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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Computerworld article on Shea Tisdale
  • Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 11:25:12 -0400


on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 11:08:45AM -0400, Thomas Beckett wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, but it's still basically just a catalog for atoms, not bits, right?
When I think "online porn industry" I don't think "catalog", I think of
that kid in Seattle who runs like 40% of the multi-billion-dollar industry
that started out as alt.binaries. (I forget his name, he was in Wired a
few years back - Something like Sam Kamchatka.)

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

I don't doubt it.

Nothing new, anyway:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/cybersex.html?pg=1&topic=

The article's sort of stupid (it says that Howard Rheingold invented
"dildonics", which is absurd - it was Ted Nelson, and he called it
"teledildonics". Anyway. Heh.)

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