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Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Porn Industry Again at the Tech Forefront - Los Angeles Times

Porn Industry Again at the Tech Forefront - Los Angeles Times: "A top producer of hard-core porn will start selling downloadable movies that customers can burn to DVD and watch on their TVs, illustrating how Southern California's multibillion-dollar adult entertainment industry may again set the technological pace for Hollywood.

Letting people burn downloaded movies is considered key to the growth of online distribution. Despite the proliferation of fast Internet connections, most people still want to watch movies on television but lack an easy way to get them off the computer. Plus, hard drives can store only so many space-hogging movies.

Hollywood has resisted burnable discs that can be watched on televisions because they fear piracy. It also doesn't want to alienate retailers, which sell most of its DVDs. But if history is any guide, the online experiment by adult entertainment giant Vivid Entertainment Group will be watched closely by mainstream studio chiefs.

"The simple fact is porn is an early adopter of new media," said Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto. "If you're trying to get something established … you're going to privately and secretly hope and pray that the porn industry likes your medium."

Los Angeles-based Vivid will start selling burnable movies May 8 through online movie service CinemaNow. Marina del Rey-based CinemaNow last fall launched an adult service that it uses to experiment with features that might eventually become mainstream — such as pay-per-minute movie rentals and the ability to save favorite scenes.

Vivid, producer of such titles as "Bad Wives" and "Generation Sex," will offer 30 downloadable videos for about $19.95 apiece that include everything that is on a standard DVD — cover art, scene navigation, bonus material and deleted scenes. The finished disc will be copy-protected to deter piracy.

Despite their obvious differences, adult and mainstream entertainment companies face similar pressures in the Internet age. Both are grappling with how to deliver content securely and reliably to devices in a variety of ways, whether it's prepackaged on DVD for TVs or sent wirelessly to cellphones.

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Email Maxwell Hammer for tips, stories, links or comments. The sxxxy faq Whats the deal with this site? I started it in 2002, about Feb, I think. I got laid off from a job I'd had for several years. so while I was on unemployment. I played around with selling shit on ebay and that lead me to porn sites. I'd had a friend who did it, this crazy Bangladeshi guy named K Rahman. So I played with it for awhile. It didn't really seem to work, but then I started to get checks from places I couldn't remember. Not big ones, just $35 or so here and there. At first it was mostly weird sex news. That sort of led to celebrity sex gossip. I would break news but a lot of the big blogs wouldn't link to me because of my porn ads. So I spun that off into another site, hateon.blogspot.com. But that never seemed to take off. I'd sometimes get a few thousand hits, but it didn't do as well as sxxxy.org. But the traffic on that started to lag. I had repurposed it as a just weird sex news. Stuff about people covering hotel rooms in vaseline and fucking them. So I sort of deprecated hate on, though it still exists. I'm combining these sites. Because I found out that traffic and links from Perez Hilton might be cool but they don't make me any money. So now I don't get as may hits but I get more money. Why do some of these pictures of pictures of Carmen Electra say they are of Charlize Theron? One of the categories got fucked up when I was creating the site. I could go through them one by one and fix it, but that sounds really boring and I've got a lot of other things I'm working on with the site. So it will get done, but it's pretty low on the list. Some of these pics are duplicates/labeled wrong/whatever. Why don't you do something about them? Some things like that are going to happen. If you send me the link to the picture maybe I'll fix it. Or maybe you could take some damn initiate and register with the site and email me your username and I might give you admin privileges so you can fix it yourself. Do you know you're kind of a dick? Yep. But I'm funny. If you're into that sort of thing. There are a lot of ads here and some of them do weird stuff to my browser. Can you fix it? Yes. There are a lot of ads here. I'm trying to make money. I don't like begging or taking donations. But this is a for profit site. I don't make that much, really, I swear. I have to have a day job. If they do really weird stuff to your browser or there's a trojan or something let me know and I'll take it down. Where do you live? Really? In Alabama. I don't want anyone to know who I actually am here, locally. Some of this shit I do is probably illegal here. Why don't you move? Do you want to give me a job and a place to live? I'm broke. This site isn't enough to live on. I also have a lot of child support. You have children? Yes. Let's leave it at that, there was a custody battle but they never found out about the site. Let's keep it that way. Why Maxwell Hammer? I was listening to a lot of the Beatles at the time. I could have been Rocky Raccon...but that's my brother's name. Really. Now that I think about it King Marigold sounds good. But it was started on a game called Urban Dead where I was a known Player killer and troll. They still think I'm still there and just some sort of hydra troll that causes trouble under different names, but I swear that I haven't been there in years. There were people who took up my name and started doing things in my name and calling themselves my army. It's weird. I'm still some sort of legend around there, just under different names. But it's not me, I swear. Why is this page or that thing formated wrong or looks weird? It's a matter of time vs caring. I'm just sort of naturally sloppy and often don't care about some things. I cut corners. I'm the kind of guy who uses duck tape to fix things. I'm doing this by myself. I sit in front of a computer for 40 hours a week and then come home and do it for about 5 hours every night and more than that on weekends. Why do you do that to yourself? I don't know. I don't feel like I'm doing enough, though. There aren't enough hours in the day to do all the shit like this that I want to. Plus I write so I'm compelled to do that at times. It's like all this is against my will but I can't stop myself.