The Internet is for...

I guess this song is right. The internet if for...

PORN!!!

It's a familiar pattern. Like the VCR and the DVD and the internet, the porn industry is leading the way to online movie sales.

Hollywood has been tiptoeing its way toward letting consumers buy a movie online, burn it onto a DVD and watch it on a living-room TV.

While the studios hesitate, the adult film industry is taking the leap.

Starting Monday, Vivid Entertainment says it will sell its adult films through the online movie service CinemaNow, allowing buyers to burn DVDs that will play on any screen, not just a computer.

The biggest hurdle facing the Hollywood movie industry, which makes more money on DVD sales than theatre tickets, is they are tied in to major retail outlets who would strongly object to studios selling direct to consumers. A challenge the porn industry apparently does not face. One spokesman for the porn industry said,

"We don't have to divvy up the pie."

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