Porn is the perfect example to illustrate how our digital copyright system is simply incapable of sustaining an actual market. Blockbuster films? Music? Well,

Porn is the perfect example to illustrate how our digital copyright system is simply incapable of sustaining an actual market. Blockbuster films? Music? Well, you can stream them on one of the 3-5 services. There is just enough of a product to compete with piracy. Amateur content? We have YouTube, which promises to pay content creators, so long as the content isn't obscene (as defined by YouTube's content policy, and enforced by its algorithmic moderation). There is enough of a product that both creators and viewers are willing to compromise. Porn? Not a chance. There are the MindGeek services, which are basically YouTube with garbage-bitrate encoding; and there is piracy. Right up until the infamous PornHub purge, piracy was the only game in town! -- When it comes to porn, if your content isn't freely available on a popular tube site, it may as well not exist. Piracy is the advertising model for the porn industry. There is a reason that PornHub's bitrate is so bad. It's clearly not just the bandwidth: every video on that site looks like it went through every lossy codec in order, just to make it as chunky as possible. Why? Because you aren't meant to stay. You are meant to pay $30 for a monthly subscription to the studio you like most. As soon as you do that, you get a DRM-free high-bitrate 4K@60 download-as-much-as-you-want as-many-times-as-you-want service. In other words: exactly what Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, and the Digital Copyright industry at large would have us believe is the most unsustainable business model ever, doomed to fail instantly; yet somehow it hasn't failed yet. But what about torrents? What about eporner and hqporner and all the other high-bitrate obviously-ripped-from-studio-subscription streaming sites? Aren't they killing the industry? They have been around for decades, yet the industry has been chugging along without a hitch. -- It's abundantly clear that the DMCA hasn't done porn any favors. The only thing it is useful for is to expand MindGeeks moat, and for DMCA trolls like this (Strike 3) to exploit regular people who were just participating in the more "obscene" corners of our digital society.