Global porn is huge....or is it?

I can see Sally Struthers now "For just ten cents a day, we can buy servers and webcams to help African children like little Marvin here have a better tomorrow".
 
Why doesn't anyone talk about the benefits that porn has had on society? The musical "Avenue Q" sing that "the internet is for porn", and that sounds funny, but a great big reason that the internet is such a financial success is because of porn. In the early days, porn sites were the only ones making money, and they kept the superhighway open.

And what about virus detection? Sure, they are a bunch of evil hackers trying to put porn on your home computer, but at least they're not trying to rob or kill you. Without such constant testing, anti-virus software would be helpless against a determined attack by truly evil forces.

I say let's all raise our... erm... glasses to porn.
 
Miss Anthrope said:
I can see Sally Struthers now "For just ten cents a day, we can buy servers and webcams to help African children like little Marvin here have a better tomorrow".
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I call upon the moderaters to ban anyone who brings up Sally Struthers in a thread about porn.
 
It seems to me that porn is even more bootlegged and copied than non-porn content. Who's paying for all this porn?

Charlie (cruising Usenet for "Art" pictures) Monoxide
 
Tricky said:
Ya know, she did a nude scene in an old Jack Nicholson movie, "Five Easy Pieces". She was hot too.
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That's possible- I vaguely remember her being cute in "All in the Family".

But she certianly wasn't cute in her "begging for Africa" period, and my mental image of her will forever be affected by her appearance in an episode of South Park.

On the other hand, I ought not ask for anyone to be banned for mentioning her, as I myself made a remark involving Sylia Browne and Jello wrestling.
 
Babbylonian said:
A tempest in a teabag?
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A brainstorm in a douchebag, more likely.

As to the OP, I guess a charitable porn site could donate a few percentage points for the folk of the Sudan:

Wank for Darfur is such a catchy marketing phrase.

DR
 
The neo-cons prefer trickle-down economics for their porn market. Televangelists preach against porn in order to solicit donations, which they can skim in order to pay for porn.
 
Ex-drone said:
The neo-cons prefer trickle-down economics for their porn market. Televangelists preach against porn in order to solicit donations, which they can skim in order to pay for porn.
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Why do you hate America?
 
Question: Do people actually assume that the money somehow "disappears"?
 
Tricky said:
Why doesn't anyone talk about the benefits that porn has had on society? The musical "Avenue Q" sing that "the internet is for porn", and that sounds funny, but a great big reason that the internet is such a financial success is because of porn. In the early days, porn sites were the only ones making money, and they kept the superhighway open.
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Prove it. You can't because it isn't true. The early days of the internet were funded by universities goverments and private individuals. These days adsense, ebay, amazon, ISPs, goverments, Universities and private individuals.

There was a point when venture capitalists had a large impact. Porn doesn't appear to have been a driveing force at any time.
 
geni said:
Prove it. You can't because it isn't true. The early days of the internet were funded by universities goverments and private individuals. These days adsense, ebay, amazon, ISPs, goverments, Universities and private individuals.

There was a point when venture capitalists had a large impact. Porn doesn't appear to have been a driveing force at any time.
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Here's a little something: link

"Of course pornography has played a key role in the Web," said Paul Saffo, an analyst with Silicon Valley think tank Institute for the Future. Explicit images have been key in the advent of many technologies, he said. "Porn is to new media formats what acne is to teenagers," he said. "It's just part of the process of growing up."
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Mainstream companies almost never specify how much money they earn from the skin trade. "They don't like to talk about it," said Sasa Zorovic, an analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. "It's a huge, huge market. Yet no one will say a word about it."

Interdependent relationship

Rob Enderle, a tech industry analyst, said that technology and pornography have an interdependent relationship that tech pundits don't often acknowledge.

"So much of the technology that we're using now for less risque purposes had its origins in porn," said Enderle, who pointed to online "streaming video" as one major example of a technology that was driven by porn in its early days.
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Also for Geni, here is a transcript of an article no longer available at The Age website from 1999 detailing how the porn industry was one of the earliest of the online pioneers, and that it was them who caught on quickly to the opportunity of a new business model and began profiting quite early.

When there were just a few sites online, the sex sites quickly became focal
points for early web surfers. "Adult sites saw massive amounts of traffic
early on, and a subsequent need to service that many people," says Mark
Tiarra, chief executive of Tiarra, which offers site design services for
adult web masters. The early sex sites needed to respond quickly to massive
use because when a server went down and lost traffic that meant lost revenue.

Although not necessarily credited with inventing these technologies, adult
webmasters were the first to figure out how to put them to profitable use.
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It's a lengthy but informative article. Have I proven Tricky's contention now?
 
:( I looked through this entire thread and other than Miss Anthrope's provocative skirt I saw nothing of prurient value. Please don't use "huge" and "porn" together without something close to a money shot.
 
RandFan said:
:( I looked through this entire thread and other than Miss Anthrope's provocative skirt I saw nothing of prurient value. Please don't use "huge" and "porn" together without a something close to a money shot.
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(Again, no one ever notices the panties are at the ankles. Sigh.)

C'mon Rand, are you saying you aren't giddy at the whole ethopian porn thing?:D
 
Miss Anthrope said:
Here's a little something: link
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nyet.

The idea of streaming videos predates the web (it goes back to 1988) and the first technologies to do it were developed by 1995 by GTE Laboratories. People involved early on would be the likes of itv.net ,InterVox Communications, and Broadcast.com. News and sports fairly standard stuff. By the late 90s you've got the likes of the BBC involved.

So the devlopment was academics and the early drive was news and sport.
 
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