Piracy killing porn

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I thought I would just draw your attention to this article. At urabukkake.com we've been fully dedicated to bringing you high quality uncensored Japanese bukkake porn. To do this takes a shitload of time and investment, investment we must recoup in order to make more movies. A friend of mine in the industry folded this week. His material was spread through torrents and tubes and his sales collapsed. It was good shit! But it won't be made anymore, and so we all lose.



I'd just like to appeal to you all to please bear in mind that piracy is really destroying the porn business. Many big studios are drastically cutting back production and others have gone to the wall. Please support your porno producers and shun piracy. Please pay a little here and there for your porn. If this trend of porn piracy continues the industry will ultimately fail and all of us will be stuck with the same old pornos from years gone by!

Urabukkake.com will only be here making our super hot totally uncensored Japanese bukkake as long as we can remain in business. We can't do that if we get ripped off by torrents and tubes. 

OK, that's it. I will get off my soap box now!  I'm not naive enough to say you should boycott those sites. But please understand how the system works and help us to continue giving you your beloved awesome porn. Please support us facial fans!

Thanks for your understanding,

Semen Simon




By Amy Kaufman


Porn mogul Jay Quinlan really hates when people on the Internet steal his intellectual property. 

 At a panel this week at the “XBIZ State of the Industry Conference,” Quinlan, tattoo-covered vice president of a company that owns three adult entertainment pay Web sites, struggled to contain his anger over seeing videos from his pages being illegally posted on YouTube-esque porn hubs.

“The people stealing this stuff should be brought out to the back room and shot,” he said. “I mean, who wouldn’t want to watch free porn? I don’t think people are that picky about their masturbation habits. So every year that goes by now, there are new people – especially younger people – watching adult content who think that porn is free. And it’s not good.”

YouTube has an answer in the porn industry, and it’s called "Tube." Web sites like RedTube and PornHub allow users to upload and view an unlimited selection of mostly illegal porn videos for free, and it has devastated the porn industry.

The adult business, already struggling from free, user-generated porn on the Internet,  saw a 22 percent steep decline in DVD sales and rentals last year, more than twice that of Hollywood, according to a Hustler press release at the conference.

The issue hit mainstream media in December of 2007, when leading porn producer Vivid Entertainment Group filed a lawsuit against Porno Tube, alleging the site profited from its copyrighted material. Like with Napster, it made little difference.

The free sites are still wildly popular today. Alexa, a web information company that ranks the top global sites on the web by traffic, on Thursday had ranked YouPorn at #35 and RedTube at #49, both above CNN’s Web site, which was #50 and #72 Apple.com.

The adult entertainment business was once grudgingly acknowledged as a pioneering industry that led the way for innovations later emulated by Hollywood – first to adopt video, and first to embrace the Internet, among other things. Now the adult industry is being hit hard by piracy, and what happens could be a harbinger for Hollywood.

YouTube is littered with clips from film and television, but the clips posted on adult Tube sites are far more detrimental to for-profit porn producers. That’s because viewers of adult fare are more easily satisfied by a three-minute clip than perhaps a fan of “The Dark Knight” would be by a three-minute clip from that film.


About a year ago, it became evident that the rise of Tube sites could harm the industry in a big way. Illegal tube sites siphon content from various locations, putting it up to create traffic. Owners of these sites can make quick money by featuring advertising from dating websites or live-cam websites.

Lawrence G. Walters, a lawyer who deals with first amendment issues and is a partner with the largest firm focusing on adult entertainment clients, believes it would be effective to slap some of those downloading illegal content with lawsuits, much like the Recording Industry Association of America did up until recently to try and curb illegal music downloads.

“If someone got a letter from a law firm saying ‘we know you’re downloading free porn illegally from a website,’ I bet you’d have a lot more people paying money for porn and stopping illegal usage because most people don’t want to be sued publicly for something like porn,” Walters said. “Sure, there’s sympathy for the kid who downloads a few songs in his dorm room and gets sued by some big music company, but there’s not the same kind of sympathy for a guy downloading porn in his basement.”

But others like Stephen Yagielowicz, the managing editor of XBiz, say the hype over Tubes is overblown, noting that those who visit the sites aren’t the type of consumers who would pay for content anyway.

“The porn industry likes to have its boogeymen. Right now, that’s the Tube sites. People start to buzz, ‘Tubes are killing us – where can I get a good script?’” he said.

Yagielowicz believes that a majority of the Tube sites will soon shut down because the cost of running them and paying for their large bandwidths can be up to hundreds of thousands of dollars – money that isn’t being recouped by a couple of ads.

“If people really want to make money off of porn on the Internet, they need to realize that porn is a non-essential product,” he said. “So what else can I offer you on my page? You have to monetize the eyeballs. I think a lot of the larger Tubes will start aggregating social networks and niche user communities, developing into pay sites by adding membership and adding value at an upsell.”


News source: www.thewrap.com/media/article/internet-piracy-killing-porns-profits-1394

 

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  • 1/4/2011 8:22 PM TLC wrote:
    good luck to u.. hope u keep making bukkake!!
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  • 1/6/2011 4:25 PM dame edna wrote:
    hmm tricky one. i want my adult movies. we all want freebies and will continue taking it as long as it is out there yeah? reckon the law has to change before anything happens
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