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> age verification for any website that contains 33.3 percent or more pornographic material (a digression: we're seeing a strong opportunity here for sites featuring only 33.2 percent pornographic material).

So what they can just add a bunch of free content that isn't porn and get away with it? Seems like a poorly thought-out law.

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Many years ago, I worked next door to a porn shop. A very similar law was passed in our town that would have required the shop to move out to the middle of nowhere.

The owner bought a crate of enamel pins (this [1] kind of thing, but for long-forgotten social events) from some estate wholesaler, numbering maybe 15,000 distinct pins. He put it in front of the register and gave them inventory IDs as-needed when (if?) he sold one.

[1] https://i.etsystatic.com/25263485/r/il/04c3f8/3721109924/il_...

Nows the time for pornhub to open a category for videos about penetration testing.

I love how this is a thing(on another site) and that this topic illuminated it for me.

Thanks :D

Create some files of random numbers "for users that want to leverage those instead of running a local RNG" or some such. Text files (for counting percents), compressed (for local storage). Practically zero network costs.

Or offer to serve "a stream of 'y' answers" for the users who do not want to depend on running a local "yes" utility. Count size uncompressed. Compress with a special "char number_of_repeats" algorithm. I wonder if this is enough to go past the current politician class...

It might get past the politicians but judges in general are not a fan of this kind of "technical" workaround for the spirit of the law. Easier would be just to sponsor a you-tube like competitor/hosting service for video files, especially if the 33% is defined by space not access (if the politicals were smart it would be something like minutes of access time so they don't just get 68% of their SSDs filled with CSPAN).

How is "percentage content" calculated? By number of links? That's easy to game. By byte size? Pornhub would have to become YouTube to balance the amount of porn.

Click on this link to see a randomly generated video...

That's what I was thinking too. If the page lists 25 videos per page, have 8 of them be of the content they have, the rest consisting of Ads (makes more money), or "Get Me Outta Here" type links to Rick Roll type videos.

Pornhub would have to become YouTube to balance the amount of porn.

Ya know, with the recent youtube crackdowns on profanity that might not be a bad move for them. They could create a new site as a youtube competitor, that also has all the pornhub content. Just gradually allow the top X amount of pornhub content through as regular content gets added to make sure the percentage stays consistent. I wonder if that would be enough to let them have apps on the play store and roku and whatnot.

Could work in reverse, too. If you don’t like a particular BitTorrent indexer, submit enough torrents to pass that threshold and then take a screenshot.

Now, offering free hosting, if willing to sharelinkparts with a porn site.

Or a perfect business opportunity for Playboy!

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