The build up of the Adult Industry legal battle against piracy, tubes, and the sponsors that profit from piracy is going soon to explode wide open. The talk, hype, the Companies wanting to join the fight appears to be growing each day. I expect nothing but the best fireworks when this fuse is lit.But before our Industry runs out and starts suing the Internet, they may want to think about our Industry first, before they think of themselves.
Yes, fighting the legal fight often can have its rewards. Such is the case with Titan Media when they won $1.75 million against blog piracy but in the AVN article they also stated, “We are realistic, and we know the chances of collection on this default judgment are slim”.
Some situations require you to sue and protect yourself, even if you can’t get paid back.
Then other times, suing could be the cause of aiding piracy. How you say? I came across an article titled, BitTorrent use soars as MPAA fights on against P2P sites by arstechnica.com. The article shows and explains how the MPAA, RIAA and IFPI have taken a bite out of piracy, with several victories and enough lobby pressure that some pirate safe Countries my not be safe for much longer.
Then today from Techdirt, MPAA Decides Pullmylink.com Doesn’t Have Enough Publicity. Now as of a few seconds ago did you know of or ever hear of pullmylink.com? As the article says, “It’s a site I’ve never heard of, but thanks to a brand new lawsuit from the MPAA, plenty of people are learning all about the site.”
This may be the consequences of a legal fight. BigChampagne, a statistics and data tracking service for file sharing networks stated, “BitTorrent traffic has increased 24% since November 07.” Yes, some of the traffic increases are from other p2p network technology dieing off, but the real overall sharp increase happens because of…. Free Press!
That’s right, talking about Piracy, mostly the new and powerful Adult Tubes, is making them even more popular. From just about every Adult Webmaster forum to now surfer forums, emails, instant massagers, social networks, all of the Internet people are slowly starting to talk about Adult Tubes more and more.
At least this is staying within the tech driven - mature Internet market. But what do you think will happen when these major legal battles hit the mainstream press?
Even if a Judge forces the sued Tubes to go off line, the word “Tube” or “Adult Tube” will forever be branded into the new, millions upon millions of people. These are the possible surfers that aren’t tech savvy and are the millions of people we don’t want to know about Adult Tubes.
Once the papers and online mainstream media sources publish this information, the online social networks that don’t have adult, will now have “Adult Tubes” blasted all over. This virus will spread across the Internet, into small media sources, every social network, local news networks, email boxes, Christian sites, Cable Television and who knows what else.
I know this will create a massive amount of free publicity for Illegal Adult Tubes. So much free press they may be able to fund the fight back with the new increased earnings. With surfers loving the easy and safe homes of Tubes they will sure welcome them with open arms and all the publicity, it “will” motivate others to open more Pirated Sites. The idea of protecting your assets is quickly slipping through the cracks.
Not even the MPAA and RIAA have really put real a measurable dent into piracy, torrents, or p2p sites. But those hundreds of millions spent have successfully promoted the hell out of piracy methods.
So what is our little industry suppose to do?
Well I believe if we can take them out a different way, then don’t sue at all.
What are some other choices? We have plenty of them. The money spent on fighting piracy could be spent in ways to simply help control piracy rather than try and take on something 100 times larger than our Industry, and the music and movie industries combined.
We are an industry filled with people that have some amazing connections. Something to keep in mind.
- DMCA notices do work. Trying not sending threats or warnings, but just a direct email on exactly what the problem is and that you would like it removed. More often than not, this works.
- Most hosting companies will respond to DMCA Notices or force the client to respond.
- If the host doesn’t work, you can often apply pressure through the various backbones the hosting Companies use and the backbones those Companies use. This is one of the major problems email spammers have.
- Registrars and ICANN: Start working with them and finding out what we can do as an industry. Maybe if we have enough support, proof, or whatever is needed, we could get the domains closed down. This could help with International Piracy but may require a Judgment of some type first.
- As an Industry we can work together and talk with the search engines to remove Websites known to Pirate Adult Content. Showing the proof and an industry backing will produce results.
- Help educate others on how to correctly copyright and protect Movies and Pictures. Then learning the copyright publishing procedures for other major countries. Giving the content producer more power to correctly attack with.
- Educate our industry on DRM Solutions and the major changes it has gone through. When you Pirate or Crack a DRM protected movie, it becomes a CRIME in most developed nations. That’s a big step up from a Copyright complaint.
- Stop letting your members download movies and entire zip photo sets. Restrict what your Webmasters can use and the type of content given out. Limit the amount of Webmasters that can use and abuse your Members only content.
- Work with the Processors and Gateways, as a major group that use these companies we should pressure / lobby them to stop processing Adult Companies / Programs that are directly profiting from Piracy.
- If we can start working with the Processors, we can get our foot in the door with Visa/Mc more. Helping us expand to the individual banks that represent these companies profiting from Piracy.
My idea of this is a legal way to attack Piracy/Tubes without blasting them to every newsreader, television watcher, and radio listener in North America or the World. The amount of Money that will be spent to attack Piracy - could easily be spent to attack them in more logical ways - ways that won’t also benefit the entire Piracy Industry.
I’m all for attacking Piracy - I’m just not ready to give up my money to instantly promote Piracy/Tubes to a worldwide market. They get my content for free and then the publicity for free, and I get shafted out of lawyer bills and my content will still be pirated. Attacking from a different angle just makes more since to me.
My weekly 2 cents ~ TheDoc
