R18 JAV site closing for good
Punksxc from what I’ve been reading, Fanza, DMM, R18 are all part of the same larger entity. R18 was the Western facing side of that. I’m guessing they could make links, to the content we purchased access to, available on the native Japanese site DMM, but they’re taking the conscious decision to be done with English speaking customers altogether now. If you’ve ever tried to navigate DMM as one who knows nothing more of the Japanese language than the lyrics to Mr. Roboto, you’ll probably conclude as I have that transferring licenses to that site for us would probably turn into a nightmare. Plus it reopens all the issues they’re having with Visa/MC all over again. This whole thing sucks. Doing away with DRM is something they’re never going to do as we also see with JAV on SLR — strictly streaming only. The rest of all this falls squarely with the thought/morality police over at the payment processors.
Philip Actually--and I hate to be that guy--there seem to now be ways to get credit card tied with crypto. It seems like the exchanges that offer them still require KYC which is a good thing here, but having a CC that way could be used for a variety of things such as buying groceries and other expenses. Also, I've noticed contractors in certain parts of the world with less than stellar banking reputations seem quite fine with accepting crypto. Thus, it's not a replacement for fiat, but it has a use.
[deleted] Credit card companies want to process for as much as possible. They just don't want to get into any legal trouble. If you want them to be more open, push for repealing obscenity laws. It's easy to be a keyboard warrior by sitting back and pointing fingers, but the problem is way more complex and we should be thankful the two giants have been vocal many a time about not wanting to decide what legal services to process for and what not to process for.
Punksxc DRM has a use, but I agree it appears like studios focus so much on 'copy guard' but bury their heads in sand when it comes to preventing actual piracy from happening that makes the situation a bit frustrating. At the end of the day though, in spite of this imperfect system, running a totally legal site makes it easy to rest easy at night compared to running a pirate site worrying if that sketchy ad network will actually pay on time, whether you'll wake up with a billion DMCA's, hard knocks on the door at 3AM, etc.
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ZENRA timeline of Primer
I got the reference immediately but had to go see what that would look like. Holy crap - the movie made my head hurt, even after three viewings - in fact getting to the periphery of understanding makes the head hurt even more. That diagram nearly made it explode!
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I'm still getting my mind around the plot of "Immortality"
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1350200/IMMORTALITY/
@doublevr and the good folks of SLR Originals need to hire those guys to shoot interactive porn. The game / film is visually stunning.
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What I'm wondering is if a studio or company like SLR that is in another country with different laws buys out their entire catalogue or buys out one of these Japanese studios, could they then get all the files and remove all the censorship and redistribute them without the blurring/censorship since they are now operating as a company outside of Japan?
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DRM is useless, JAV studios should know that. Their movies are pirated on the same day, so the one who gets penalized is the one who wants to pay for the content, but with DRM-free downloads.
SLR is a good example that you can maintain a digital video business with downloads without DRM.
There are many of us who want to pay for JAV VR movies even if they are available for free pirated, but we need the downloads to be able to use our own players and max image quality, streaming is a disaster, as proven with R18.
Punksxc Fanza/DMM/R18 is not a JAV studio. It’s more like a massive shopping mall of JAV studios. MOODYZ, SOD, S1, Hunter, KMP… all those major studios and so many more maintain storefronts on those sites. Like @ZENRA said, buying all of that as a catalogue would amount to thousands upon thousand upon thousands of titles. It’s beyond comprehension.
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RoccoVR could you list the 120 titles you purchased
oh, they weren’t VR. R18 never made it easy enough to watch VR for me to even bother trying. SLR is the studio that did that for those of us outside Japan.
All my content is will soon to have been 2D, and mostly from 2010-2016 … my pre-VR days. Not the best quality resolution wise, but man that was JAV at its heights. Incredible women, and so very very many of them, and the shit they would do
and the doubly mind-blowing thing was there was only like ten dudes in the business living out the dream amongst the throngs and throngs and throngs of perfect tens. Just insane. so sad to see the ending of that era.