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Owner59 -> RE: Lawsuit seeks to outlaw "free porn" (12/11/2007 9:59:02 AM)
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ORIGINAL: subfever
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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
the site wants me to register. arragant- so I will wait.
Yeah... that sucks.
Hey Owner, why don't you copy and paste the text here. Many of us won't want to register for an out-of-town newspaper.
I got a Mod note for pasting whole articles.Here`s a few paragraphs.
A major porn producer filed a lawsuit Monday against an X-rated knockoff of YouTube, alleging that it profited from piracy by allowing its users to post videos that include copyrighted material.
The suit is apparently the first of its kind in the adult film industry, which has done a better job than the major Hollywood studios in finding ways to profit from putting entertainment products on the Internet.
But in the last year or so, the rapid increase in consumption of all manner of videos on the Web has in some ways hurt the porn producers more than the mainstream companies because consumers of adult fare often get what they are looking for in clips of five minutes or less. Free short clips are easy to find on the Web, undercutting the established porn producers, which earn most of their money from long-form videos.
"We've decided to take a stand and say 'no more,' " Vivid co-Chairman Steven Hirsch said. "We will go after all the free sites."
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