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iWantEmpire, Porn Guardian Partner to Fight Piracy

iWantEmpire has announced an agreement with Porn Guardian to give its artists protection from pirates along with assistance in regulatory enforcement to take down illegally obtained content from unauthorized websites.

Porn Guardian Adds Preemptive Pirate Blocking, Shopify Support

Porn Guardian has announced two additions to its real-time watermarking system.

AEBN, PornGuardian Announce Exclusive Partnership

AEBN and PornGuardian have announced their exclusive partnership to help AEBN content partners protect their assets from piracy.

Porn Guardian Teams Up With Xvid Solutions

Porn Guardian (aka Piracy Stops Here) has added another tool to it arsenal of piracy-fighting weapons with Xvid’s new AutoGraph fingerprinting service.

opinion

Piracy Journal: An Industry Coming of Age

I have been ruminating about this column for some time. It started when I read an unflattering article in a mainstream publication after the XBIZ EU show in London about how the industry appeared to be “on its death bed.” The author talked about a “disappointingly beige” conference focused on seminars about payment processors and government regulations.

Peter Phinney ·

VPN Users Are Likely Content Pirates, BBC Says

Heavy users of VPNs are so suspicious that ISPs should consider them as content pirates, according to a new study made for the Australian government by BBC Worldwide.

Porn Guardian’s Peter Phinney Discusses Combating Counterfeit Sex Toys

Porn Guardian co-founder Peter Phinney says that the strategy of his organization’s new Product Piracy Pilot Program, launching this weekend at ANME in collaboration with the Free Speech Coalition, is to make it “uncomfortable and [financially] unproductive” for sellers of counterfeit merchandise.

opinion

Piracy Journal: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Too often, content owners pursue instances of copyright infringement in desperation and with anger. If you take it as a personal attack that someone is distributing your content without your permission, it might be better to hire someone impartial to pursue piracy on your behalf.

Peter Phinney ·

Cody Media Taps Porn Guardian

Cody Media announced today that it has chosen Porn Guardian to assist the studio's antipiracy needs. Cody Media operates SeanCody.com, an iconic brand in gay porn.

Porn Guardian Releases 2013 Piracy Report

Today Piracy Stops Here (Porn Guardian) announced the release of its 2013 Piracy Report.

opinion

Piracy Journal: It’s Perfectly Legal ... But ...

A trademark is a form of protection for any word, name, symbol, or device used in commerce to “identify the goods of one manufacturer or seller from goods manufactured or sold by others,” and to indicate the source of the goods.

Peter Phinney ·
opinion

Knocking the Knock Offs

American copyright law has traditionally been intertwined with how we view patents and trademarks. In fact, the U.S. House and Senate Patent Committee and it’s Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights was responsible for crafting copyright law until fairly recently, and the individual industries affected by copyright have always been the entities that shape actual legislative updates in the U.S.

Peter Phinney ·
opinion

Piracy Journal: Looking at Leachers

There is a copyright infringement case in Chicago that began two years ago, and it’s still before the court, and everyone interested in digital piracy should be watching it closely. It involves a content producer from Florida called Flavaworks, and a social media and video indexing site called MyVidster.com.

Peter Phinney ·
opinion

The Condom Link

Lots of our clients produce gay content. For some it’s a small part of an otherwise straight enterprise, but for others, it’s their main focus and has been for years. Living and working in adult in Los Angeles, I’ve been following Measure B with particular interest because, as anyone who enjoys gay porn knows, condoms have been completely integrated into that content niche for quite a long time, with a few notable exceptions — outlier studios that have always produced exclusively bareback gay video. Condom use is almost never integrated into a storyline, whether the production is straight or gay — because let’s be honest — much of the content our industry puts out involves storylines having to do with casual sex, unplanned encounters with strangers, or falling victim to seduction or sudden animal urges.

Peter Phinney ·

Porn Guardian, GayTorrent.ru Strike Deal to Eliminate Infringing Content

Porn Guardian has consummated a deal with Russian peer-to-peer sharing torrent site GayTorrent.ru to remove its client’s infringing content.

opinion

Is File Sharing Theft?

The language we use to frame digital piracy matters, and the real problem is that 20th century notions of theft simply don’t apply. Copying content one did not create is not the same zero-sum game as stealing, because the owner still has his original content. And now, entire generations of “Netizens” draw a sharp moral distinction between file sharing and theft. A March 2012 op-ed in the New York Times posits that “we should recognize that the criminal law is least effective – and least legitimate – when it is at odds with widely held moral intuitions.”

Peter Phinney ·

Porn Guardian Releases 2012 Piracy Report

Porn Guardian, one of the industry's leading anti-piracy companies, has announced the public availability of its 2012 Piracy Report.

Porn Guardian PSA Featured in 'So You Think You Can Fuck'

Anti piracy company Porn Guardian has recorded two different public service announcements in conjunction with co-owner Dominic Ford's reality show "So You Think You Can Fuck."

File Lockers: Next Chapter in Porn Piracy Saga

The adult entertainment industry's war against online piracy has spurred a new breed of front-runner protectionists who have emerged as formidable forces to be reckoned with in the fight against intellectual property theft.

Porn Guardian, FilesMonster in 'Making Piracy Pay' Deal

Piracy fighter Porn Guardian has launched a new program in conjunction with cyberlocker site FilesMonster.com that attempts to convert would-be pirates to actual paying customers.