Girls on film: Australia's 'reality porn' king

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/girls-on-film-australias-reality-porn-king-20121112-29750.html

by petercooper • 14 years ago

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dguaraglia2• 14 years ago

To be honest, I don't see how this has anything to do with the ethos and general topic of HN. Flagging.

petercooper2• 14 years ago

It's about an entrepreneur who built a business from scratch and how he got to the stage of building said business. That has everything to do with HN. Far more so than a JavaScript date picker or how airport security is "killing us" (which violates the 'If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic' guideline by a country mile.)

ChuckMcM2• 14 years ago

Except perhaps there isn't a whole lot of mystery about how to make a porn site, or that such sites make a lot of money, or that law enforcement and the legislative bodies will attempt to shut them down.

olog-hai• 14 years ago

From the HN Guidelines[0]: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

[0] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

dguaraglia2• 14 years ago

Oops, sorry, missed that one. Considering the bad karma I got from my comment, I'll definitely follow that guideline from now on :)

czervik• 14 years ago

fwiw, I read HN daily and found this article more interesting than most of the posts on here.

ojiikun• 14 years ago

This is actually a pretty interesting story. AW well and truly disrupted the online porn industry decades before "disrupt" was a buzzword. They valued transparancy, connected with customers, had a web style that was vastly different than the competition, and managed to get into a crowded market. Heck, the way they openly showed behind-the-scenes stuff and posted about what gear they used gave them an almost Open Source feel.

What's really interesting is what's come out about how the "founder"'s story was actually a fraud, and how puritans in the government eventually drove them to the other side of the world.

Think what you will about the appropriateness of their product, but I guarantee you that their website has seen more pageviews per day for the last decade than any project to which 95% of us have ever contributed.

Girls on film: Australia's 'reality porn' king

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