Pornguy - Agree 100% but six to seven years ago it could have been done as a preventative measure when companies were making money. Now it would be tough for any one company to fund that litigation. However a group of companies that can join together could do it.
The real issue is that most of the companies that could or would have done it are already - are now doing business with tubes so why bother. I still wonder if piracy was allowed to flourish in order to thin the herd of content producers. I find it hard to believe that no one saw it coming and didn't have a plan in place.
From Forbes... 2009
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/04/dig...ali-joone.html
"In 2008, Vivid dropped a lawsuit against PornoTube for copyright infringement after the site made efforts to clean up its content. Hirsch says PornoTube is now one of the tube sites Vivid is working with ?to develop business models ? that will be mutually profitable.? Profitability is a huge concern to studios, since pornography has not proven recession-proof in this climate of ?free.? DVD sales are especially hard hit."
My early post was wrong.. Vivid used 2257 against AEBN.