These are some scary stats on the demands of video downloading on the net, and how much of that traffic is from file sharing.... heavily citing bittorrents as a major contributor to bandwidth drags.....
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These are some scary stats on the demands of video downloading on the net, and how much of that traffic is from file sharing.... heavily citing bittorrents as a major contributor to bandwidth drags.....
Here is the article
And 99.9% of the video files going through Bit Torrent are pirated! Bit Torrent has quickly taken over as the method of choice for illegal file sharing/stealing.
Another interesting bit of info is that gay porn is leading the way. As part of the "discovery process" related to our lawsuits against various "Youtube-style" websites, we are finding that up to 70% of their traffic is gay porn! I am amazed at the numbers we are starting to see from these cases!
It appears that gaymen are "early adopters" of these new technologies and are leading the way. So it only makes sense that gay studios are the first ones to be heavily affected by these piracy issues.
everyone I know is on Bittorrent. A friend was saying how he couldn't download anything that was 3-4 days old just a few months ago because of no seeders, now there's 50-100 people seeding torrents and growing.
Of the 10-15 people I knew who eagerly and regularly paid for porn, rebilling lifor years, some with dialers (!!!), are not paying anymore they're torrenting instead.
Then there's AllPeers on Firefox and of course newsgroups which is probably bigger than torrents.
then you have xtube/pornotube - when I want to rub one off I go there, and extremely rarely anymore to TGPs. I've noticed xtube is growing by leaps and bounds it's like the new TGP craze
People are put off by the junk out there, the $70 DVDs, the inflated cock sizes, flashy covers and mediocre movies, at forums and blog comments I've read some of them point out how models are being paid so little and using torrenting as justification to get back at the pornographers
I can understand that some people have been so put off by misleading tours and overpriced, crappy porn. And can understand that people have been so conditioned to expect things for free by just how much free content webmasters have willingly put out there.Quote:
Originally Posted by jIgG
But that is just BS rationalization. People will say anything to justify stealing content, and convince themselves of anything to justify it.
and u want to fight 50% of internet traffic corbin? isnt that a bit blue eyed???Quote:
Despite the relatively small number of users, research indicates that systems such as BitTorrent are responsible for more than 50% of all internet traffic. Some executives fear that without proper investment, video download services could clog up the internet and cause online gridlock.
Theft is theft, no matter how many people are doing it. Just because it is a lot of people does not make it right.Quote:
Originally Posted by padabum
Content costs money to produce and has proprietary property value, not to mention it, in and of itself, is the product being produced and sold as a business model for many well run, well stocked, and high quality websites. Stealing it by passing it around on bit torrents or any other file sharing network is wrong, period.
you arent getting my point are you??? if the billion dollar entertainment business cant stop that stuff, how will us freaking little porn webmasters???
google owns blogspot and it owns youtube.... they are probably scared to hell by your letters of infringement :D
so your proposal is? let them do it? it's okay because there is nothing we can do about it? And whether Google or anyone else is "scared to hell" or not is irrelevant. They have a legal obligation to comply with factual, legitmate DMCA complaints and as some in our business have proved, defending your copyright is simply good business.Quote:
Originally Posted by padabum
When they talk about "50% of online traffic" they are not talking about 50% of individual web surfers. They are talking about 50% of the data transferred via web. Combatting piracy does not and would not involve combatting 50% of all websurfers or even 50% of traffic. It involves going after the individuals actively engaged in pirating your copyrighted material.Quote:
Originally Posted by padabum
You seem to have an interesting take on things... it's not just that you chose to exercise your right to not pursue copyright infringers. It's that you seem to have a serious problem with anyone else doing it and fail to see why on earth they would want to.
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Originally Posted by jIgG
Wow, there's a lot of amateur porn on xtube, and I think it's a lot hotter than what most pay sites have to offer. Boyfriends having sex bareback, guys wanking off and showing all this for free. The only drawback is the poor quality of the movies.
Add to that entire movies from professional studios that are pirated on bittorrent. No wonder it's 10 times harder to sell a membership these days than just a year ago. My guess is that only rarer fetish-oriented sites will be able to resist this new trend, but the more general ones will either have to vastly improve their quality and/or decrease prices... It's much like when people started downloading music, only here amateur stuff isn't really copyright infringement so nobody can complain.
Not a fun time to be a small adult webmaster. :(