So... why is it okay to pirate porn?

[D0WNT0WN]

My opinion is not supported by the Escapist, therefore I can't give you my answer. Hooray for censorship!

I am also in this boat, the Escapist does not let me give my opinion on pirating without a swift banning. The Hypocracy is astounding.

 

[LilithSlave]

Pfffffffffft hahahaha. Oh, this is rich.

Oh, anti-piracy is so spiffing, indeed.

For the record, the only porn I look at is yaoi. And I pay for my yaoi.

But watching that video, anti-piracy truly is the most hilarious thing.

 

[Biodeamon]

two words:why the hell not?

plus i don't really feel quite too much sympathy for them anyway, i'm not much of a porn person myslef...

 

[Thunderous Cacophony]

I don't know how many people actually pirate porn. As Alterego-X brought up, "titties are post-scarcity". While movies often have massive budgets, casts and sets that clearly identify them and can be used as the basis for copyright lawsuits, anyone can make a porn video or go on the internet and find literally tens of thousands of amateur videos which are mostly indistinguishable from high-budget ones (after all, there are only so many ways to do the deed).

But more importantly, porn companies are cutting edge . They know they can't beat the pirates of the world, so they come at the problem from a new way. They upload clips of a certain length to websites that give them a cut of the ad revenue. Should the person decide to buy the full video, everything is great; if not, the company still gets some money.

Porn is always at the front of new media (like printing, VHS, CDs, etc.) because it is something that nearly everyone will want to get at some point, but that the government does not really want to protect. In a few years, I expect that regular media companies will follow suit (Comedy Network, among others, already does) .

This is so true, it's funny. I actually chuckled. Reminds me of the Cracked article about how the world is secretly run by porn.

Tits and Guns. Tens of thousands of years of evolution and history, and still nothing motivates us more than tits and guns...

...which we will one day combine in the greatest invention in the history of man:

Spoiler

The fabled tit-gun

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

No, seriously.
Torrent a movie, music or video game? "Scum of the earth!"

I resemble that remark.

 

[FalloutJack]

The internet is for porn.

(Thank you, Avenue Q!)

 

[Alterego-X]

I do not have any data or so, so again, purely intuition, but my guess is that most just stream porn and do not download it. In many countries this is a grey zone legally or just does not get persecuted and I guess most people share the intuition that streaming something is not as bad as downloading.

Protip: You can't stream something without downloading it. Just as right now, you ust downloaded this escapist page, when you watch a streaming video, you download it it. The only difference is that you are not saving it on your hard drive.

 

[xedi]

@Alterego-X: I know, but it is a legal difference in many countries and many see streaming also not as bad because you do not have it permanently and you do not have a way to upload it to someone else.

I also agree with the points mentioned by some people here, that people just do not think it is something worthwhile protecting, because there will always be amateur porn so even if we gonna destroy the porn industry (I think the opposite is happening), then there still would be people uploading their own stuff for free legally.

 

[FatalFox]

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heres a thought, if their not worth your money, why are they worth your time?
Just a thought

I won't even say the paid porn it's worth my time, remember how I said paid porn usually sucks for me? so I don't watch it. Porn that I label as worth my time usually don't have a paid service attached to it, because it's usually stuff people upload themselves as home made.

 

[FatalFox]

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heres a thought, if their not worth your money, why are they worth your time?
Just a thought

I won't even say the paid porn it's worth my time, remember how I said paid porn usually sucks for me? so I don't watch it. Porn that I label as worth my time usually don't have a paid service attached to it, because it's usually stuff people upload themselves as home made.

i don't care about the porn, that industry can look after itself. No i was focusing on the games part. If their not worth your money then they shouldn't be worth your time. Thats the double standard i take issue with.

Oh, I see, well they're mostly for games I don't find demo's for, games I'd like to try out, if I enjoy em, I buy em, if not, then eh, no pocket-money spent.
When I don't think the games are worth my money, they're usually (if not always) not worth my time either, sorry if I wrote it weirdly at first.

 

[Fat Hippo]

Double Post, sorry.

 

[Fat Hippo]

I thought we were talking about pirate porn

swab my poopdeck with yer seamen!

Well, thanks for that bit of mental imagery. Should have me chuckling for a few days to come.

Arr maties, fire in the hole! Let's board this here fine lady of the sea and plunder her booty, arr!

the porn industry doesn't throw you in prison for 50 years.

Well, if they do, then it's probably a fetish thing.

 

[CODE-D]

Because theyre not greedy I guess and can admit, hey we make a whole lot for not a lot of hard work.

Why do people keep starting threads with So..., its not like we're awkwardly changing the subject from something else. Why Put So...., it confounds me so.

 

[targren]

The porn industry doesn't run it's own copyrights inquisition like the software and music businesses do. And I imagine most porn producers could care less, while they see the money pouring on despite free distribution of their work, just like is happening to producers of music and software.

Oh, I'm sure they care. They just know that while many, many people enjoy their product, fewer will risk admitting it by ruling for them on a jury, and they can't buy their own laws since the politicians are the same way.