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Pullquote Highlights:
"It would seem that porn has become just another career that creative people latch onto in the fog following college"
"X-rated Internet sites have long been seen as an important new-tech pioneer, paving the way for family-friendly companies."
Cross References:
A Diciplined Business - about Kink.com - 60,000 subscribers at $30/month
"Then, after his first year, he read in a British tabloid about a fireman who sold pornographic pictures on the Internet. “He had made a quarter of a million pounds over a short period doing nothing very clever at all,” Acworth told me not long ago, pointing to the clipping framed in his office in downtown San Francisco. “So I basically just ripped off that idea.”"
"“You can’t just throw up an adult Web site and watch the dollars roll in anymore,” says Kathee Brewer, editor of the trade magazine AVN Online, which covers the online adult industry. "
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Then you have these articles that "uncover porn operating in the underground of Philadelphia" - a
Pornstar named Tommy Gunn and
Hotmovies - "
exposed" which was on the local news the other night.
It's funny because they aren't hiding a thing, they just aren't advertising it on billboards out front. Live and let live, more and more signs point to it being a legit business creating jobs for those in all walks of life and 80% of the jobs never even actually end up dealing direct with porn production.
Business is Business.
Is Porn Becoming a Legit Industry?
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