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Porn makes the Internet go round.
Just turn off the safe filter in your favorite search engine. Porn site routinely make the top 10 of global web-site traffic. They are all high definition streaming services that innovate at an amazing rate. Mid-Video Advertisement technologies were born here. Complex tracking user identification was born here. Advanced graphics cards and huge fiber bandwidth data routing was not needed to serve up static text site in the 90's. It was needed to serve up porn, that's when the internet exploded and these high density bandwidth/compute technologies were given huge investments. The results of which advanced the ability to stream other video in a more mainstream market.

In the 80's Betamax died when the porn industry went in with VHS. In the 2000's, Sony did not make the same mistake. They watched courted this market during the high density disc wars and Blu-Ray won. Even in the world of blockbuster movies and streaming, porn makes up the largest percent of physical removable media usage.

However....many companies who live off this industry don't typically highlight it's importance to their bottom dollar.

Watch it, don't watch it, like it, hate it. The content drives the investments in key technologies that we all benefit from in the "main stream".