As someone who's worked in the porn industry, I disagree with the comment that it's a "collection of other people's technology duct taped together." There was

As someone who's worked in the porn industry, I disagree with the comment that it's a "collection of other people's technology duct taped together." There was huge amounts of API work, design, scaling, distributed encoding and rendering farms, and a host of technology advances that we made to keep our sites functional. None of this was other people's tech. Think about all of the people who work in the gambling industry. It's quite similar.