Avast Me Hearties, Pirated Porn Be A Big Problem

Break out the tricorn hats and eye patches. On April 30, USC's School of Cinematic Arts held a seminar titled "The Piracy of Sex: A Conversation with Jessica Drake and Nate Glass."

Jessica Drake is a sex educator and performer, writer and director for Wicked Pictures, a pornographic film studio headquartered in nearby Canoga Park. Nate Glass is the founder of Takedown Piracy, an anti-piracy service that works to prevent pirating of films on digital media, including pornographic films as well as mainstream media.

Oh... they're talking about pirating films, not high seas pirating. Damnit, I got all dressed up for nothing.

"I've seen comments from people where they say, ‘I'll pay for Netflix, but I won't pay for porn,' so I think maybe there's people who will pay for mainstream content but not for porn," Glass said. He added that people often behave different over the Internet than in daily interactions. "People don't realize what they're doing is wrong, or they think that they can be anonymous and hide by the Internet," he said.

Many wigs were blown off by such revelations, such as this guy's...

David Watts, an attendee of the event, said that while he was interested in the digital rights aspect of pornography, he did not realize the scale of online piracy of that nature. "I didn't realize that there were a lot of porn Dropbox sites. I think there were a lot of file-sharing sites that Nate Glass talked about that I wasn't aware of," he said. "I wasn't aware of a lot of the statistics that go along with piracy. I certainly knew that there were plenty, plenty, plenty of tube sites, but this event definitely added a lot to it."

Piracy is definitely an issue, and one which likely has a wider depth and breadth than the average person is aware of, which is why it's important to know you're getting your porn from a reputable site. After all, it's not just the site you're hurting, it's the performers and providers of the content that really feel the pinch.

Via Daily Trojan