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Old 05-17-2013, 09:52 PM  
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I think you are wrong. Most of the studios do want to protect their content; but, the efforts have been stifled by the entire DMCA process which is terminally flawed due to the lack of accountability given hosts who say "I have no control of the content on my tube site" while they profit from the sites with ad sales and exit traffic sales while hiding behind the DMCA shield and counting their stacks of cash. At the same time, the this piracy has killed DVD sales destroying the studio's alternative source of funding.

As long as the public believes that porn should be free on the internet and are willing to lobby their congressmen to kill legislation like SOPA and PIPA, nothing will change.

I think the long term prognosis is poor and maybe down right bleak for content production unless you are producing for your own tube sites. Many content production studios are already gone. You know who to blame...... I laugh and cry when I go to trade shows and see content producers and webmasters sucking tubes site and streaming sites owner's dicks and asking to be fucked in the ass for the chump change being offered for their content.

Nothing but thieves, fools and Judases in my opinion. But, we created this Frankenstein.......now, we sleep with it.
It's great to hear this from you. I don't know though. Probably 1/5th of my posts here since 2007 were about piracy. I increasingly feel that certain people think we're all assholes for speaking out about it. That we shouldn't rock the boat and should all just shut up and roll over like dogs.

I'm not going to write a book. I easily could but I honestly feel that many in this industry could have made a very big difference simply by speaking out more. You can say what you want but if a company or a certain person gets 1,000 replies to every message they post telling them to cut the crap it's going to have some sort of impact. The same if when they go to make a keynote speech they get two dozen people throwing eggs and pies at them. It feels to me as if most of the upper rungs in our industry have sold out. It goes far beyond not doing anything. We're talking about making pirates keynote speakers, removing incriminating evidence from public forums, banning people for speaking out and basically publicly condoning stealing.

That's fine. Nobody owes me anything. People may do as they want. But I only call it as I see it. It pisses me off to think of all the money I lost and all but in the end I'm not even a content producer. Others have far more skin in this game then I. If this is what people wanted then I guess they will get it.
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