09.10.07
Porn Industry to Take on BitTorrent Sites
Piracy is becoming a serious problem for the adult industry. It is estimated that 5% of all files being shared on public BitTorrent trackers are adult content, and most of these files are copyrighted. On top of that, sites such as Empornium, PureTnA and Cheggit solely focus on sharing porn and are among the most popular private BitTorrent trackers on the Internet.
In an attempt to stop these sites from spreading their content the porn industry organized an anti-piracy conference. Andrew Blake, one of the 65 adult industry representatives at the conference and director of Studio A Entertainment: #8220;What I#8217;m getting out of this [conference] is that this is so pervasive, and we all kind of laughed when they came for the record industry – #8216;Eh, couldn#8217;t touch us#8217; – but here it is, a lot of people on the verge of extinction almost, from a business point of view.#8221;
The adult industry representatives that took part in the three hour anti-piracy session estimated that they lose approximately $2 billion a year thanks to piracy, about 4% of their total income worldwide. The main consensus was that P2P networks, and BitTorrent in particular, posed the greatest threat to the porn industry.
Greg Piccionelli, a Los Angeles based attorney with a professional interest in porn,
There are also more amateuristic ideas to fight porn piracy. For example, Megan Stokes from Shane#8217;s World announced that they are launching a forum where content owners can post screenshots of pirated content. Somehow Stokes
To be continued.
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