YNOT – Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Diane Duke address the adult entertainment industry’s battle against content pirates as part of a panel discussion during the inaugural Distributed Computing Industry Association P2P & Cloud Media Summit Thursday.The summit, to take place at the Loews Santa Monica (Calif.) Beach Hotel, coincides with the Digital Hollywood Spring conference.

According to promotional materials, the summit “will explore current policy, technology and content issues as well as next-generation business opportunities related to [peer-to-peer] and cloud-based commercial offerings.” Duke is scheduled to be part of a 12 p.m. panel entitled “Key Challenge — Balancing Monetization and Anti-Piracy Efforts to Maximize Profitability.”

Among the topics the panel is expected to address are business models that show the most promise in the P2P and cloud-based content-delivery environments, paradigm modifications that may help harness P2P and file-sharing technologies, and optimization of security solutions and other developments that will benefit users of P2P, cloud-based and assisted-peer distribution platforms.

“I think it is important that the people creating these new content delivery platforms understand the impact of piracy on the entertainment industry overall,” Duke explained. “Both content providers and platform creators need to think ‘outside the box’ about potential delivery systems and business models that will broaden access for consumers while providing revenues for the creators of the content.”

Duke’s panel appearance is timely since FSC recently launched its Anti-Piracy Action Program for adult content producers, as well as two FSC-produced anti-piracy public service announcements videos that have received more than 275,000 YouTube views thanks to coverage on Wired.com and MediaBistro.com and in the Los Angeles Times and The New York Times.

Duke’s fellow panelists include independent producer Melike Amjarv, Copyright Clearance Center’s Chris Kenneally, BUZZMedia’s Mike Lewis, BayTSP’s Lawrence Low and Game Based Monitoring’s Gabe Zichermann. We Get It Consulting’s Laura Tunberg will moderate the discussion.

For more information about APAP or the FSC, visit FreeSpeechCoalition.com.