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Porn Studios Gag Rival Anti-Piracy Solution

The owners of several high traffic adult “tube” sites have developed an application that enables porn studios to prevent copyright infringement at no cost. The new system initially got some press coverage on an industry news outlet, but the coverage was pulled after complaints from some of the major porn studios.

The rise of YouTube and all the adult-focused video streaming sites that followed has caused major headaches for the adult entertainment industry. Instead of having to worry about people seeding their content on BitTorrent, so called “tube sites” are now the prime threat.

The owners of these streaming sites tend to be very cooperative and assist in taking down copyrighted material when they’re asked to. In fact, the owners of several popular streaming sites have recently launched a system through which the porn studios can protect their entire catalogs for free.

The system named COP-CMS creates unique fingerprints for each of their videos. It then checks all current videos on the participating “tube” sites and removes any matches it finds and prevents the video from being uploaded in the future.

“We believe we have one the most robust systems available. Videos can be matched even if they’re blurred, resized, rotated or have sections removed. Our system is accurate enough to detect a video from just 1 second of footage,” TorrentFreak was told by David, one of the people behind the COP-CMS system.

The innovative anti-piracy solution was picked up by XBIZ, one of the leading adult news outlets, and is already in use by several porn studios. However, not all studios were equally happy about this free anti-piracy service offered by the ‘pirate’ tube sites, possibly because it directly competes with their own solution.

In the forum thread discussing the XBIZ article on the COP-CMS system, several studio representatives vent their concerns. The overall opinion seems to be that these “scoundrel thieves” don’t deserve the coverage, and not too long after the article was posted the head of leading porn studio TitanMedia replied that “It’s been taken care of…”

Indeed, the article on XBIZ was pulled from the site. “We rang xbiz.com and spoke to the editor who said they had been contacted by someone about us and now the article is “dead in the water,” Steve told TorrentFreak, adding that he never got an explanation why.

Coincidentally, the Free Speech Coalition (FSC), the trade association for the adult entertainment industry announced it’s very own anti-piracy solution on XBIZ a day later. Could it be that this upcoming competitor was one of the reasons why the other article was pulled?

If we take a look at the directors of the FSC we see that they are made up of a TitanMedia lawyer, the founder of XBIZ and the Senior Editor from AVN news. Something smells fishy here, to say the least.

Meanwhile, COP-CMS continues its free service and is currently working with several studios that are not members of FSC. On the other hand, the Free Speech Coalition might have to rethink whether or not it should change its name after this alleged gagging escapade.

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  • DJDANK

    Typical……

  • DJDANK

    whoops……….typical as in….more companies trying to stop more pirates…..lol

  • Dan

    They will even try to stop us from making the Self-Satisfaction. Poor single guys :\

  • Anonymous

    If it works and porn studios aren’t gonna get more $$, then what will they blame next?

  • Pamela Handerson

    There’s a special watermark in the porno movie itself, so that after your done watching it and your on a date with rosey-palms or palmela-Handerson and try to re-imagine the porno you watched. The adult industry will be alerted via the Bat-Phone and they’ll sue you accordingly!

  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    Nice product, but i wonder why its limited to only gay sites

  • Anonymous

    Lol @ 6

  • Trelew

    I always get a giggle when an industry that makes it’s profits (not revenue) in the billions on a quarterly can cry foul and say its losing money to internet file sharing. How stupid do these corporate suits think we are?

  • Jason

    There’s enough porn out there to last for a lifetime. I really couldn’t care less if every porn studio in the world went bankrupt.

  • masterB80r

    Monstercocktube surely sounds like a site with great integrity.-_-
    Poor gays,now they risk infection online as well.I don’t trust anything that has a sheriff star in their logo and the word cop,has rather unfortunate conotations as well.Btw kudos for FT for having the word gag and porn in the headline.

  • Anonymous

    I wanted see hows this in different than audiomagic found this fourm

    http://www.gaydemon.biz/showthread.php?s=826ea2203a80f64c19cbf0f553dfe0ae&t=12134&page=2

    it seems this a scam by a gay tube site owner

  • Anonymous

    a company than runs alot of tube sites like pornhub was sued yesterday by a porn studio

  • Sendaii

    However, not all studios were equally happy about this free anti-piracy service offered by the ‘pirate’ tube sites, possibly because it directly competes with their own solution.

    Their solution being that they sue anyone who hosts their material within an inch of their lives?

    I can understand why they don’t like this solution, it means that they make less money because they don’t have to sue anyone. Piracy is too good for business to eradicate.

  • Pamela Handerson

    @10 LOL “Monstercocktube surely sounds like a site with great integrity”

  • w00t

    Nooooo not the PORN, go after Anything but that. Go help the MPAA

  • unforgiven_sh

    damn homophobes, trying to take down all the gay tube sites :D

    after all whats all the internet for :P

  • Afficianado

    Something smells fishy here..<

    Oh how we sniggered.

  • Dee

    Lol @17

  • Anonymous

    It is a scam. Do your research for God’s sake.

    FSC started testing this program a year ago. They announced last Friday. The following Monday, the owners of the Tube sites put out this press release, in an attempt to save their own asses.

  • Jay

    I’m a fairly smart guy, but I’m not sure what this article is implying. I wish you guys would explain it a little better.

  • Dee

    @19 http://www.cop-cms.com was registered:
    Creation date: 29 Dec 2009 17:09:57

    That’s before either launch.

  • Anonymous

    This is nothing more than a thief knocking on your door rather than breaking it down. COP-CMS is thievery!

  • Dudewtf?!??!

    Pro porn sucks. Homemade porn FTW!

  • Anonymous

    This is more like saying, “I’ve broken into your house several times and robbed you blind. But, now that your trade association is going to go after thieves, I’d like to sell you an alarm system.”

  • Anonymous

    They’re not even selling an alarm system. They’re saying, “Give us everything that’s left in your house and we’ll inventory it for you.” HAH!

  • Typo

    Why is this different to youtube, they have their own system and noone moans?

  • Anonymous

    I’ll say one thing for these two guys at COP-CMS. They’ve got balls.

  • Typo

    @25 The studio then downloads an application from our site which will create unique fingerprints for each of their videos.

    Doh, check facts then post.

  • Anonymous

    Because youtube did not begin as a site that stole other people’s materials. They began as a site for user-generated content, and addressed the problem of piracy when it arose. The difference here is that the COP-CMS, the people who now claim to want to solve the problem, are in reality the people who created the problem. They are the thieves everyone is trying to stop. I really shouldn’t have to explain this.

  • Typo

    You need to learn to read as well, try Viacomm vs Youtube. I can not see the logic in your argument, if they solve the problem then surely that’s all that matters?

  • Nate

    Why would any studio upload their videos to these guys? Would you let known thieves watch your house for you while you went away for the weekend? And why would porn studios that are producing strictly straight content sign up for a service that monitors a few gay tube sites. Something tells me you won’t be finding a lot of Jenna Jameson on gay tube sites. Duh.

  • Pico

    All ur pruns are belong to me!

  • Hmm

    *looks at the title*

    I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

  • NubCakes

    If anyone bothered to read the XBIZ article regarding A-PAP, the industry program it’s clear why the article was pulled. I fail to see the “fishy” connotation that has been insinuated here – why would XBIZ keep the article up when it’s effectively advertising to it’s members to use another product rather than the product affiliated (and profiting) XBIZ and FSC owners? FSC is not claiming to be a free speech platform for anyone despite the name as I’m sure you’re aware.

    Also why would content producers trust claims made by people regarding this anti-piracy “solution” when it is supplied by people who profit from piracy through site advertising? If anything that is the “fishy” part if this affair… sure, the anti-copyright infringment application may work exactly as advertised but there is the problem that the suppliers of the program stand to benefit if it doesn’t work as advertised.

    You can’t really expect an advocacy group for the adult industry to support this program considering this and then claim some conspiracy when they remove it from their own news site – especially as they have a competing product that they will presumably make a profit on.

    @Nate: “Why would any studio upload their videos to these guys?”

    Why aren’t you reading the comments and making assumptions from the article itself? They aren’t required to upload their videos.

  • Anonymous

    Not true NubCakes. FSC is a non-profit 501c(6) trade association. It runs on membership dues and protects the interests of its members–the adult entertainment industry.

  • Shaggy

    XBiz writer Mark Kernes is on the Board of Free Speech Coalition. This story is no surprise and is typical of FSC who, after years of coveting piraters as their members (while also studios) and taking no action to support any of the many copyright and trademark legislation. FSC is dishonest, opportunistic, and ineffective.

  • NubCakes

    Also the title is misleading – the providers of COP-CMS are not gagged, they’re welcome (I presuming) to market their solution to anyone they please still.

  • NubCakes

    “Not true NubCakes. FSC is a non-profit 501c(6) trade association. It runs on membership dues and protects the interests of its members–the adult entertainment industry.”

    eh? what isn’t true?

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  • Anonymous

    Of course they’re welcome to market their product to whomever they please–I haven’t heard anyone say that they don’t have that right. But, I think that, as the thread on gaydemon.biz indicates, anyone who would turn their property over to these people is a fool.

  • Izkata

    “Videos can be matched even if they’re blurred, resized, rotated or have sections removed. Our system is accurate enough to detect a video from just 1 second of footage”

    Coming from a CS perspective, this sounds like too-good-to-be-true BS…

  • redbaron

    There’s enough homemade and amateur stuff out in the internet and – really a shame! – most of the times better than the commercial stuff. :D Buying porn is illegal I say. :D

  • Dxx

    @40
    not a big deal if you place huge watermark on all image.

    but there is little problem to unmark watermarked video or severely corrupt its watermark.

  • fobia

    You know what just close the whole internet and tv , what’s the point.

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  • Borderliner

    The problem is, that the so-called “thieves” are offering a way for the owners to take away the material from the “thieves”, something the porn industry has been trying (or atleast claiming to try) to do all along. Now, instead of using the possibility they simply dismiss it.
    To put into another context: think of a TPB that had taken down torrents on request, but none of the mediacompanies/anti-piracy outfits would bother to use this solution. Who would be the badguy then, TPB who’s trying to work with the copyright owners or the copyright ovners who would rather sue downloaders.

    Now, if the solution is a scam then sure, but where’s the information on that? It wouldn’t have been hard for XBIZ to say “We won’t print the article, as our research indicates that it’s snake oil only meant to diminish our own product”. But have they?

  • Anonymous

    By all means Borderliner–send them your masters and let us know how it turns out.

  • lol

    ive never understood why you pay for porn..

    but mabye im missing somthing.. lol

  • Anonymous

    @45 The studio then downloads an application from our site which will create unique fingerprints for each of their videos.

    best to read b4 posting

  • Ad

    “Our system is accurate enough to detect a video from just 1 second of footage”

    I agree, it sounds like PR garbage that execs would eat up.

  • Just some guy

    Porn Studios Gag Rival …

    but not in a consensual “Hey, let’s experiment” kinda way

    /Quagmire

  • NubCakes

    I don’t see why a few people are making disparaging comments regarding the claims about detection – it’s not as though there aren’t other applications that have been out for years that accomplish the exact same thing. There are and yet apparently according you you computer scientists it’s “too-good-to-be-true”, gimme a break.

    There is always issues with false positives as you increase the “fuzziness” (prolly wrong word but don’t know how to say it otherwise) of the detection algorithm but that still doesn’t change the fact that others apps already do this.

  • Obedient

    The idea of “copyrighting” porn seems utterly ridiculous to me :-O

  • laughs at fools

    ..people watch streaming pron? why the hell would someone do that? its so much easier to DL tons of it from torrents, burn to discs for archives, and enjoy them in the future times when the internet is no longer able to be used in that manner.. it seems to me that this time is rapidly approaching, as greedy cocksmokers try and suck up all of society’s moneys.. they will settle for nothing less than total control of all media. take advantage while you still can, all of you!!

    watching steaming vids is for chumps..

  • Sceptre

    Paying money to watch people have sex??? Nothing but a big bowl of bullshit. Click Click Pull

  • Anony

    Was the use of the phrase “something smells fishy here” intentional?

  • Good Vibrations

    “its so much easier to DL tons of it from torrents”

    Right… Not:

    Porntube:

    1. Navigate to web page.
    2. Browse to video of your choice.
    3. Click video to play

    Torrent:

    1. Visit web page.
    2. Search or browse through torrent lists.
    3. Download torrent, add to client.
    4. Wait. Sometimes a long time but usually 30 mins or whatever.
    5. Wait while wanting to fap.
    6. Open video file to play.

    Which one was easier?

  • @54

    Quality from torrent sites rival dvd quality :) Tube sites are like poor mobile phone video recordings.

  • AnarchyNow

    Why would anyone PAY for porn, that’s prostitution and corruption. Amateur free porn is far better.

  • The Fapping Fapper

    *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap* *fap*… nnnnnnnggghhhhHHHHHH!!!!!

  • Al Goldstein

    I’m too old for this… :/

  • TerribleTony

    @55 Whilst the overall process of downloading a file through the bitTorrent protocol may be more clicks than watching a streaming video, the difference here is that when you’ve finished fapping you can save the rest for some other time. :D

  • Brilliant Death

    @60 Get yourself a stream downloader, like ‘Ant’, then you can quickly save lower quality tube vids to your loins content.

  • dwpbike

    i’m with #57. the porn industry is in its death throes. the amateur stuff is getting better every day.

  • Bisby

    “The pornography industry has larger revenues than Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix”.

    Yep, they’re going down. Really. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo, Apple and Netflix are in dire straights as they make less profit than pornography as well.

    Please have a semblance of knowledge before commenting next time. I hate to break it to you but the fact is that your imaginings that are inside your head are don’t have any relevance to the real world (that’s “not your imaginations”).

    It is really very easy to find reports containing the actual goings on in the world (stuff that happened in reality and not in your head) although granted it’s not as easy as just imagining how things are and then commenting.

  • fapman

    I like keeping my torrented porn thank you very much. Some may say I’m picky :P

  • john seered

    nice girl, but here they are better! fatush.netai.net

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