French Porn Execs: Ignore Piracy, Focus On Quality; Japanese Porn Execs: Sue Everyone

from the a-bit-of-a-split dept

It seems that the porn world has had a "love/hate" affair with file sharing. Over the years, we've seen stories of porn film makers embracing piracy to their advantage, and others complaining about it. It's really not all that different than the rest of the entertainment industry. So, it should come as no surprise that different porn execs are responding quite differently in two recent stories. First, comes the news that Japanese porn film producers are looking to sue 65,000 people in South Korea for uploading. That's about double the number of people that the RIAA sued in the US for uploading. Wow.

Meanwhile, reader PrometheeFeu alerts us to quite a different story in France, where industry execs are taking a much more reasonable view on things (article in French, translation provided by PrometheeFeu). The execs admit that it doesn't make sense to try to keep things from users:
"Today all of our new productions simultaneously come out in DVD, download and streaming on our website and on our partner's VOD platforms. Back then, we looked at the music market as an example of what not to do and how to react"
And they know piracy happens, but they figure that it's just a part of the market, and you can't blame people (or sue people) for file sharing:
"If you leave unattended a bag of candy and some children, they will not understand why you punish them for eating the candy. Illegal files are 3 clicks away for just about anyone. It's normal that consumers will take advantage of those."
But, they're figuring out ways to compete, by focusing on high quality, high-end material:
"Of course, the large majority of free and illegal content is low-end. [...] The public rejects this mass of identical video. Whatever small amount of high end content obviously stands out."
The producers in Japan might want to visit France for a lesson on how this works.
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  • icon
    Dark Helmet (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:31pm

    Directions?

    "It seems that the porn world has had a "love/hate" affair with file sharing"

    Okay, topic aside, I have to know....where is this Porn World and how do I get there? It sounds wonderful....

    link to this | view in chronology ]

    • icon
      :Lobo Santo (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:34pm

      Re: Directions?

      *shrugs* A quick google search turns up several variations on that name, but no such site.

      Hold on, I need to go purchase a domain name...

      link to this | view in chronology ]

    • icon
      Alan Gerow (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:55pm

      Re: Directions?

      Take a left at Planet Vespa, go 800,000 parsecs, hang a right at Vagitopia (might as well stop there on the way back, if you know what I mean *nudgenudgewinkwink*), then keep going for another 1,200,00 parsecs, and it's the planet behind the 18,000 space billboards.

      Be careful, though. I tried to go there and ended up in a wormhole that dropped me off at poop fetish planet ... and I did not have a good time at all.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

      • icon
        Dark Helmet (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 3:01pm

        Re: Re: Directions?

        Ooooh, reference foul...Planet Vespa....Judges?

        Oh, no, I'm sorry, that would be Planet Druidia.

        Great. Just what we need. A Druish princess.

        Funny, she doesn't LOOK Druish....

        link to this | view in chronology ]

        • icon
          Alan Gerow (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 3:07pm

          Re: Re: Re: Directions?

          DAMNIT! Cultural reference fail on me!

          I mean ...

          Planet Vespa is a DIFFERENT planet than Planet Druidia, obviously.

          *shifty eyes*

          link to this | view in chronology ]

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    Yakko Warner, 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:38pm

    Some strive for quality...

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Lucretious, 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:42pm

    don't blame Japan, you know how much a porn actress needs to be paid in order to have someone defacate in her face?

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • icon
    Chucklebutte (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:56pm

    Kinda funny...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8257720.stm

    Found this moments after reading this post lol silly French.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Bob, 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:57pm

    Once again porn leads the way...

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 15 Sep 2009 @ 3:04pm

    French porn for everyone!!

    I'll keep that in mind when buying :O

    link to this | view in chronology ]

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    jjmsan (profile), 15 Sep 2009 @ 3:58pm

    There was all that controversy over that Japanese fetish game so this may be a reaction to that. The Japanese hetai publishers blocked all links that were not from Japan right after that.

    link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Tomoyo, 15 Sep 2009 @ 4:33pm

    Ugh.

    Who even wants Japanese porn? All the good parts are censored!

    link to this | view in chronology ]

    • identicon
      Another AC, 16 Sep 2009 @ 5:18am

      Re: Ugh.

      Thats what I was thinking, I would be mad too if I had to pixelize all the juicy bits.

      link to this | view in chronology ]

  • identicon
    Val, 23 Sep 2009 @ 8:39pm

    ....
    I totally agree with that.

    link to this | view in chronology ]


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