Interesting article yesterday on the complicated business dealings of we entrepreneur Richard J. Gordon, who with his company DTI has "yoked together disparate endeavors that
support pornography, the Bible, and prevention of animal abuse — all by
marrying the universal purchasing power of credit cards to the
respectability conveyed by slick Web sites."
There are no official numbers on the pornography
industry. But those who have studied its operations view DTI as a
pivotal player in the world of pornography. “DTI appears to rank in the
top 1 percent of adult entertainment companies in the world,” said M.
J. McMahon, publisher of AVN Online, an Internet news site covering the
industry.
The gist of the article seems to be that Gordon's non-smut customers may not have been aware of his involvement in companies like ClubLove, who gained prominence when they sold the Pam Anderson / Tommy Lee sextape back in the golden olden days of the web. Which, you know, OK. They don't wanna associate with that, we don't guess they have to. Still, it does seem like kind of a joke to us every time someone does business with a successful-yet-slightly-shady internet company and then they're like "Wha? Boobies?" (You guys know we get paid by the Sicilian Mafia here at Nerve, right?)
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