Maybe. But then again, the "viewership density graph" mentioned by GP, as well as animated previews when hovering over a movie thumbnail, or image previews when you hover over the timeline, or labels on the timeline that tell you what's happening at which point - those are all AFAIK innovations of the porn industry, that are still rarely seen elsewhere, and yet I'd classify them as purely delivering value to the user. In fact, I believe that a streaming service that doesn't implement these features is subpar and is not really designing a user-empowering interface.
Yeah I know that porn streaming videos websites were extremely ~progressists in terms of tech use. Things like youtube got previews years after the fact. But it saddens me twice that only porn websites are doing this u_u;
It does say something about social energy.. (and ~free market in a way). When people just want something, they can happen real fast and real cheap.
