Early this year, Pornhub claimed to have close to 2 petabytes of video. Other 
sources suggested it was barely over 1 petabyte. Pornhub is the largest, but 
only one of several thousand sites serving this kind of video.

davew

On Sat, May 2, 2020, at 10:06 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Steve writes:

> 

> < Hard-line "invisible hand of the market"-eers will insist that if it exists 
> in our economy, that it *must* be of interest/value/use to *many* (or at 
> least some). Invoking the idiom of "follow the money", I agree that we *can* 
> follow a chain of implied value that leads from the most marginal or absurd 
> to the common and mundane. >

> 

> I had a similar thought when I saw this <https://vimeo.com/372265771> video. 
> One can’t simultaneously be sympathetic to this initiative and believe in the 
> invisible hand of the market. I haven’t found good recent documentation, but 
> I’ve heard that on the order of 30% of internet bandwidth has been used for 
> pornography.

> 

> Marcus

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