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Queasy

Queasy

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Originally posted by: Steve
Um, how is the porn industry 'underground'?
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I put it in quotes because at one time it was very much an underground industry. While it is a multi-million (billion?) dollar business now and has moved forward it is still not mainstream. It is still kind of a hush-hush thing with people ducking into adult video stores and what not.
 
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Xavier434

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Originally posted by: Steve
Um, how is the porn industry 'underground'?
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When he said underground I think he meant taboo more than anything. You can't walk into a grocery store and purchase porn dvds or mags but you certainly can pick up the latest issue of Cosmo to learn about the current 150 ways to please your man. ;)

In any case, the mere thought of paying for porn these days raises many more eyebrows than the thought of paying for music or movies. That says something. They can't win this unless the internet goes through a major overhaul of automated access restrictions which are exceedingly difficult to break. That won't happen either. At least, I don't think it will ever happen in our lifetime.
 
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Steve

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Steve
Um, how is the porn industry 'underground'?
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I put it in quotes because at one time it was very much an underground industry. While it is a multi-million (billion?) dollar business now and has moved forward it is still not mainstream. It is still kind of a hush-hush thing with people ducking into adult video stores and what not.
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It may be somewhat underground on the consumer side of things, sure - if you ignore adult product stores that can be in big cities or out by truck stops. But there are people who will shoot, direct, cut, edit, mix and produce porn one week, then do the same for Disney the next week, then back to porn the following week. On the business side of things it's far from underground.
 
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Xavier434

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Originally posted by: Steve
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Steve
Um, how is the porn industry 'underground'?
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I put it in quotes because at one time it was very much an underground industry. While it is a multi-million (billion?) dollar business now and has moved forward it is still not mainstream. It is still kind of a hush-hush thing with people ducking into adult video stores and what not.
Click to expand...

It may be somewhat underground on the consumer side of things, sure - if you ignore adult product stores that can be in big cities or out by truck stops. But there are people who will shoot, direct, cut, edit, mix and produce porn one week, then do the same for Disney the next week, then back to porn the following week. On the business side of things it's far from underground.
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But still taboo or else you would hear the people who shoot the stuff talk about it casually even in other business environments. You don't see people refrain from talking about real estate or stocks at work right?
 
WhoBeDaPlaya

WhoBeDaPlaya

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Originally posted by: Agentbolt
Pornotube is terrible. You spend as long waiting for stuff to load as you do watching anything. Not that I'd know.
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O'RLY :laugh:
 
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Lifer
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Aren't they protected by the same law that protects Google/Youtube, every other video site and every ISP against responsibility for the copyright violations of their users?
 
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Steve

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Xavier434
Originally posted by: Steve
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Steve
Um, how is the porn industry 'underground'?
Click to expand...

I put it in quotes because at one time it was very much an underground industry. While it is a multi-million (billion?) dollar business now and has moved forward it is still not mainstream. It is still kind of a hush-hush thing with people ducking into adult video stores and what not.
Click to expand...

It may be somewhat underground on the consumer side of things, sure - if you ignore adult product stores that can be in big cities or out by truck stops. But there are people who will shoot, direct, cut, edit, mix and produce porn one week, then do the same for Disney the next week, then back to porn the following week. On the business side of things it's far from underground.
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But still taboo or else you would hear the people who shoot the stuff talk about it casually even in other business environments. You don't see people refrain from talking about real estate or stocks at work right?
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I wouldn't say taboo is the right word, maybe something more like 'discreet' in that they discuss it only in appropriate venues, business or casual.
 
Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
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Originally posted by: Mermaidman
And in a related blog I found through Googling the story:
Decreased porn sales means less developed story arcs/
"The little material that does get made will have tremendously low production values, poor story arcs, substandard sexual positions, defectively made sex toys . . ."

I hope Hefner was joking.
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I personally don't view porn for the plot.


Originally posted by: randay
grab your dick and double-click!
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:music:Me up all night hugging me horn!:music:
:music:To porn, porn poooooorn!:music:
 
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SludgeFactory

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Sep 14, 2001
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Going after the blatant streaming sites is a no-brainer, they're just way too easy to use. The porn industry is entitled to their copyrights like anybody else.

I don't expect them to go crazy with lawsuits against everybody though. Waging a full-scale RIAA-style campaign on P2P porn would attract a lot of attention from the media and the government, something they've tried to avoid, particularly in recent years with Republicans in power.

Originally posted by: Mermaidman
And in a related blog I found through Googling the story:
Decreased porn sales means less developed story arcs/
"The little material that does get made will have tremendously low production values, poor story arcs, substandard sexual positions, defectively made sex toys . . ."

I hope Hefner was joking.
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That blog reads like over-the-top satire because all the blogs there are fake, it's a parody site.
 
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sonambulo

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Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Steve
Um, how is the porn industry 'underground'?
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I put it in quotes because at one time it was very much an underground industry. While it is a multi-million (billion?) dollar business now and has moved forward it is still not mainstream. It is still kind of a hush-hush thing with people ducking into adult video stores and what not.
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If you take Playboy out of the picture, then it's not even close to a billion dollar industry(in the US...can't speak for Asia or Europe). There probably aren't even 50 people in porn valley making six figures.
 
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xSauronx

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Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Is Youporn the same thing as Porntube?
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i dont know, i dont think so, but given the links below each video to more videos...its like a wikipedia of porn clips.

 
Scouzer

Scouzer

Lifer
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Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: ConstipatedVigilante
Is Youporn the same thing as Porntube?
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i dont know, i dont think so, but given the links below each video to more videos...its like a wikipedia of porn clips.
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no they arent... youporn is way, way better than porntube
 
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