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Old 04-10-2006, 10:32 AM  
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*Bump* for an important thread.

The damnable hell is that if there's $$ or political capital in it for the schmucks on the hill, they wont' stop pushing it. Whether they ever get anything passed is irrelevant. They want the time on CNN to get their faces and names on voter's minds...that's it.

Guys, we all know that surfers are going to find a way. Porn is the reason the Internet exists in it's current form. Sure, Ebay and Amazon are neat...but let's be real...most guys aren't going to pay $50 /month and spend endless hours digging through Ebay looking for that special trinket to "really finish out" the whatever collection on the living room mantle.

If .xxx passes, so what? The biggest business online will immediately be a way around that. Maybe IP spoofers, maybe proxies, whatever it is, it'll work and it'll be $39.95, processed by somebody. All the offshore sites will do the grand majority of the business and most of the big boys know that and are already setup for it.

Let DC circle jerk one another and mind fuck middle America until they're blue in the face. As long as there's a demand, there will be a business and people will make money in it.
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