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Originally Posted by SZNY
Maybe there is some way to strike back in a collective way.
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I think the problem that's always existed with that idea (and the idea of any large scale collaboration) is it requires someone to step up as official Poster Boy for porn. If not, then we all just go on doing our own things because you know, we've all got shit to do. But who wants to be Poster Boy?
Compared to industries like, being an actor or a writer or even blue collar workers, we are wild fucking animals. Actors have all kinds of shit to keep them connected and focused as a unit. Writer's Guild and various organizations they all belong to. Hell, plenty of industries have unions or interest groups or memberships that watch out for them or lobby for them or set guidelines that all the players must play by?. that kind of shit.
We, the porn biz.... are wild fucking animals. Nobody cooperates with anyone beyond the daily deals we do. If there's any kind of membership or organization to anything that represents "the adult industry", I've certainly never heard of it. I don't know that anyone has ever even tried to form such a thing for people in porn.
This is what I mean. It starts with a poster boy and an idea. So who's gonna step up? And how do you get anyone to actually join up?
And consider the adversary. Screen Writer's Guild may be a union that protects their wages or whatever the fuck it is they do, but our enemy is essentially, non-centralized global digital pirates. Not generally accepted upstanding work contracts. It's a faceless, locationless plague. That's not easy to kill. It would require a serious
force to do anything, whether it's through some kind of legislation, or some sort of straight up digital pimp style retribution or whatever...
The other side of the coin is, ourselves. How do you get everyone to cooperate and play by the same rules and play nice together? If a member violates the rules, then what? Tell him he can't do business any more?
Either way, I see it as a highly unlikely thing that you would collect more than a handful of people.
Most of us prefer to stay anonymous. (well, as much as possible, like
not ending up on the landing page feature module on CNN)