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Tracking us raincoaters may have a lot of issues, first being we won't like it. And who are you going to get to bust down my door, when my digitally marked DVD scene hits the 'net?



No door bustin' required...maybe they'll get served with a subpoena for damages, but I still think the most effective tactic is identifying the bad apples and banning them for life. Sharing the knowledge is essential...they won't be doing it to site A (and related sites in the family), but they will inevitably move on and try and do it to site B. If they're on the list, site B simply stops them from joining, as does site C, D, etc.

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If you just hit the big guys, that will become a $hifting target. I don't see any political upside to the Po-po helping you whack these moles.



Doesn't matter if they're big or small...the crime is the same, as is the solution. If we only proceed with banning portion of my proposed approach and forego the seeking of damages via legal means, then there's no need for the Po-Po to be involved whatsoever.

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Or beat the scumbags at their own game, by making good content that is just starting to get stale, available for free or nearly free.



That's one way of doing it...martial arts author Ashida Kim is in dispute with a number of publishers regarding royalties for his book 'Secrets Of The Ninja', so he has decided to fuck with their program and stop them making money by making the book available for free on his own website! You can download it HERE...as Kim says: 'Steal this book...everyone else has!'.

Would such an approach work for adult? I don't think so...tube and torrent sites make money off of ads, but then they don't have to worry about breaking even with the production costs of the material which attracts the surfer in the first place. If a start-up company launched a tube site with content that it produced and paid for, then I believe that their business model would be doomed to fail. Any industry-savvy folk care to hazard a guess at exactly how much the content on one of these tube sites is worth in terms of what it cost to produce?

The other drawback is that mainstream advertisers want nothing to do with porn, because it often leads to them getting boycotted and/or picketed by religious or 'family' groups. If Wicked put out a film wherein Stormy says she only blows guys who drive American cars, will it turnaround the fortunes of the Big Three? We'll probably never know.