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Porn Industry Mulls Next Generation-DVD
MBCook writes "ZDNet has an interesting article about how the porn industry might end up deciding the outcome of the HD-DVD/Blu-ray debate. One side likes the higher capacity of Blu-ray, while others like the lower costs of producing HD-DVDs. Manufacturing 11,000 titles a year, the industry would have a sizeable say in the debate."
One only has to look to the Betamax to find a superior home entertainment technology that lost partially because the porn industry embraced the competitor. (actually, IIRC, Sony refused to license the beta to porn).
If you check one of the links in the Betamax Wikipedia article you linked to, you'd notice this article debunking the Betamax player superiority as a myth.
The article has several good points, although it's sometimes hard to tell what can be attributed to hindsight and what can't. Anyhow I think it's safe to say that "Betamax > VHS" is a huge oversimplification.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
That's what sublimedirectory.com and thehun.com are for... Finding porn sites that don't exactly make spidering their images difficult:
..
#!/bin/bash
count=10
x=1
while [ $count -ne "86" ]; do
mkdir "thumbs$count"
cd "thumbs$count"
while [ $x -lt "16" ]; do
if [ $x -lt "10" ]; then
wget "http://www.my-thumbs.com/ne-$count/0$x.jpg"
else
wget "http://www.my-thumbs.com/ne-$count/$x.jpg"
fi
let "x += 1"
sleep 3
done
cd
x=1
let "count += 1"
done
Well, they paid me $10/hour cash and I was able to do my college schoolwork while getting paid, and program in my spare time. An investment in pr0n that paid off!
Prime example of scum:
4:00 am in the morning, customer walks in, browses movie boxes in another room. Nothing unusual, men will spend hours picking out porn. 5:30 am, I look at the camera, see the person looking behind him. Suspicious activity, no one looks around unless they are trying to be secretive.
I walk back there quietly, the man is wearing sweat pants with his hand in there, while looking at a movie box with the other hand.
I say, "Excuse me, you're going to have to leave."
His response, "What?"
I then say, "Your hand is in your PANTS. You have to leave." At the time of me saying this, his hand was still there.
He pulls it out, walks into the other room with the mags and such, goes to look at a magazine as I say, "I'm going to call the police unless you leave."
On his way out, he says to me rather angrily, "You shouldn't be looking at guys dicks anyways."
I respond, "Well, maybe you shouldn't be wacking off in the store anyways, get the f*** out."
Apparently he was rather pissed I didn't let him finish up or something.
So... tell me the last time you wacked off in a pr0n store to some boxes. Now that's scum to me.
According to a former girlfriend, who worked for an independent video store, porn accounted for over 50% of their rentals. The other half was mostly niche/non-mainstream stuff which Blockbuster didn't have a good selection of -- anime, arthouse stuff, and foreign films.
Before Blockbuster opened, people would come in and get a "regular" movie or two, and maybe a porno. After Blockbuster opened, the customres would just get the porn, because they were getting the new releases at Blockbuster (and blockbuster doesn't rent porn).
It's hard for an independent to compete on new releases, when BB is getting 50+ copies of every movie [at a hefty discount] and the independent can afford maybe 5 copies [at full price].
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?