In the tech world, porn quietly leads the way
 

(CNN) -- It was just days after the release of the iPad -- Apple's slate computer heralded as a tool for gaming, book and magazine reading and Web consumption -- when the announcement arrived.

One of the world's biggest porn companies claimed it had created a way to stream its videos onto the device, skipping the Apple store and its restrictions on salacious content.

The announcement illustrates a widely acknowledged but seldom-spoken truth of the technology world: Whenever there's a new content platform, the adult-entertainment industry is one of the first to adopt it -- if they didn't help create it in the first place.


http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/23/p...ex.html?hpt=C2

people in the mainstream media love that myth.

Latest technologies always win it.

Nobody can compete with a new invention.

what he said

I love this part....

"While the shadowy nature of the adult-entertainment industry makes exact figures hard to nail down, it's generally acknowledged that porn was the first product to make money on the Internet and still rakes in upward of $1 billion annually online. "



"Shadowy" ! LOL

You guys are just so shadowy. :1orglaugh

tell that to the idiots who keep railing against bit torrent

we are railing against PIRACY not your VCR rights, nor technology itself.

300,000 people came home ...and needed soemthing to do!

$4mil????

Nothing new here.

yep. porn hasnt dont anything innovative since 1999. everything is re-used ideas or old tech here.