OP/ED by Al Blanco. Here’s AL’s new site http://alishere.wordpress.com/
I am not going to wax poetic on this one; I’m just going to lay you out very compelling reasons why I think anyone with half a brain should not pay for porn, period. You can disagree, that’s fine, but if you are one who is losing money from this you should understand if I feel this way, others do too, and instead of getting all bitchy about it, alter your strategies so people like me do feel compelled to buy porn.
1. Don’t hate the player, hate the game! – I would think that people who produce porn understand this concept. There was a time when porn fans, to some extent, needed porn producers to get their fix. Short of borrowing your friends shit, there was no way of getting new shit at any given moment without paying for it. Those days are gone. Long gone. All of us remember how much we had to grab our ankles to get the newest, hottest shit. That’s right, exorbitant prices that would make the most shameless pimp blush. So now that the tables are turned, I am supposed to go out of my way to put money in your pockets? What happened to all that money you guys used to make? How porn made more money than NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL COMBINED? What the fuck are your expenses? You are telling me you guys are not making a profit? That’s your fault, quit crying.
2. It’s about the girls dumbass! – Who are the most ardent watchers of porn? Straight men. What do straight men look for in porn? The girls. That being said, even when you watch pirated shit, you know the GIRLS ALREADY GOT PAID! It’s like Ruby said, there’s no residuals in porn for these girls. I could give a fuck if the guy has nothing to eat, the producer has nothing to eat, the fuckin porn shop has nothing to eat. As long as the girls who fuck on camera for me got paid, I’m cool.
3 . Making porn is its own reward! – Guess what, a lot of people actually have to WORK for a living, meaning they don’t just produce and distribute videos of girls fucking. So there, even if you aren’t making great money, you aren’t doing anything for it and you also get to watch lots of girls fuck. Not making enough money? Get another fuckin hustle. You would never see me crying about some shit like that, I’d just get back to my grind.
4. Going To A Website Is Not A Crime! – Face it, for people watching porn at free tube sites, they do not know what is legit and what is not. It is not our responsibility to find out. Am I supposed to investigate every place I patronize to make sure they are not doing illegal shit? There is no law against going to a website, PERIOD. If the people who are running the site are accepting and posting pirated content, go after them. Fact is, every site that has pirated content has legit content, and there is no way of knowing what is legit and what is not.
5. I Thought Porn Was Legitimate Media? – Any other form of media is available for people for free. Don’t think so? TV shows, music? TV. Music? the radio. Newspapers, books? The library. Fact is, you can get all of the above at a library, but you can’t get porn at a library. If porn was treated like music, movies and books, than it should be made available at our local libraries for all people to enjoy free of charge. So if that were mandated by our government and companies were forced to provide content for free at libraries and there were no tube sites, we would have the same predicament, wouldn’t we? Of course we would.
6. Step ya Fuckin Game Up Player! – Again, I can’t sympathize with people who were basically extorting people and now want to cry about it. Look at the music industry. After Napster, the music industry was forced to reevaluate how it did business. Now we have Itunes etc. where people can purchase the music legally. Porn has tried to do that, but the fact is the music industry didn’t rub their customers the wrong way like the industry did, so porn fans have no qualms about getting their shit for free. Step your game up, or find another line of work. Crying about it is not going to help. You are fortunate that your line of work sucks in millions of people who if they weren’t genetically cursed with an impulse to spread their seeds as far and wide as possible would never pay a cent for porn. It’s not a necessity, it’s a stigma.
That’s all I have for now, if I thought about it more I could make it longer. This took me twenty minutes, and I’m drunk right now, so if I can justify this to myself in that time frame and others who I know will agree with me, my detractors should take heed and decide who is really at fault here.
Preach it Al!!!
Ruby, for you it’s easy because you are in the choir and because you give me a giant boner
I love your giant boner, babe! I don’t know what I’d do if it wasn’t for free porn, other than phone sex, I’m a chronic masterbator. Emphasis on chronic!
I wish I didn’t read that. I’m trying to get ready to leave and that right there just hardened me up
Congrats AL on the new blog!!
My librarian is 102, she would fall over dead if you could check porn out of the library!
What about the argument;
“If a mechanic wants to listen to my music for free, then I want to go to that mechanic and have him do an oil change and tune up for my car for free.”
I’m not looking for a fight just a question????
I’m not making Hustler or Bang Bros perform any labor for me, nor am I taking anything from them. I have not taken ownership of the streaming video, therefore I should not have to pay for it. I am not taking any money from anyone, they are just not getting my money. I do not download any free material whatsoever.
thank you by the way Kay, trust me, there are some interesting things on the way
What Lars Ulrich so conveniently forgets is the irony of his statement. Metallica became popular in the 80’s by fans bootlegging their live performances, spreading their name further than they ever could at the time. As a musician, I have given the music aspect of this a lot of thought. For music, it is a valid argument, though for a millionaire like Lars Ulrich to make a big deal out of it is just lame. Dr. Dre did it too. Music is intellectual property however. Each song you has things in place that somehow make it unique to every other song in existence. Porno is a limited media and in no way can compare to music, regardless of your opinion, Lars was referring to music and we are not.
AL, thanks for bringing up Metallica. I love how they became the recording industry’s stooge over Napster and other music sharing sites. Record companies raped artists and fans for decades…and still do now, I always wonder what Lars and the boys got from the RIAA for his speaking/crying out. Porn movies are intellectual property, though some more than others…like Deep Throat as compared to Oh there’s a Negro in My Mom 2, where Johnny Thrust is perfectly cast as a retard. Wonder how Grip and Cram paid him? Lunch meat? Vaseline? Or does he still owe them bail money.
Larry, under the strictest of scrutiny porn is intellectual property, however if you tell that to anyone who can write, play an instrument etc. they are gonna look at you sideways.
Lars said of the bootlegging days “that was different then, we were giving permission”
Fuck off Lars. Slayer’s Reign in Blood owns you and your shity ass paiste cymbals.
He’s definitely a mediocre drummer
Best drummers
Dave Lombardo-Slayer
Dave Culross- Suffocation
Steve Asheim-Deicide (also a great music writer)
Pete “Commando” Sandoval-Morbid Angel
Felix-DRI
and so many more…
Additional best drummers:
Danny Carey: Tool
John Dolmayan: SOAD (like ’em or hate ’em. . John can play)
On the intellectual property front.
I am all for intellectual property. I pay for 99.9% of the media I consume online (the small percentage I don’t is because there is no other legitimate mechanism for me to obtain it).
The big sitcking point has always been the control of the media. . .the industries have always tried to kill off any technology that threatened their control of the pipeline. . .they tried it with magnetic tape recorders, they tried it with VCR’s and they tried it with CD Burners.
In the end the shifting model teaches that who sufferes in this new envrionment is the middle man. Trent Reznor and Radiohead figured that out, others will to. . .
The media companies have always feared that they would be rendered irrelevant. That’s why they sue the teenagers downloading off Grokster and bitTorrent and not the pirate factories that mass produce DVD’s in ships off the coast of Taiwan.
But as the means of the creator being able to direclty deliver the quality product direclty to the consumer. . the less and less the middle tier is required.
And yes, the wider the sea gets, the more shit must be waded through, but there is more quality stuff out there to find.
I think it’s exciting and I’m glad to see the gatekeepers being ground under the tide.
Sorry about the length, but it’s one of the few times I’ve come across something on there that I felt I could contribute to. . .
BLOG? 🙂 Congrats on the blog launch. 😛
thanks Darrah!
I’ll add your blog soon this week to my blogroll.