The Pornographers vs. The Pirates

[BJ_M]

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"BusinessWeek has a piece on how pornography is again leading the way and showing Holywood how to fight back against piracy. From the article: 'Some producers of porn are starting to share revenues from online movies with the distributors of their DVDs, who might otherwise feel endangered by digital distribution online. Bolder yet, one large studio is allowing fans who buy movies online to burn them from their computers onto DVDs, with some protections included, of course.'"

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_25/b3989088.htm

[ROF]

hmmm . . Sex Sells?

[caernavon]

Once again -- pornography, leading the way. Is there nothing it can't accomplish?

[computerchuck]

any available on HDDVD?

[ROF]

yes.

[handyguy]

I never found a XXX video that has copy protection on it.

30 new XXX films come out every day.

[ROF]

I never found a XXX video that has copy protection on it.

30 new XXX films come out every day.

only 30?

Ever been on the internet?

[BJ_M]

i would think that it would be more like 30 every hour

[jntaylor63]

Hollywood USA would NEVER copy a pron business model! Even if it made then more $$$$

[garryheather]

You've probably got the porn industry to thank for the "Angle" button on your remote...

[zoobie]

ICANN just rejected the .xxx extension...er...

[Seeker47]

You've probably got the porn industry to thank for the "Angle" button on your remote...

Not to mention Zoom . . . .

[BJ_M]

and pause

[lordsmurf]

I wonder what MARK TWAIN would say.

He is quoted as having said or written: "Naked people have little or no influence on society."

[Nitemare]

"Hollywood USA would NEVER copy a pron business model! Even if it made then more $$$$"

"(I wonder what MARK TWAIN would say.

He is quoted as having said or written: "Naked people have little or no influence on society.")"

It was the porn industry's adoption of the VHS format that destroyed any chance that Betamax had of gaining significant market share. While this is more of a consumer choice, Hollywood DID abandon Betamax along with everyone else.

Regards,
Nitemare

[Seeker47]

"It was the porn industry's adoption of the VHS format that destroyed any chance that Betamax had of gaining significant market share.
Nitemare

I think your history is a bit off here. There was a tremendous amount of porn released on Beta, for some time. What happened was that Sony shot themselves in the foot with some very bad business decisions, involving licensing and sharing proprietary stuff. (A bit like what happened with early Apple vs. IBM PC.) It was not a totally "closed architecture" as with Mac, and Beta hardware did ultimately come out under other mfr. brands (a few), but they were late and slow off of the starting block. By then, VHS was ubiquitous, coming out from every video gear mfr., at every price point they could make it.