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Maybe Vista doesn't suck?
Armando:
This sounds wacky, but imagine if the porn industry had taken the same tack as the music companies toward online file sharing, bittorrent, usenet, etc. The music industry's only idea is to sue, which doesn't stop copying, and costs you and your artists a fortune. (Ask Apple how much money there is to be made with cheap music — billions!) Instead, the porn industry has always been on the cutting edge of web tech, adopting and assimilating everything.
-zridling (December 03, 2007, 09:56 AM)
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True. But... I wonder if that comparison holds all the way down though. Ahem.
One would of course have to consider porn as a specific depicted content (a certain type of music/video, having a particular signified and referent), rather than a specific medium-form-code (and the pornography categorization is of course conditioned by the socio-cultural context). So a better comparison to start with would be : pornographic music industry (never heard a piece…) —> children song music industry. Otherwise the logic would a bit… skewed.
In other words, to be fairer, you'd have to compare "pornographic videos" too some other kind of videos and ask at least two questions : why do “pornographic music" (or… sonic porn?) succeeds where other types of "musics" fail ? Or, more likely, why do " pornographic video " succeeds where other types of video content... fail ? Which marketing strategies are transferable to other types of music/videos,… Considering the specific psychophysical, psychosexual, socio-cultural, etc. arousing mechanisms inherent to the experience of pornography. (Sorry, this is bad English… am doing my best while I’m eating my sandwich — hey, because of you Darwin, everything I say now sounds like crude puns)
Anyway, in yet other words, there are some lessons to be learned from the porn industry, maybe, but one also has to take into account the specific experience of interpreting pornographic content, which powerfully takes advantage of certain structures and tendencies of man's biology and psychology... to put it simplistically.
I have no idea if I was able to convey my “ideas” here… Don’t worry, I won’t quote Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn now. Back to my sandwich.
Ralf Maximus:
Isn't the porn industry riddled with piracy? All that stuff has to be coming from someplace, and I can't believe it's all public domain.
Yet it still appears to be a profitable industry, otherwise all the online porn shops would've gone out of business years ago. So maybe the sheer volume of material allows a monumental amount of theft and still delivers profits? Or are porn counter-piracy measures sufficient to keep things under control?
Didn't we have a user here who works in the adult industry? Maybe we can ask him.
Lashiec:
Everyone can produce pr0n these days. IIRC the whole porn industry churns out far more movies every year than Hollywood and such together (although Bollywood produces movies by the bucketful)
Conclusion (after seeing the development of the thread): Vista doesn't suck because is a mean for getting more porn. And we know that with such ends, the means are more than justified ;D
Darwin:
Didn't we have a user here who works in the adult industry? Maybe we can ask him.
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Yeah... you're thinking of EmporerEJ, who runs the VirtualSexMachine.com website.
cranioscopical:
Maybe I'm adrift but I'm sure I recall fuss and commotion about recording to open-reel tape, and later cassette, well before 1980. Apple was started in '67 and the mystical anti-recording signal stuff came almost at once, if I recall it right.
-cranioscopical (December 02, 2007, 05:13 PM)
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I wonder if this was another one of Magic Alex' "brainwaves"?
-Darwin (December 03, 2007, 09:11 AM)
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Probably... from brain to drain with little strain.
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