Porn Industry To Put The Squeeze On BitTorrent Users
Torrent Freak reported on a conference by 65 players in the porn industry who want to do something about internet piracy. Unlike the music industry and it’s heavy handed enforcer, the RIAA, the porn industry hasn’t tried to address piracy until now.
According to attorney Greg Piccionelli:
“The lack of enforcement over the years has left the pirates and consumers with the impression that copying and stealing adult content is something that has absolutely no punitive consequence associated with it whatsoever, and so the industry has really sort of dug its own grave to this degree”
It is estimated that only 15-20% of porn in people’s homes is legitimate. In an industry worth $50 billion, that’s a lot of lost revenue.
At my old ISP I used to sign the cheques for our in-house Usenet servers. The usage profile over the course of the day told a quite telling picture, and it was fairly obvious that the majority of use was for porn. Not only could we see which groups were being accessed the most, but there was always a massive spike at 11pm for one hour.
What was happening was that our more technical users who tended to the Usenet users, were coming home from the pub (they close at 11pm in the UK) by themselves (again) and were all jumping onto our Usenet servers looking for a bit of ‘inspiration’. The techies had a special name for this ‘hour’. I won’t repeat it as this is a family site, but lets just say that it rhymed with banking.
It’ll be interesting to see if the porn industry will create a body similar to the RIAA to name and shame users. I imagine that if they did it would be very effective like the schemes they have in certain areas of the UK where they post photos of kerb crawlers on billboards, to drive them away. I’d imagine if BitTorrent/Usenet users were worried about their names appearing somewhere in print, they’d think twice about downloading ‘Topless Polish Women In Tights XI’.
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Comment by joey on 13 September 2007:
The pornsters seek to erect legal barriers for their wares? May as well get the whores and pimps a legalized guild while they’re at it. Maybe certification too.
Geez
Comment by Aldimeola on 13 September 2007:
I dons’t sugges tihs comments
Comment by Yigit T. on 13 September 2007:
woow there is high money in porn industry
LOL
Comment by Micah on 13 September 2007:
$50 billion is a lot of money, I am actually surprised it isn’t more though. It’s so addictive, people end up paying a lot of money to get what they want. Kind of like drugs. That’s kind of funny there was 1 hour of such high usage.
Comment by Bush Mackel on 14 September 2007:
I HEARD someone on the radio say “Why would ANYONE pay for porn nowadays?” I guess no one does!
Comment by abhishek on 16 September 2007:
$50 billion thats way more than one expects.I wonder what will be the actual turnover when they crack piracy.
Cheers
Abhishek
Comment by Mathew Browne on 4 October 2007:
I am astounded that the estimate is as high as 10-20%.
Not that I’m an expect of porn or anything.
Comment by dan from redtube on 25 December 2007:
well i hope they dont, love porn.