
Episode 1: Porn Meets the Internet
Hot Money: Agent of Chaos
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How Cheap Sites Got Away With Not Polcing What Gets Up
Cube sites and porn studios did end up in a kind of uneasy truce. Studios would buy adds or post short clips like, you know, teasers. This hypothetically would get people to clip k through and pay to watch the rest of the video. But the problem was, the money was never as good. There is a universal law of on mine corn. Visits to tube sites last an average of eight minutes. And there aren't that many people who will feel the need to bite a whole video after they've finished their business. These tube sites just didn't have a good enough reason to police the content. That was true for stolen movies, but it was also true for other
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