We took all these data points and fed them into a database. Then we looked at how successful the films were, based on a variety of indicators, including the number of awards it received, how much money it made at the box office and how many people had voted for a particular film on the Internet Movie Database .
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One of the porn industrys major marketing tools for making that enormous profit is e-mail. And many of the e-mails they send are hitting the in-boxes of children and teens.Matthew Prince
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Online pornography is a billion-dollar per year industry. And e-mail is becoming the delivery system of choice for porn purveyors.
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For a lot of these people, it's not good business to be sending out this material to people who don't want to receive it. For legitimate companies out there, they want to keep this material out of the hands of young people. This provides a mechanism whereby they can do that.
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While the predictions are all in fun, there is extremely sophisticated math behind them. Of course, we wouldn't advise any studio execs to make decisions based only on our predictions. If a studio does buy one of the films we've predicted to be a hit, our engineers have told me they'd be happy to attend any acquisition parties to provide the irrefutable statistical data to backup the studio's decision.
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