Porn and the Government

             People like sex. Many advertisers entice potential customers by using sex appeal to reel them in. Where would Madonna and Brittany be if it weren't for their usage of sex appeal? Internet Porn is a $1 billion industry (Forbes.com) and it wouldn't be there if people weren't buying it. On one episode of Sex and the City (aired on HBO), the character Samantha tells her friends, "You must try the internet, IF only for the porn!"
             Sex on the Net is the biggest underground business in the world. It attracts tens of millions of users. Online pornography was the first consistently successful e-commerce product and contributed greatly to the Internet's explosive growth. These adult sites gave us technological advances in advertising, user tracking, and e-commerce that have now spread throughout the Web.
             But because of societal disapproval and fear of legal prosecution, the porn industry on the Internet remains largely underground. Mainstream analysts hardly comment on it, and accurate statistics are extremely hard to come by (for instance, estimates range from 20,000 to 7 million active X-rated sites on the Net). Besides societal disapproval of obscenity there are also issues such as child porn, and illegal photographs circulating the internet which brings up a major concern.
             In any legitimate adult shoot, every model must show proof of age and sign a release giving the photographer the rights to sell the pictures. In the last two years, self-regulation has become an accepted reality, and most photographers can no longer sell material without the right paperwork. The risks to Webmasters for copyright infringement or a visit from a child porn crackdown squad are too expensive to ignore.
             As of now, there are no real internet regulations supported by the U.S. Government about internet porn. Using a photograph illegally coexists with copyright laws, and child pornography is punishable as an issue in itself...

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