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Yet, just a couple of years earlier, Hoover's [owned by D&B] reported that only 1.2% of all sites were hosting and delivering such content. They estimated at that time that these 1.2% collected an annual $2.6B out a slightly less than $6B online internet service/content delivery market. The report is available from Hoover's [at least it was within the last month] for about $1500US. The abstract for the article, which is free, has the numbers mentioned above, however.

I wonder if the same unit for "site" is used in both studies, e.g., a single domain might have multiple topic areas with separate logins and I wonder if that is a site, or if the domain IP address is a "site". This is important in that if we are statistically comparing proverbial Garden-of-Eden "apples to apples", there appears to be a market diversification and commoditization and democratization, while the total market cap has not really changed.

"Pornography" [loose definition] has been around since before the scribing on the walls of Pompeii, and, remembering that market demand tends to drive need for services, it is significant if that market is over 2,500 years old.

That would be at least as old as Aristotle's hierarchical system of nomenclature, which is still going strong, but not as long as the "world's oldest profession".

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