Originally Posted by V_RocKs

I have a number for you... It is the number of how much money is NOT spent on porn due to password cracking/trading sites, IRC channels, newsgroups, yahoo groups, etc...

And the number is:

Lets say the average payment is $28...

I know of 1 channel where in its height they gave out as many as 25,000 working passwords a day. I know of several that hit 10,000 and I know of about 30 that did 1,000 or more.

One such channel had a newsgroup that also gave them out to the tune of another 1,000 a day.

Then there are the 25 password boards that had real passwords...

Then the forums where another 10,000 or more were given out a day...

So lets add this up shall we?

Roughly that is 100,000 surfers that didn't pay for porn on any given day... or $2,800,000 a day lost...



In one year that translates into $1,022,000,000.00

And guess what? When I brought it up nobody gave a shit.