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Obscene Losses
Portfolio.com ^ | November 2007 Issue | Claire Hoffman

Posted on 10/23/2007 9:40:21 AM PDT by Lorianne

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Synopsis via Slate: An article in the November issue of Portfolio reveals the undoing of the pornography industry, primarily at the hands of a free-porn site called YouPorn. The decline of DVD sales makes the porn world's struggle "directly analogous to what's happening to the music industry, but worse."—D.S.
1 posted on 10/23/2007 9:40:22 AM PDT by Lorianne
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To: Lorianne

There is a free YouPorn site available? Now we all can enjoy universal porn. Wonder what this will do for Dem campaign fund raising?


2 posted on 10/23/2007 9:46:42 AM PDT by Jigajog
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"Wonder what this will do for Dem campaign fund raising?"

Heck, what will the 'rats be left to provide free for the voters? Nobody will be interested in gov't services anymore, they'll be glued to the 'net.

3 posted on 10/23/2007 9:57:43 AM PDT by Paladin2 (We don't fix the problem, we fix the blame!)
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You hit on something there.... If the porn purveyors can’t make any money off porn because its being given away, there won’t be the millions available to keep throwing fundraisers for the leading Dem candidates. Who else will Meathead keep getting to fill out all those tables at Hillarys constant birthday celebrations?


4 posted on 10/23/2007 9:58:22 AM PDT by bpjam (Harry Reid doesn't even have 32% of my approval)
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To: Lorianne
He shared his vision of turning YouPorn into a “very cool brand, perhaps the Virgin of adult entertainment.”

Sometimes the jokes just write themselves.

I'm surprised that there isn't a porn NetFlix out there. You order the DVD, it arrives in the mail, you watch it and send it back. PornNetFlix then disinfects the DVD and sends it to the next person asking for it.

5 posted on 10/23/2007 10:05:16 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
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To: Lorianne

So in essence, its a spin off on the old saying “Why buy the cow, when you can get the milk for free?”


6 posted on 10/23/2007 10:06:14 AM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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To: KarlInOhio
I'm surprised that there isn't a porn NetFlix out there. You order the DVD, it arrives in the mail, you watch it and send it back. PornNetFlix then disinfects the DVD and sends it to the next person asking for it.

Right. And they could save money by using only those mini-DVD's, after all, those hold about 30 minutes of video, who needs more?

7 posted on 10/23/2007 10:07:47 AM PDT by Paradox (Politics: The art of convincing the populace that your delusions are superior to others.)
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Only 12 percent of the site’s traffic comes from the U.S., he said.

Sad to see that we're outsourcing pr0n but they're only, ah, doing the...er, stuff...that Americans won't...oh, never mind.

8 posted on 10/23/2007 10:11:08 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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It’s not really like the music industry problem. There aren’t a plethora of “amateur bands” out making music and posting it, and consumers aren’t flocking to crappy amateur music instead of well-produced professional albums.

The music industy’s problem is that people are stealing their intellectual property and setting up sites to give it away.

The PORN industry’s problem is that porn doesn’t have to be professional, and in fact many people seem to enjoy it more when it seems real, rather than faked. Once the porn industry saw how much money they could make selling DVDs of amateurs having sex, they should have realised they were “screwed”.

After all, at that point they were simply distributers of a product that can easily be distributed directly through the web at virtually no cost.

So if people are willing to not get paid, they can produce and distribute porn for free, at no cost to themselves.

The Porn industry’s only hope seems to be to pass laws severely restricting easy access to on-line porn. They need laws that heavily regulate who can appear in a video, like proof of age, proof of protection, regular medical exams. They need a minimum wage law for appearing in movies, they need web sites to be forced to restrict access to people who prove they are 18, and to restrict videos to those who have spent big bucks to prove the actors are all legal and willing.

In other words, all the stuff the Porn industry has been fighting for years, was the only thing that would save them.


9 posted on 10/23/2007 10:13:36 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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KarlInOhio: I'm surprised that there isn't a porn NetFlix out there. You order the DVD, it arrives in the mail, you watch it and send it back. PornNetFlix then disinfects the DVD and sends it to the next person asking for it.

There is such a "service". I read about it once. Don't recall the name of it or the cost or anything (not a fan of the stuff myself), but it does exist. There are services for video games, too.

Ewwwwwwwwww your comment re: disinfecting

10 posted on 10/23/2007 10:20:03 AM PDT by mountainbunny
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There is...

Just put "porn netflix" into a search engine. There are several such services.
11 posted on 10/23/2007 10:26:09 AM PDT by Codeflier (Implement Loser Pays)
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To: Paladin2

I remember back in 2000 that a newspaper article said that the distributors at a porn convention (in Atlanta?) all agreed that they would try to help elect Al Gore.


12 posted on 10/23/2007 10:26:32 AM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: CharlesWayneCT; Lorianne
In other words, all the stuff the Porn industry has been fighting for years, was the only thing that would save them.

One might even say they are "hoist by their own 'petard'"... /grin

13 posted on 10/23/2007 10:34:17 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Yep. Just like Indian Gaming paying off congresscritters to ban online gaming.


14 posted on 10/23/2007 10:35:31 AM PDT by lesser_satan (READ MY LIPS: NO NEW RINOS | FRED THOMPSON '08)
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To: Lorianne

We learn so much useful stuff on FR. :)


15 posted on 10/23/2007 10:44:53 AM PDT by Schnucki
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We learn so much useful stuff on FR. :)

As always, there seem to be a lot of expets on this this thread :)

16 posted on 10/23/2007 11:00:50 AM PDT by Born Conservative (Chronic Positivity - http://jsher.livejournal.com/)
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To: Lorianne

I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. Serves the Flynt wanna-bes right, but it’s just making porn that much more easy, free and enormously widely distributed... and easier to access for children.


17 posted on 10/23/2007 11:11:38 AM PDT by pianomikey (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
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In other words, all the stuff the Porn industry has been fighting for years, was the only thing that would save them.

Fairly common in industries where any schmoe can deliver a similar product, to want government to step in to regulate it. I remember Maine crab fishing lobbies attempting to regulate and restrict private enterprises out of existence.

There is an interesting spice of irony that the porn industry's best chance to protect itself is to support changes that would do the most to protect children, both from exploitation and from consuming adult entertainment.

18 posted on 10/23/2007 11:30:58 AM PDT by pianomikey (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
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“Ewwwwwwwwww your comment re: disinfecting”

That was the entire point of the post, I’m sure ;) Good joke, tho


19 posted on 10/23/2007 11:32:09 AM PDT by pianomikey (Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. -Reagan)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

I don’t want to disagree with your general point, but why would you say that there aren’t a plethora of “amateur bands” out there? That’s exactly what the situation is. With full access to the CD replication business and no overlords to support or cater to, there are thousands of independent artists making good money in the music business. Go to CDbaby.com or diskmakers to get a feel for how big, and how lucrative this business is.

The decline of the music industry is at the Titan-end of the food chain, not for little-guy performers who are prospering and reveling in their access to nationwide audiences.


20 posted on 10/23/2007 11:41:45 AM PDT by VaFarmer
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