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Originally posted by Mutt
it would be pretty easy to get a good estimate of the yearly revenues of the online porn industry. because there are only a handful of companies who process the credit cards for all Internet porn sites it becomes pretty simple. IBILL is part of a public company - so the financial records are there for how much they process a year. Then do a guesstimate of how much of the market IBILL has now - voila, you have a pretty good rough estimate of how much money online porn grosses.
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>The Tribune and Daily News both fell for one of the most common pitfalls of covering porn ? taking the participants? word at face value. As I learned the hard way while writing about the adult industry off and on for the past seven years, porn people are capable of looking you straight in the eye and telling you lies so convincing that even they believe them.
Since there is precious little reliable public data about the adult business, reporters depend to an unusual degree on the veracity of people who are accustomed to secrecy and deception, and who don?t always understand the nuanced differences between such terms as ?profits? and ?revenue.?
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=13212
and another one:
http://www.forbes.com/2001/05/25/0524porn.html
While the forbes article is the most outdated, the ways people try to guessimate what is going on will not change.
I have been researching this for several months. If anyone can me SOLID numbers I am all ears until then it is all guesswork. Guesswork can get you close but with so many companies hiding the fact they do have profits in porn, it will ALWAYS be difficult to determine exactly what kind of revenue is being generated.