Net Porn Is Big Business
from the well,-of-course-it-is dept
In case you weren't sure, it turns out that online porn is big business in the US. Some lucky Datamonitor "researchers" got to investigate the topic in a recent report, which found that online porn is a $3 billion business these days, and in many ways has become mainstream. The article quotes the usual suspects complaining about how damaging porn is to society and even mentions that the state of Utah is planning to offer a "virtual 911 button" that people can press any time they get porn spam - which will simultaneously block the user from receiving any more spam from that particular sender while notifying Utah's attorney general. Yeah, I'm sure that will stop porn spam. Why didn't anyone think of that before?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Yeah, that will stop it...
RECV FROM: billg@microsoft.com
SUBJECT: Cool new website...
Here is my cool porno website...
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Blocking microsoft.com,
notifying attorney general.
Pretty cool denial of service tool, heh?
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