[ih] Porn on the net

[Jared E. Richo]

On 9/19/2022 1:32 PM, Dan Cross via Internet-history wrote:

> I've heard that the long-term impact of pornography online is likely
> remarkable; apparently it drove a lot of demand for both bandwidth
> and robustness.  Specific rumors I remember hearing rumors that

 From what I have heard and read (a bit), that industry has been a big 
driver on improving image and video quality, as well as compression, to 
help deliver it reliably at higher quality.

Later than the rest, but ~ 1998, a small start-up pentest company I was 
involved in, we had a couple clients that were porn sites. We learned 
that many of them had started retaining security to test their sites. 
Why? Because they would do multiple photo shoots in a day but publish 
them on the site every X days or every week. Rival companies were 
figuring out vulnerabilities that gave them access to the pictures not 
yet disclosed, stealing them, and publishing on their own sites. One 
company told us that the one day of shooting might represent 8 - 10k so 
it was considerably valuable to them.