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There could be some really cool patents for this biz -- but it's really hard to tell who has first-use -- there were non-adult guys doing hardcore scripts way back in the day... you would read about the startups in WIRED magazine... but most of these scripts are born out of the necessity of the way the internet works... nobody really invented electricity -- we just discovered it...
There are some obscure scripted sites that broke new ground way back but they faded out -- like the old Monkey links multi-category toplist was an amazing script and the complete-free porndirectory was really some impressive code... but who really knows what innovations came first -- that code never gets released to the public...
When you release source code to the public you only set yourself up for trouble unless you obfuscate your code.
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