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ORIGINAL: WellShinedBoots Porn Piracy - Wired 2010 Reading that article, dated April 29th, 2010, it says DVD sales are down by a third, and the author equates "tube" porn sites with malware infections, yet, they hedge by saying they don't have credible figures (which was the same problem I mentioned in the first post of this thread). The article says the future is that the porn companies will begin "fingerprinting" the videos within a few months (of 4/2010, so presumably they have done so by now) and that they'll file lawsuits. In my experience, the porn industry USES the porn sites to PROPAGATE their style of porn, at least the big companies do. Try, for example, to find a full-length Queensnake fetish film, for example. Try. Really. I dare you. (For those who don't know, Queensnake is a genre where thin gorgeous women realistically (here, realistic means it's not faked) torture other thin gorgeous women with hot pepper up the anus, rubber bands pulled three feet and then snapped on tits with sharp metal barbs on the end, stun guns on wide open shaved pussies, bb guns where the yellow BBs lodge in every crevice on the woman's body, sharp tacks shoved inside a pussy, glass shards shoved in a pussy, and so on (you get the point). While you may find a full-length Queensnake movie or two on the entire Internet, what you're far more likely to find is thousands upon thousands of one-minute to two-minute snippets, quickly snapping your head back and forth between vignettes of what I described above. Clearly, Queensnake is astroturfing the market, and they are just as clearly very effective in removing their payware from the same marketplace. Likewise, you'll find the same phenomenon, to a lesser extent than the queen of them all, with Kink.com, the old Insex, the EP and Lupus Films, etc., where you're far more likely to see a two-minute teaser from Kink.com than the real thing. As for DVD sales being down by a third in 2010, I'm not surprised. When is the last time you BOUGHT a DVD anyway? I haven't bought one in years, and I never bought a porn DVD in my life. Having said all that, you are probably still correct in that maybe all those tens of thousands of porn videos (including fetish porn) are pirating someone else's copyrighted material. If that's the case, you would think it would be EASY for the authorities to shut down the web sites, one by one, starting the giants, just as the Attorney General for NY ruined the Usenet by talking AT&T, Yahoo, Comcast, etc. into dropping NNTP because of a the thread of lawsuits for users posting an absolutely puny amount of kiddie porn (which I'm sure existed - but - it killed the entire Usenet for all those companies - which simply dropped their nntp servers - 99.9999999% of which had nothing to do with kiddie porn). If it was so easy for the AG of NY to shut down every Usenet server run by a large company, then it would be within their power to shut down large porn web site aggregators. As for how the "tube" porn aggregators make their money - I don't really know. 1. They could be somehow getting customers (but almost all don't even ASK for money) 2. They almost certainly are all selling advertisements (which, for me, I never see, but I'm an experienced computer professional) 3. They could be secretly infecting the customer (I take precautions - but no computer is infallible - as Snowden aptly showed) All I know is that you can type "sex with plumbers" in any of those tube sites, and get literally hundreds of different porn films, most in the all-important 10 to 20 minute range, which means that somebody is MAKING those films, somebody else is WATCHING those films, and, somehow, somebody is making MONEY (somehow) on those films. There is clearly an unmet need for porn films about sex with plumbers (and various other topics, as covered above). Why the great need? Is the answer as simple as we humans require variety in our sexual lives?
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