[RawAlex]

Any studio that thinks a single DVD of anything is worth that kind of price is certainly missing the boat. The real retail price is much lower these days, like it or not. The good news for them is that the costs for producing the content is lower, the equipment required to film it, edit it, and turn it into a DVD is lower, the process faster.

That being said, the real issue of piracy is that it kills the method by which you can lower the price, the proverbial "make it up in volume". I spent enough time chatting on piracy support sites to realize that any price is too much for many of these people now, they will waffle and complain about "not available in my market" or "not in the format I want", but when it's offered up in their market, in their format, at a low price... they still pirate it for vague reasons they can't even explain. Those people use to be the volume, the scale that paid for much of it.

The good news is that there is still a good, solid market for certain types of porn, but it's narrowed down every day by piracy.

The only other good news? Piracy is on it's back heels right now, with plenty of legal action happening and in process of happening that is making it harder and harder for the public side sites to stay up. To me one of the most interesting judgements recently was the guy found liable for stuff that came off of the TOR exit he was hosting. It's good to see the courts look at a situation and realize that there has to be some responsibility somewhere in the chain. If you cover up for a criminal, then you become the criminal. When the pirates can't hide so easily, they may consider not doing it so publicly.