Why doesn't porn software exist?

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by pnnbaa

I can think of two reasons such software might never come to pass:

1) The porn industry would never allow it. If you can design porn stars and make them do what you want, why would you want to buy the real thing anymore? A lot of jobs are at stake here (production crews etc)

They don't really have any control over it. The porn industry can't even prevent piracy, which is illegal .. . how are they going to prevent software, which is legal?

Originally Posted by pnnbaa

2) Inevitably somebody will use the software to produce illegal content, and the supreme court has already ruled that simulated / animated illegal pornography is the same as real. Thus making such software would involve legal peril and possible liability. Not worth it.

No, the Court ruled on this in Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, and found just the opposite
http://supreme.justia.com/us/535/234/case.html

And that's for the folks who actually create the content-- the folks who make the software with which end users make something else are not going to be threatened.

Software manufacturers aren't liable for what you do with their software, any more than Nikon is responsible for the photographs you take. Generally speaking, the content (eg digital models) are provided separately from the underlying software platform/render engine, and what you do with it is what you do with it

Originally Posted by pnnbaa

Still, it's fun to imagine how such software would work. Porn star designer (or pick from existing templates, some with suspiciously similar bodies as real porn stars, heh) then pick a locale, music, and make them do what you want. Share with your friends. Yowza!

You're basically describing an application available today, called "iClone".

[teatsfan]

Maybe it'll be reality sooner than anyone can imagine. This was just in the news lately:

Japanese Scientists Create Touchable Holograms