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How the Internet killed porn

3 pointsby tgrassalmost 13 years ago

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bediger4000almost 13 years ago
I like Theroux, he's really smart, and not afraid to ask hard questions. But I think he missed something about the US porn industry. It was sort of the reverse of the MPAA movie industry, in that lots of money went in the bottom, for VHS tapes, magazines, XXX theatres, etc, and very little came out the top. It appears that "actors", "producers" and "directors" were all paid a marginal amount. Were did the rest of the input money go? My guess is to the Mob or to various Mobs, but who really knows? Maybe it was all money-laundering in the first place.