Demand drives the market, it focuses on images people can't find in a magazine or video. Some wonder how much of this is available, a Carnegie Mellon study released last June showed that the Internet transmitted 917,410 sexually explicit pictures, films, or short stories over the 18 months of the study. Furthermore, illegal material other than pornography is making its way online. When companies such as Paramount and FOX realized they were loosing money because they were not online, they took action. They realized that people make money online just like they do on television.
Several people make fan pages with sound and video clips of their favorite television programs.
When companies heard of this, they wanted to do it themselves, and sell advertising positions on their pages like with television. If someone censored these pages for copyrighted material in the first place, neither the company nor the owner of the page would waste time and money in these legal matters. Now, the company can sue the owner of the page for copyright infringement. All this because some Star Trek fan wanted to share some sound clips with other fans. Most important, online pornography is easily accessible to minors.