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Old 03-08-2018, 12:05 AM   #848
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Hey Dani,

I just watched video log 713, wherein you reply to Anoree's questions about the future of the adult film industry.

While I have encouraged you to look into Virtual Reality and related technologies by visiting a Phoenix arcade, I suspect it is still too early for you to try launching into anything like full-scale VR production. I think arcades will help acquaint more people with the experience and lead to increased deployment and the evolution of gear which keeps getting more standardized, inexpensive and capable.

But that's not to say that doing experiments is prohibitively expensive any more, as was the case a decade ago! Spend a few minutes to see what one can accomplish with the Ricoh Theta S, a "360-degree" video camera which TODAY only costs about $250, Amazon page here, by watching the OLD review here.


Eager to promote VR and related technologies, both Facebook and Youtube host the sort of video produced by cameras like these for free. You could shoot a free promotional video and post it on Youtube for signed-in "adult" users to enjoy, soliciting feedback. And if the results were good, you might even start a for-profit "side hustle" shooting similar matter for your fellow metro-Phoenix adult film talent!

As to the question of what to do about media piracy, there is no simple answer. First, appreciate that it is not a problem peculiar to porn. ALMOST ANY information product is subject to the same abuse: other types of films, books, software, and most famously of all, music.

Video games are an exception for a couple special reasons:
(1) Although distribution media naively appear to be conventional optical disks, they are NOT, being incompatible media which proprietary game consoles alone can easily read.
(2) Multiplayer online games ADDITIONALLY require the coordination of a chaperoned server, which makes the end-user software useless absent a paid subscription to such a server.

One book which tries to intelligently discuss how commercial artists of all sorts can try to cope with a post-Napster world in which piracy is unavoidable is Information Doesn't Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age, Amazon page here.
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You will recall that I have continued to encourage you to leverage and embellish your film-making skills to enable yourself to enjoy a vocation that cannot be attacked by piracy, such as making sex tapes for private couples. And as a video production professional, there's no reason you couldn't venture into things like making videos which advertise firms, or instruct in the use of products and services - which are paid for by clients who would like nothing better than for them to be reproduced and distributed wthout limit.

As to creating adult films with better production values and deeper emotional depth, to make stories which escape the fungability of austere porn (which aesthetically resembles action stunt matter) - the world seems to be there already! Four decades ago the late porn pioneer Gerard Damiano said the day would come that adult films and conventional films would approach one another in content, creating the all-but-seamless continuum we enjoy today. For example, consider the STARZ cable-TV serial "The Girlfriend Experience," inspired by the Sasha Grey film of the same name. In season two, one of the episodes clearly shows, on a smartphone video screen, a woman fellating what looks to be indistinguishable from a man's penis.

Now, that's not to say that cable TV episodes escape piracy any more than the type of stuff you produce, but at least for now, the convenience of a cable subscription provides enough incentive for enough people not to seek it out to save a few bucks a month, that the business remains sustainable.

As always, you have my best wishes for success in our rough-and-tumble Brave New World. Please continuously make serious long-term savings against the uncertainties everyone will face, and need overcome, in the future.

Ron The Logician
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