One line in particular tells me they are clueless: "Tossing in the Internet will add less than $1 billion to the total porn pie." Now, in economic terms, $1 billion is pocket change. Several of our best-known corporations are larger than $1 billion, and I'm sure that the entire porn industry is bigger than any single company, no matter how large. Even Microsoft.
I worked for a major porn company in their Webmaster Services bureau for a brief while, and I know that they were sending out amounts to quite a few webmasters that were thousands of dollars a week. They had many hundreds of partners, and most of them received several hundred dollars a week.
Also, the article seems to center on profits, whereas the gross is what really matters to the economy. A company where the owner's profit is $75K might gross $300K-$500K. Of course, the difference between the net and the gross is going somewhere. In my case (and I purposely didn't use real figures in the above, BTW), I pay models, I buy wardrobe, I rent locations, I have Internet-related expenses, and so on. If someone just looks at my profits, that's a gross underestimate of my value to the economy.
Anyway, the article strikes me as BS.
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