Innovation’s dirty secret
IDEA No 25
PORNOGRAPHY
Every time you buy something online, watch a video on YouTube, upload a piece of user-generated content or chat with someone via Skype, you should say a quiet thank you to the porn industry.
Danni Ashe, founder of Danni’s Hard Drive.
In the early days of the internet, before the birth of the Web, conversations and file sharing took place on bulletin board systems (BBSs). It was not long before images scanned from magazines were uploaded and shared with scant regard for copyright. Even in the early 90s, before there were graphics on the Web, enterprising individuals were creating pornographic pictures ...
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