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[Thomas Beckett <thomas AT tbeckett.com>]

        A&E sells porn, too.  Tons of videotapes by directors like Candida
Royalle.  You know, the high class stuff.  And they've been producing
their own glossy porn videos for a few years now.  

        Incredible margins on those tapes.  They sell it for 3 or 4 times 
their
cost.

TaB

Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
> on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:18:28AM -0400, Joanna Wolfe (919)677-0977 wrote:
> >
> > http://computerworld.com/nlt/1%2C3590%2CNAV47_STO61275_NLTpm%2C00.html
> 
>   "We've been in business for 30 years. I don't know of any dot-com
>    that could even begin to match that," said Shea Tisdale, e-commerce
>    director at PHE Inc. in Hillsborough, N.C., which sells sex games,
>    videos and other products online.
> 
> Heh. "I don't know of any two-hundred year old airlines, either",
> Champeon said, with a donut in his mouth, trying not to laugh.
> 
> I mean, really. Adam and Eve isn't a porn site, is it? It's a catalog
> for the same stuff they sell in those "NEWS" stores on Capital
> Boulevard. Does everything that can't be shown on prime time fall into
> the category "porn" now? Here I was, thinking pornography referred to
> writing and other portrayals of acts and so forth designed to feed the
> prurient interest. I may be weird, but I rarely get excited about
> catalogs. :)
> 
> At any rate, I hope the exodus of skilled professionals from dotcoms
> into porn improves the overall quality of the genre ;)
> 
> Steve
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