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Can someone kindly explain to me how these sites stay up? Isn't there copyright issues? It must be killing the companies. And was there ever a movement afoot by the big names to shut these sites down?

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**Question for Holly** I have Never encountered ANY of your work or scenes on any of these TUBE sites, Holly, but I have only visited a handful of them compared to what is out there. Do you know for a fact that any RANDALL scenes have been pirated and posted-available on some Tube site???

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Holly shoots porn? I thought she just photographed it.

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I agree. Take it up with the moderator:

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I never use these porno tube websites.

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I'd rather have Holly list the perversions she enjoys from these sites.

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RIAA Enlists ISPs in Digital-Piracy Battle
By Jennifer LeClaire
December 19, 2008 1:21PM

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The RIAA is changing tactics in the battle against music piracy. Now, instead of the RIAA suing consumers -- and generating pubic-relations nightmares -- the RIAA will work with ISPs to alert them to possible pirated music downloads. The RIAA will use the ISP as a piracy enforcer. The RIAA's ISP strategy may help the label industry's viability.

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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is putting an end to its lawsuit strategy, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The RIAA has sued thousands of people over the years for allegedly stealing music on the Internet -- about 35,000 people since 2003 -- but the group is reportedly looking for better ways to protect its members from online piracy.

Analysts said the lawsuit strategy wasn't particularly effective, and caused public-relations issues. Indeed, the RIAA has in the past targeted single mothers, children and even a dead person. The RIAA's new strategy is to enlist Internet service providers.

The ISP as Enforcer

According to the Journal, the RIAA has come to preliminary agreements with major ISPs. The RIAA will send an e-mail alerting an ISP to the suspected music pirate. The ISP, in turn, will send an e-mail to the suspected pirate, suggesting that person is uploading music illegally and asking for a halt.

"The RIAA still wants to discourage piracy, but they want somebody else to be the enforcer," said Phil Leigh, a senior analyst at Inside Digital Media. "This approach will put the ISP in that role."

RIAA's new tactic
In that role, the ISP would continue to alert the alleged infringer about the RIAA's warnings -- to a point. The Journal reported that repeated warnings would be accompanie

d by slower connections to the Internet. The ISP might also unplug the user.

, "Increasingly the ISPs are concerned about bandwidth costs, so they have an incentive to penalize the bandwidth hogs," Leigh said. "High-volume file sharers probably are bandwidth hogs. So the RIAA can essentially identify the egregious violators, and then the ISPs for their own reasons will want to enforce action against them by simply cutting them off."

The RIAA's Bigger Problem

There are more than 500 legitimate digital-music services worldwide, offering more than six million tracks -- more than four times the stock of a music megastore, according to the IFMI, a record industry association in London. Yet tens of billions of illegal files were swapped in 2007. The ratio of unlicensed tracks downloaded to legal tracks sold is about 20 to one.

Will the RIAA's new strategy make a difference? Leigh said it will "make a dent, and nothing more." As he sees it, piracy has become a less significant issue because most consumers are aware of the legal alternatives and the potential consequences of using a pirated site -- not the legal consequences, but the spyware and malware consequences.

But the industry may have bigger problems than battling piracy in the long term, and stopping the lawsuit strategy may be a smart public-relations move.

"At this point, the viability of the label industry itself is in question. It's kind of like newspapers," Leigh said. "One of the things [is] that if that kind of viability is questioned, you certainly don't want to antagonize your audience."

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who care it is still profitable for any company porno is cheap every thing in it is cheap ..

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A DDoS attack also isn't as easy or effective as it used to be for various reasons, not to mention youporn has a mesh of hundreds of servers scattered everywhere when I checked, so to be able to hold that many down you'd have to work at an ISP or telecom company, and not in the U.S. either - eastern europe perhaps. Those little russian fuckers in their big coats would want a nice payday to do their nerdy black ops too.

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who care it is still profitable for any company porno is cheap every thing in it is cheap ..

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It's cheap if you produce cheap content. And obviously it can't be that profitable these days if companies are shutting down left and right.

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do you even know what the budget to a porn is it is not as cheap as you think with over inflated prices of talent and high replication cost of going dvd(dead) and blu-ray if you put out 20 tittles a year and your budget for each project because of inflated talent prices has to be $7000.
$7000x20=$140,000 thats on just makeing the movies, website and replication cost is what hurts if you do your own distribution even more then ever with blu-ray the most production companys staying alive have distribution deals if you cant get a deal you cant survive the odds are slim to none in todays economy back in 1996 if you did your own thing with lower dup and replication cost you had a better chance but not now.

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