Adult Entertainment Antes Up In DRM War

At the recent adult entertainment awards, host Greg Fitzsimmons highlighted the deep relationship between the internet and pornography stating "'The Internet was completely funded by porn,' he said [...] And if it wasn't for the Internet, he added, 'you guys would be completely out of business.' The audience, packed with porn actors and adult entertainment moguls like Jenna Jameson and Larry Flynt, roared with laughter." Now it appears that the adult entertainment industry has chosen to ante up in the DRM battle as well. Some companies have chosen to take sides, like Digital Playground who will be supporting Sony's Blu-Ray. Others, like Vivid Entertainment, seem to think that the answer is diversity and will be supporting both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD.

Re:Just Like VHS or Beta

[guaigean]

So basically, porn is the solution to overpopulation.

Boy you're late to the party - Usenet

[Colin Smith]

The web is a newcomer. The internet existed long before that. Usenet, email, gopher, ftp were the applications people were using and yes, distribution of porn was *very* popular.

 

Re:Power of porn?

[Anonymous Coward]

I work at a porn company.

My company has dedicated 26 Gigs of bandwidth, that during peak are all maxed out.
We have invested a lot into new technology.

The fastest web servers, fastest hardware, rate limiting technologies, hacker prevention, etc.
I know we push our hardware and software to its limits.

Our vendors like us because we find obscure bugs that no other company is capable of finding - very few companies on the internet are capable of even simulating the amount of traffic we have daily. Not only traffic, but the amount of users trying to hack our systems is astounding, which also pushes the technology to its limits. Our servers get over 150k hits a minute.

When a piece of hardware runs through our system, the vendors feel more assured at the capabilities of thier offerings.

There are many hardware and software companies in the world that happen to like our industry. They may not admit it publically, but they can't deny that no other customer is capable of ripping thier new child prodigy to pieces as fast and as "efficently" as we are.

If a bug or a hole exists, our users and bandwidth find it.

I personally like this industry, not for the content, but because I always get to play with the newest technological toys - We are at the front of the online industry, pushing the technology to its limits.

Re:MS DRM

[Rufus211]

A hack for DRM10 (what's on WMVs) has been floating around [doom9.org] for about a year now. Basically you play it normally and it intercepts the license. It then uses the intercepted license to decode the video.

Re:Power of porn?

[UserGoogol]

Yes, but he's not talking about the mid and late nineties. He's talking about the Internet's earlier growth in the eighties and early nineties. Usenet got things started and then WWW took things to the next level.

Not far off track.

[UnknowingFool]

My comments are not an endorsement of porn, but the porn industry deserves some credit for the adoption of many technologies on the internet in that it was a pioneer. It is not the only industry that has been instrumental, but given its taboo nature, it's not likely that it would get any public acclaim. The adult entertainment industry was always a pioneer in technologies like multimedia, streaming content, and secured online transactions. Adult websites were taking credit card payments long before Amazon.com existed. In almost every hotel room in America, you can get movies on demand. Some of them are most likely not G rated, and the industry was one of the first to offer that service to hotel guests. Other mainstream industries like Hollywood could have been the first but they were not.

Today it is a huge industry that is not as taboo as it once was. Its power and influence has given it the nickname "America's other Hollywood." A few years ago Frontline covered the industry in an episode entitled American Porn [pbs.org] which you can watch online.

um, porn did not fund the internet

[deejer]

The US Government did and then the telcos. Funding does not equal what it is used for.

The internet is an enabler for porn's continued funding.

Re:That emoticon is just so wrong for this discuss

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a big cock ejaculating into someone's mouth.

God forbid I get modded Informative for this.

Re:Just Like VHS or Beta

[Analog Squirrel]

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