Dealing With Copyright Online: Porn v. Music 340
zzled writes "The New York Times (registration required, etc.) has an article on the porn industry's take on filesharing / copyright infringement. 'Many companies that distribute X-rated material say they do not worry too much about consumers sharing among themselves; they often unleash their lawyers only when someone is trying to profit by copying their goods and trying to sell them.' ... The article isn't particularly brilliant or insightful, but was an interesting read, especially with the explicit comparison to the approach taken by the music and movie industries."
Porn Sharing (Score:5, Funny)
Your Honour. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:4, Funny)
Pretty good analysis, but once you got to (c) you exceeded the attention span of the average consumer and music industry executive.
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:5, Funny)
RIAA take note... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Free samples are a must for content sellers (Score:3, Funny)
subtle differences b/w pr0n and music (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Smart (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Porn Sharing (Score:5, Funny)
The Real Lessons here... (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, yeah. Too late.
I never thought I would be able to say this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:4, Funny)
Damn.
Porno Muzak !! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Pornographers are criminals already anyway (Score:5, Funny)
Corruption of minds? You obviously haven't seen some of the porn I've seen. More like comedy, with the wooden acting and unbelievable plots.
If it's not an "honest job or enterprise", how does it make money? Obviously, there's a demand, and they fill it..... (ba-dum-dum!)
Re:Laying Low (Score:5, Funny)
There's also the small matter of economics. The porn producers could spend $50,000 prosecuting one of thier consumers, or they could spend that amount to make five new movies.
Re:Laying Low (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah but... (Score:3, Funny)
Who the fuck listens to pr0n?
LK
Porn vs Music? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yeah but... (Score:3, Funny)
Busted for downloading porn (Score:5, Funny)
The good thing however is I ordered a premium cable package where they uncapped my modem. When the cable company reactivated my account, my cable modem was still uncapped but I am paying for the basic cable price! That $75 will have paid itself off in 2 months!
A foot? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of the Simpsons episode where Homer wouldn't let go of the candy bar in the vending machine until they were ready to cut his arm off.
Re:RIAA take note... (Score:5, Funny)
Dear god, someone think of the sanity of the users. I mean, every once in a while someone's accidently falls for a forged email by sheer bad luck and a bad situation. ( forged subject line containing something you are interested in and a faked sender with a name you recognize... ) Now, last time I saw a spam mail it contained some nice pictures of 7 men ... "enjoying" eachother's company on a Monday morning. Nothing too bad really. Now, imagine waking up one Monday morning, logging on and instead of 7 men yanking eachother's crank and/or enjoying a ride up the rectal railroad, you get hit with a Britney Spears MP3. :(
Think of the kids as well and how we are to explain it all! I can explain why men like other men. I can NOT explain why Britney Spears is famous and rich.
Re:Laying Low (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:2, Funny)
now, what was he talking about?
Re:Pornographers are criminals already anyway (Score:5, Funny)
The acts performed in a lot of porno are not necessarily acts which it is a great pleasure to perform.
They are not intended to feel good for the participants (who get paid to do it); they are intended to make money. Sex is essentially a tactile thing, not primarily visual.
To make money it has to look good. We don't have 'feelies' yet.
The sort of sex act that feels good may well not look good on camera. Duh.
What happens if its presented in such a way that a *LOT* of people wind up thinking that this is what sex really is?
Unwittingly, they join the Voluntary Human Extinction Project [vhemt.org] since these 'sex acts' are almost always non-reproductive; semen is usually deposited on some external surface. Think of it as a 'Catholic' guide to birth control.
Pro-wrestling is similar. Except with less bodily fluids. How many pro wrestling fans draw on what they see in 'the ring' as a benchmark for their internal model of physics? Their estimate of what happens to a person when a chair is broken across their back, for example? Maybe people arn't that dumb.
However, in both cases, I think theres an underlying dishonesty.
I could have got human stupidity all wrong, of course.
Beware the PIAA!! (Score:2, Funny)
"When you pirate porn, your not just hurting the Jenna Jamesons, you hurting the fluffers, the camermen, the spooge moppers......"
The Piracy Of Porno-Melody ? (Score:1, Funny)
If the music industry has its way, with the help of the porn industry, we will soon find that royalty-police will go after those who moans and shouts during orgasms.
Moans like "deeper!" "harder!" "aaaaahhhh!" "Ooooooooh!" and even those slurpy sounds will soon be copyrighted nobody have the right to maon anymore unless you pay RIAA in advance !
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:1, Funny)
Funny things make me laugh!
It just goes to show (Score:5, Funny)
It just goes to show. When you put porn and music together, bow chicka-bow-bow...
Screw that... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The real math of filesharing (Score:1, Funny)
- son
Re:11gb? (Score:5, Funny)
No I don't. I still have over 22 GB free.
LK
i hope you're not a milfhunter fan then (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Of Dollars and Dildos (Score:2, Funny)