Porn and audience exploitation

[darkeyes]

I am not and never have been a great watcher of porn... it is not something which has very often had the juices flow and is not something I have used to spice up my sex life, now or in the past. But I am relatively ignorant of the porn industry but know that a fair bit of exploitation has always gone on and probably always shall.. no I am not for banning it, but it seems some of the major exploiters of porn artists are viewers of porn themselves.. this little gem from the Guardian is the first time it has dawned on me and it has parallels in both the music and film industries, but for those who work inthe porn industry, much more serious consequences...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/05/how-internet-killed-porn

I am so pleased I turned down that 500 quid in Amsterdam...:eek2:

[Long Duck Dong]

over the years the rise of amateur porn has been quiet but more of a serious threat to the porn industry than I think they realised......

one of the former big guns of NZ porn became a victim of internet porn fees..... customers signed up with their credit cards, downloaded a heap of porn, then had the charges reversed,.... he bitched about no longer making 100K a week from his porn sites.... a few years later, his entire porn business went under and again he bitched about the amateur porn movement and access to free / pirated porn online and how it ruined his business....

some of the amateur porn that I have seen posted in the site here, has been more watchable than some of the expensive crap that they call professional porn...its free.... and its more bloody believable then many of the porn storylines I have seen.....

viva la amateur porn and those that use and enjoy the freedom of the press, speech and sites like xtube and hamster....

[æonpax]

What’s big now is custom made porn for high-end rollers, especially those from China, the Arabian Peninsula and India. They are big into graphic BDSM but like it weaved into a believable story, which all depends on the budget….of course. Not that I look, but to my knowledge, I haven’t heard of any “private stash” gone public, leastways in the P2P and “one-click hosting” world…


Rule 34 applies here - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Rule%2034


…speaking of which, the article never mentioned the torrents by name but neither did they mention 4-Chan.

The MPAA and RIAA having been trying to clamp down hard on file sharing sites like TPB, world-wide. To some extent, with the MPAA, I can understand but with the RIAA, I have absolutely no sympathy. They are clinging to old technology and an industry system used to paying the artists pennies on CD’s starting in price at $12, US. so their executives can make mega-millions.