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Still Worried About Free Porn?
(Article Contributed By Dino - Posted on July 23rd, 2008)
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The worldwide crackdown on the distribution of copyrighted material is always breaking news. The RIAA throws out suits to anyone it can find with a quick subpoena (even if they turn out to be a 12-year-old girl or a dead grandmother), the “security” firms trawl the torrents and P2P networks spreading fales files, logging IPs of users and generally causing a lot of problems for people who want to share files online.
Slowly the P2P networks are being shut down. Napster was the first to make a global impact on the file sharing scene; it brought MP3s to the masses without the need for tricky software, technical knowledge and sources. Everyone could download a copy and start sharing away. It was the revolution.
Then came Metallica, and all that changed.
That’s history now, but we’re still living in an era where people would rather steal than pay for material, especially when it comes to porn. The peer to peer networks are still pretty full of porn, but most of it is faked having been riddled with injected files over the years by various sources. The stuff that is real doesn’t last very long or is swapped behind “darknets” – virtual networks of fileswappers created using tunneling services online.
At least that’s what I thought. You see, when fileswappers were pushed out of the P2P networks they fled to Torrents. BT has, or at least had the capacity to really change the way files are downloaded over the net, but sites like Supernova really killed that idea. They promoted the use of Torrents for file swapping and the technology quickly became synonymous with piracy.
There are a few mainstream uses for the system (namely for online games and such), but the majority of BT use is for pirated material. At least it was – it’s now going the same way as the peer to peer networks and is being scanned, infiltrated and watched by various law enforcement agencies around the world.
Which is good – don’t get me wrong. The last thing I want to see is a new site released onto the market that has real potential for the owners and affiliates and to have it ruined because someone leeched the entire site’s content and puts it up on a torrent for free. Who’s going to buy memberships when they can just download it all for nothing?
That’s the big argument that’s been raging for years – why buy when I can get for free? We’ve been giving away free hardcore for so long now that it’s a wonder that anyone buys a membership. The people who do buy memberships now are either those who are looking to leech and spread, or the general net user who doesn’t know that he can get this stuff for free.
Filesharing is going back to grass roots. It’s taking a leaf out of history (and various teachings) and sticking with what it knows, and what it knows are the newsgroups. Remember those? Usenet – the once open-to-all content store, meeting place and primitive web forum for every subject, niche and taste you could ever think of. Thousands upon thousands of individual, categorized groups for everything from hardware discussion to, yes, porn.
There’s a lot of it too. Back in the day the NGs where were you went to get your porn. When the web was still young and the online porn industry was in its infancy, it’s where many site owners got their content from. Now it’s a haven for DVD pirates and site rippers all over the world.
You can find everything you need in these groups – hundreds of them. You can post requests for various sections of any online site (although they will probably be ignored – people tend to just post what they want) and download clips, movies, images – the whole lot. Whole DVDs are cloned using various free software packages, split up into sections and uploaded to the groups.
With the right knowledge, the right software and a little time, you can get just about anything you want for free – right now! If this doesn’t scare the pants off of you, there’s something wrong.
Right now the newsgroups are home to filesharers of a different breed – you need quite a bit of specialized software to deal with the way that large files are posted to the groups. You need a good news account (your ISP newsfeed is probably censored and restricted in terms of bandwidth) and probably a decent amount of technical knowledge, but that’s changing.
It’s becoming easier and faster to use newsgroups to share files. News feeds are springing up all over, and ironically people are happy to pay for this service on a monthly basis. I guess you can liken it to an all-you-can-eat buffet. One price gets you the lot for a month.
So what can we do about it as an industry? Right now, not a lot. You could make a point of checking the various groups with your own newsreader and placing deletion requests on posts containing your content to the big NG feed carriers, but you’ll never get rid of them all and it’s a full-time job in itself.
You could go the other way – release you own material into the NGs (heavily censored of course) as a trailer, or simply upload fakes the way many companies do now on the P2P networks. It might help, but in reality it will probably just make the lechers target your sites even more as revenge.
Sadly, the newsgroups are here to stay – they’re an integral part of the net and one of its earliest uses. We’re not going to see an easy end to this type of filesharing, so the only advice right now I can give our industry is to sit down, buckle up and hold tight – this is going to get messy.
Till tomorrow, pimps!
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