Your idea is good but I suggest stripping it down to only fighting pirates. A collective of producers who have a good legal team, employee full time DMCA staff AND hire existing DMCA services. I don't see any need for rules or guidelines with regards to our content (as long as it's all legal and 2257 compliant)
I think trying to get any producers to share ideas or marketing strategies would be a hard sell - like to trying to corral squirrels. Everyone is so proprietary and insulated when it comes to content creation.
To qualify to join all you would have to do is show that you have material that is being pirated and pay a monthly fee. As more members join then that fee could go down.
Legal and DMCA services would be distributed in a round robin format combined with some kind of formula based on who is being violated the worst.
The "Dark Arm" (I'm serious about this) would be a group of heavies and private investigators that employee similar tactics like Scientology does to harass and intimidate infringers who refuse to takedown (or move/hide servers) to avoid taking stolen content down.
All this could be done legally (although smashing hands with hammers would be fun) and would definitely work. Pirates would way rather steal from someone else rather than fuck with our syndicate.
This is long overdue and I will stake 10k right here and right now to get it started. Anyone else?
also these suggestions could be a key part of the long term strategy:
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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
Something like this should also be tied to Lobbying in Washington DC. The Adult Industry needs to Lobby Congress to change the DMCA laws. We need to fight on an economic level, making the case for copyright holders and lost revenue (taxes). Convince the Gov't a change in DMCA will benefit THEM (Congress) and it will happen.
A War needs to be fought on many fronts. Content producers are one front, legal action is another, Lobbying Congress is another, public awareness campaigns via social media is another, ad campaigns on mainstream sites and in the media is also needed.....
The problem? Everyone is too worried about their own shit to give a shit about "the Industry" other than on a philosophical level. What's REALLY needed is a "tax" on Adult where the monies would be used for the above ideas. Of course, who would control that money and get their dirty hands on it......LOL
GREAT idea OP - but difficult to implement. Doesn't mean it's not worth doing just that it would be difficult. But then again, the best things come from the hardest things. Good luck!
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