New Larry Flynt Interview: Print versus Internet, obscenity, the Patriot Act
Flynt's brand of populist porn has both fans and opponents. He has been the subject of numerous legal battles over porn and First Amendment issues, as well as a failed assassination attempt. Wired News spoke to Flynt in Los Angeles about the impact of technology on the adult industry and the state of free speech in America.
Wired News: How has the Internet changed porn?
Larry Flynt: It's had a dramatic effect. In the 1980s, publishing was 80 percent of my business. Now it's about 20 percent, and the rest is Internet or video. I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information. Now everybody does -- but some did in time, and some didn't. That's one of the reasons Penthouse filed for bankruptcy. They were relying totally on publishing. We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas.
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Larry Flynt
Wired News: How has the Internet changed porn?
Larry Flynt: It's had a dramatic effect. In the 1980s, publishing was 80 percent of my business. Now it's about 20 percent, and the rest is Internet or video. I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information. Now everybody does -- but some did in time, and some didn't. That's one of the reasons Penthouse filed for bankruptcy. They were relying totally on publishing. We knew in the early 1990s that we needed to diversify and branched out into a lot of different areas.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,...w=wn_tophead_1
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