TorrentFreak is reporting that porn industry leaders met in a three hour conference designed to come up with effective methods of fighting torrent-shared porn. Possibilities include creating a porn-based RIAA/MPAA analogue and creating forums where users can be rewarded for turning in leads pointing to stolen content.

I don’t really see either of these being all that effective, they could really learn from the mistakes made by the RIAA and MPAA here, both of which have (despite their best efforts) failed to stop the sharing of copyrighted material.

People are going to steal and share copyrighted work until the end of time, perhaps it is time for these industries to provide a low-cost online distribution method that encourages people to buy instead?