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Intellectual Property

Apr. 10, 2008

Porn Meets the Pirates

The massive pornographic movie industry that populates the San Fernando Valley has been as much a victim - if not more - of intellectual property theft as its upscale neighbors across the hill in Hollywood.


      The massive pornographic movie industry that populates the San Fernando Valley has been as much a victim - if not more - of intellectual property theft as its upscale neighbors across the hill in Hollywood. But from the earliest days of videotape, when the major film studios chose to fight the technology tooth and nail, the adult film industry has taken a different approach to piracy. They adapted to each new device that came down the pike -...

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