Porn biz hopes to completely squelch online porn piracy by 2012
Uh, I found this… somewhere. I think it fell off the back of a truck.
The music industry, the software industry, the movie industry and television have all had to worry about piracy and get serious about trying to combat piracy and to redevelop their revenue models to keep up. The porn industry’s probably been hit harder, longer and deeper than any other, and they’re finally getting together to try and figure out what to do about it.
To that end, a company called Pink Visual rounded up a huge collection of porn studios and lawyers for a “content protection retreat” (CPR) in Tucson last week, one designed to get the industry working together on an anti-P2P strategy. CPR was designed to “revive” the business, and backers hope hope they can “significantly reduce digital piracy of adult content and to effectively drive those who engage in adult content piracy completely underground by January 2012.”
The event was secretive enough that the location and agenda weren’t revealed publicly, but we do know that lawyers engaged in widespread “Doe” litigation against anonymous file-swappers were present to make their case. These firms included Media Copyright Group, the Minneapolis/Chicago company that recently brought large-scale porn litigation to the heartland.
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