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Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets

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Re: Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets

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Post by ryanlol »

ChrisBland wrote: post #67
ryguytilidie wrote: post #40

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But why? Seriously, I don't see why this is an issue. If I rent out my home and a couple stays there. I imagine some sex may happen there. I wouldn't care. If I rent out my home and some people have sex on camera there, and the house is returned to me in the same state, I don't care. Why do you believe this requires a law...?

I think you are being too specific in what you are saying is an issue. If you rent out your house on AirBnB, you are not expecting commercial business to be done in your home. Would you be upset if someone rented your home on AirBnB and then ran a small sweatshop out of it? What if they used it as a temporary slaughter house for animals? The base fact is they used a private property for commercial purposes when they…

Why would any of those things be a problem as long as the house is either properly cleaned afterwards or the cleaning fees are paid.

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Post by ryanlol »

sp332 wrote: post #31
huac wrote: post #25

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Airbnb prohibits commercial videos/photos without permission, according to the article.

But what recourse does the homeowner have in that case? And being banned from AirBNB is not really a huge deterrent. Making the behavior illegal would give you more options if it happens to you, and might really make someone think twice.

Homeowners already have a plenty of recourse in the case of damages. It's called, you know, courts?

In the case of non-damages, what recourse do you really need?

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Post by rl3 »

ryanlol wrote: post #86
rl3 wrote: post #83

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Sure, but it would still create a legal mess and/or a large headache.

No it wouldn't cause anything at all. Nobody sane would sue for that because they might as well be taking a pile of money and setting it on fire.

>Nobody sane would sue for that because they might as well be taking a pile of money and setting it on fire.

In other words, basically what major copyright holders do every time they file lawsuits against P2P users en masse. Seems to me they're already adept at setting large piles of money on fire.

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Post by sandworm101 »

marincounty wrote: post #89
mturmon wrote: post #41

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"Lol. The data on a form filed for a porn shoot at a particular location will not find its way into the hands of someone renting on airbnb." Hmm, if I understand you correctly, you are mistaken. If the permit is filed, the homeowner and the nearby homeowners will get paper notices taped to their doors a couple of days before the shoot (like this: http://www.wehodaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/filming-... ). The…

I was involved in the porn industry, by a weird combination of life forces. Basically, my mom's boyfriend thought we could make some money. He was an Israeli immigrant, and desperately wanted to get out of landscaping. I felt his pain. I was recovering from a nervous breakdown, and needed a job that wouldn't physically wreck me. We decided to sell video tapes. I'm not proud of it, but it happened. We flew down to Los…

That does sound like LA in the 80s/90s. Things are a little different now. Since the internet (credit cards) it isn't a cash business anymore. They have also dropped any attempt at "movies" or even titles. Individual scenes are now standalone products for websites. And those websites do keep an eye on their material. The days of stealing a bunch of scenes to release a few hundred VHS cassettes to be sold for cash are gone.

But some of the stereotypes remain. The girls are still treated like commodities to be managed and forgotten once they start speaking up about things like contracts.

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Post by sandworm101 »

chimeracoder wrote: post #54
sandworm101 wrote: post #52

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Non-porn people are very capable of making a real mess. Talk to any hotel cleaner. People get drunk, they bleed, they get sick and even die, the later being very rare in porn.

> Non-porn people are very capable of making a real mess. Talk to any hotel cleaner. I'm well aware that sex can be messy, and I still maintain that professional pornographic shoots are far worse. It sounds reasonable to compare the two, unless you've ever been on the set of a professional pornographic shoot.

I didn't mean sex, just that people can make a huge mess no matter what they are doing.

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Post by c3534l »

chimeracoder wrote: post #76
c3534l wrote: post #37

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The measure probably passed in order to discourage porn from being shot there.

> The measure probably passed in order to discourage porn from being shot there. That's a reasonable guess, but once you look at the pattern in Michael Weinstein's behavior, it's clear what his real motives are. Weinstein is the president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which championed the initiative. The AHF has done good things in the past, but as of 2016, it's doing far more harm than good. Weinstein has a rea…

That's one person and you need an entire electorate to enact a proposition. Many (but not all) probably would have voted for an outright ban.

Re: Porn Industry Using Airbnb Rentals as Film Sets

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Post by pessimizer »

rl3 wrote: post #94
ryanlol wrote: post #86

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No it wouldn't cause anything at all. Nobody sane would sue for that because they might as well be taking a pile of money and setting it on fire.

> Nobody sane would sue for that because they might as well be taking a pile of money and setting it on fire. In other words, basically what major copyright holders do every time they file lawsuits against P2P users en masse. Seems to me they're already adept at setting large piles of money on fire.

They only file those suits to get addresses, and use them to send out letters asking for cash not to sue. They usually don't sue anyone, and make a fortune.
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