from www.tech.blorge.com – Although the RIAA and MPAA have stopped suing P2P users for piracy, the porn industry has decided to take on the task of ridding the Web of file swappers. To show how committed they are the purveyors of porn have set a goal to stop P2P porn piracy within 15 months. That’s a pretty tall order considering that the RIAA and MPAA failed.

According to Ars Technica, the porn industry held a “content protection retreat” (CPR)” in Tucson spear headed by Pink Visual, “a reality and gonzo pornographic film production company”. The company convened the secret Pow Wow in order to devise a strategy for ending porn piracy.

Invited were law groups, like Media Copyright Group and the Minneapolis/Chicago company, that have made a business out of suing P2P “John Does” for copyright violations. The lawyers are best known for their deals with independent film makers.

The model couldn’t be simpler: find an indie filmmaker; convince the production company to let you sue individual “John Does” for no charge; send out subpoenas to reveal each Doe’s identity; demand that each person pay $1,500 to $2,500 to make the lawsuit go away; set up a website to accept checks and credit cards; split the revenue with the filmmaker.

This process should prove even more lucrative than their indie money maker. Most people who frequent porn sites are not interested in having their identities known. The idea of there being a public record that reveals that they are frequenters of sites like…(well most of them aren’t printable) would scare them into paying just about anything to keep that from happening. This is especially true if they are married or have a job that involves the public like teaching or politics.

For the lawyers, this looks to be one of the more lucrative markets in which to ply their trade. Few if any porn pirates are going to be willing to challenge these lawsuits in court. While the lawyers may rake in quite a lot of money from these cases, the porn sites themselves may find that they lose subscribers.