Originally Posted by justinsain

If intellectual property was protected there wouldn't be any piracy

Before the internet the usual media outlets like newspapers and magazine publishers wouldn't dare use and publish intellectual property without permission from its rightful owner. There is no way someone could scan a bunch of images from a magazine and give or sell it to another magazine and that magazine publish them. There would be severe penalties and no problem enforcing them.

If today's website owners were held to the same standards of those magazine publisher which BTW still adhere to those rules, the game would change dramatically and the adult industry would benefit greatly.

The ease of copy and distribution, the user upload loop hole, different laws for different countries and a world wide connection really crushed that protection the media enjoyed before the internet. As I said before, if and when they find a way to once again protect mainstream intellectual property from being abused on the internet porn will also benefit from the same laws.

Originally Posted by justinsain

The whole user submitted, DMCA BS is a huge loop hole that allows site owners to use stolen intellectual property without repercussion.

Make the site owner RESPONSIBLE for everything on their site just as a magazine publisher is responsible for everything between its covers. Just doing that would allow intellectual property owners to use the laws available to them to their best advantage. Then a site owner would have two choices, pay up front for legitimate content or pay out their ass in a civil lawsuit.