Porn is not immoral, but piracy is, was the firm message being delivered by Adult industry star Ron Jeremy as he spoke to TG Daily in Las Vegas.
Jeremy noted that whilst the Internet was once useful, it is now damaging the industry by allowing people to host free or pirated porn on sites like YouPorn and PornTube.
“People don’t care because they say, ‘ah, well, it’s just porn,’ but piracy is piracy, whether the film is PG, R or X. We deserve respect too,” said Jeremy, clearly unhappy getting ‘screwed over’, so to speak.
“Nobody cares,” lamented Jeremy shaking his head as he decried both the sites that hosted pirated content and those who downloaded it illegally, adding “The future’s not that bright. It will get brighter eventually but we have a big problem with piracy.”
Jeremy went on to lambast internet scammers and streamers alike, singling out Nigerians and Russians as the source of most Internet related woes.
“How many people fall for that? For those letters from Nigerian banks? You have a checking account? You’re rich? You’re still not safe. Someone asks you for the details you probably won’t give it to them but your grandparents, your grandparents might fall for that,” he said, adding “it’s the saddest thing I ever heard.”
“A lot of foreigners, and I won’t mention names, Russians, are coming to America and there are a lot, a lot, a lot of people who know how to use Wi-Fi, Internet, satellite to gather personal information about people and scam or steal. Russian.”
To clear up any misunderstanding, Jeremy added, “I don’t want to sound racist, because I am Russian, or at least my ancestors were Russian.”
But back then, we can only assume there was no Internet in the shtetl for great grandfather Jeremy to download pirated porn.
Curses of this modern day world, indeed.
