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...game-winner, Jan Hrdina dug the puck out along the boards and chipped it ahead to Miller, who fed it up-ice to Jagr as he shed defender Mattias Ohlund to easily beat goaltender Corey Hirsch with a wrist shot...
...Mayor Rudy Giuliani padlocked sex shops this month in Times Square. That's because most of the industry's money is made in suburban video stores. Almost as much is earned on cable-TV systems that make sexually explicit films available on pay-per-view and adult channels. Steve Hirsch, president of Los Angeles-based Vivid Video, the world's largest producer of adult films, dismisses the loss of Times Square: "We're not going to lose any customers...
...completely dismayed at the way Joshua Quittner showed an Internet success story in "Boogie Sites" [TECHWATCH, May 18] without reporting the consequent carnage. Quittner said of Scott Hirsch, proprietor of DoMeLive.com "It was easy to find customers--Hirsch just trolled Usenet for e-mail addresses." Quittner didn't mention what Hirsch leaves behind while building his business--the problem of unsolicited commercial e-mail, most commonly known as spam. Right now I have more than 1,000 spam messages in my e-mail In-box folder. Those of us who detest spam support the right of porn websites to exist...
...fell into online porn after discovering the glories of electronic direct marketing in the contact-lens business. "We were selling $1 million a year online," says Hirsch, "and I thought, if we're doing this well with contact lenses, imagine what we could do with adult entertainment." It was easy to find customers--Hirsch just trolled Usenet for e-mail addresses. And it was easier still to find women to work in his facility. Most are former exotic dancers who were sick of the daily bump and grind and find the frictionless economy of the Internet a welcome relief...
...Internet-savvy guy, Hirsch is building his empire by encouraging other websites to be portals to his peep shows; referrers get a third of the gate. But it's a tough, competitive business. Hirsch figures there are at least five other companies like his selling one-on-one Net strip shows. How long will the appetite for cybersex last? "I figure we've got only 15% to 20% of our potential users online," he said. "The Internet is going to take off more than anyone will believe." That is, if there's anything left to take...