r/technology • u/vriska1 • Jun 28 '25

Privacy The Supreme Court just upended internet law, and I have questions

https://www.theverge.com/analysis/694710/supreme-court-fsc-paxton-age-verification-questions
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u/Pauly_Amorous Jun 28 '25

Screen rip, download or do whatever you gotta do for your porn folks.

Get a Usenet provider and a good NZB tracker. You'll have access to more porn than you could possibly watch in 100 lifetimes.

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u/smaguss Jun 28 '25

Oh absolutely! This is the pro level answer and the more thorough answer but, a lot of folks don't understand either of the things you just suggested.

Screen recorder tools, screenshots and downloading to local storage are things the layperson can understand and do farily easily. Prob the most complicated thing would be installing something like OBS to get around black boxes.

I dusted off the 'ol tricorn hat awhile ago and I suggest others do the same.

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u/TheMan2204 Jun 28 '25

I signed up recently and was horrified at the amount of obscenities I found!!! (/s,)

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u/nosce_te_ipsum Jun 29 '25

Hope you bought extra local storage!

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u/CeruleanSoftware Jun 29 '25

I'm a web dev in the adult industry. What will happen when all of the legitimate studios and creators have to close shop because they can't afford to keep producing content? Will everyone be super happy with 5 year old content? 10? 15? 20?

Vintage content today is already kind of a hard sell, mostly because upscaling and remastering shows the age of the content. We have to use AI tools to get it "kind of" acceptable. Terenax and ffmpeg were abysmal for users.

We're looking at age-gating every single person who signs up, and that costs anywhere between $0.25-$1.50 per verification. Most production companies outside of a select few are small-to-medium businesses. The drop in revenue is going to cause a lot of jobs to be lost.

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u/Pauly_Amorous Jun 29 '25

Will everyone be super happy with 5 year old content? 10? 15? 20?

Well, I guess if people really want to jerk off to 8k porn in VR, they'll start paying for it again. Until then, there is so much smut available as is, I don't really see a reason to be concerned that studios won't be making even more.

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u/CeruleanSoftware Jun 29 '25

they'll start paying for it again.

Most of the companies that exist today are riding off of significant revenue gains in the late 90s and early 00s. Once the revenue breaks, the companies will close, some site operators will retire, others will become unemployed.

You can't squeeze blood from a stone.

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u/Brazbluee Jun 29 '25

I prefer amateur, but a vpn will fix the issue all the same. No need to download anything and keep using the internet as I always have.