Folks: Okay, I just have to jump in here. I was in the "Adult Products and Entertainment" industry not too long ago.
>>I think there is one point that is missed on this issue. We're giving the >>porn industry credit for being pioneers in many fields, but the real >>question is: >>Would we have dealt with those issues without the porn industry and how far >>behind are we? I'm guessing we were/are right on their tails and every one >>of those concepts would have been solved (perhaps in a better way, perhaps >>worse) without that industry. I firmly believe that many of the eCommerce techniques and technologies (credit card processing, customer relationship management, advertising, etc.) in practice today did originate in the Adult Entertainment Industry. Heck, we pioneered just about every aspect of eCommerce (shopping carts, pay-per-view, subscription services, etc.) To this day, the single most successful industry on the web is *Adult Content*. Period. Always has and always will be. (Now whether this is the "way it should be" is a moral topic we should take up elsewhere.) I would say that all of these techniques would have been developed over time. I would also say that the rate of development of said technologies is credited to the Adult Industry. We really HAD no choice - the dice has been rolled elsewhere... We responded to what Web users wanted, and we gave them just that! The results have become today's "Best Practices". Just my 2 cents! Cheers, Christian N. Abad ColdFusion Web Developer and Ex-Adult Industry Guru! ______________________________________________________________________ Why Share? Dedicated Win 2000 Server � PIII 800 / 256 MB RAM / 40 GB HD / 20 GB MO/XFER Instant Activation � $99/Month � Free Setup http://www.pennyhost.com/redirect.cfm?adcode=coldfusionc FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
