let"'s in that article. Can't stop people from getting involved in an open market.

Glad y'all liked it, or didn't I dont write to make you agree with me I write to make you think.

The video end of this biz reduced the value of product to that of a street walking crack whore and they are now going to reap what they have sown

and airek...anytime yer in the A T L hit me up or email/call me if I can help ya in any way. I may be critical at times but you wont ever get an opinion from me that isnt honest.

I see the solution as highly niched and innovative content marketed in ways that limits piracy. See you at the flea market with my niche DVDs.

and take pictures for the world to see