Werewolf TV Show Blocked From DVD Release Due To Music Licensing

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

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

Tue, Sep 15th 2009 1:49pm — Mike Masnick

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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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....
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: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...
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Yakko Warner, 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:38pm

Some strive for quality...
...some just adjust their standards.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Bob, 15 Sep 2009 @ 2:57pm

Once again porn leads the way...
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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....
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Sep 2009 @ 3:04pm

French porn for everyone!!

I'll keep that in mind when buying :O
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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*
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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.
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Anonymous Coward, 15 Sep 2009 @ 4:16pm

Re: Re: Directions?
What you didn't just type in pornworld.com ?
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Tomoyo, 15 Sep 2009 @ 4:33pm

Ugh.
Who even wants Japanese porn? All the good parts are censored!
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Lucretious, 15 Sep 2009 @ 6:21pm

Re: Kinda funny...
France.....LOL
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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.
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Val, 23 Sep 2009 @ 8:39pm

....
I totally agree with that.
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