Adult Producers: “Stop Pirating Our Material!”

Producers of adult materials seem to have slowly woken to find that the technical and social behemoth of P2P filesharing is distributing their wares around the world. For free. Pornography is one of the most widely shared materials and we’re fairly sure at least ’some’ of it is copied without consent from the copyright owners. The rights and wrongs of this is an argument that we are not inclined to embark upon here – another time, perhaps – but it’s truly amazing that it has taken this huge industry to realize what is happening, says Zero Paid.

The porn industry is worth a staggering $30billion worldwide per year; some producers have started bounding around figures of about $2billion in annual losses. As a percentage that’s fairly huge. We can’t comment on the accuracy of these figures (and we reckon those citing them would find it difficult to substantiate them, anyway), but they highlight how amazing it is that copyright owners are finally getting together to discuss the ‘problem’.

65 adult film producers (and some other interested groups, such as lawyers) met in Southern California recently at the ‘piracy roundtable’. Arrrrrrr. They discussed the ups and downs and ins and outs of pornographic entertainment – sometimes a hard industry to be a part of, no doubt. Greg Piccionelli, an attorney who spoke at the gathering, said that it was the first real meeting of like minds on the subject in which it intended to

to take steps to finally do something about the rampant piracy that is eating away like a cancer against the industry, and there was a lot of discussion about the causes.

Piccionelli states that he thinks no more than 15 or 20 percent of the copies of films that are circulating have been purchased. The RIAA needs to read these figures and feel a little better about itself.

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