After reading the news on a daily basis concerning the Swedish Pirate Bay trial and the Anti-Pirating Bureaus(Anti-Pirat byrån) attempt to bring every person in Sweden to trial for these terrible crimes against rich people I stumbled into a blog (and I don't usually read blogs) that mentioned that in Germany there was a porn company sending out letters to internet users that they had to pay for some porn movie they had downloaded via BitTorrent.

As the music and film industry has been the toughest to enforce the new anti-piracy laws in each country this article made me think.

The Porn industry must lose a hell of a lot of money on illegal file sharing. If I download a movie there are a few reasons that anyone can mention; maybe I don't want to pay, maybe I don't think there is a good legal option or maybe I'm just lazy.

Porn purchasing however has a few other angles.

If you have a secret perversion that you don't want to tell anyone about or perhaps really don't want anyone to know that you are interested in porn, then file sharing is be perfect.
To nobodies surprise, internet holds a lot of porn. I would really like to see figures on how much of the porn on the internet that breaks copyright laws and how many of the movies illegally shared that are actually porn-movies.

In Sweden we just got the new IPRED law that basically gives the big companies all the power they need to find pirates. It is seen by many as a just cause since the poor companies are loosing money. I wonder if people would still hold the same sympathy if the porn industry joined the fight on their side. Demanding hundreds of thousands of dollars for Debbie...